Headway Pre-Intermediate 1

• 26 hrs exercises

• 60 pts final exam
• 40 pts mid-term test

The course for lower intermediate students is aimed at learning basic vocabulary and grammar and at developing the four language skills, reading, writing, speaking and listening. The students will learn the basic technical terminology.
The students' ability to communicate in everyday situations will be developed. They will master the basic grammatical structures and new vocabulary, both general and technical.

The course enables students to acquire professional vocabulary, language functions and language skills necessary for active participation in seminars, lectures and other activities in the information and communication technology sector.

Successful passing of beginner English, e.g. on a secondary school or to acquire "11 - 20" points in the entrance test (instruction is in Czech only).

• Murphy, R.: Essential Grammar in Use. With answers. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

• K.Harding and R.Appleby: International Express Pre-Intermediate. Third edition. Student´s book.OUP 2014

1. Unit 1: First meetings. Tenses, parts of speech, questions and social expressions.
2. Unit 2: The world of work. Present tenses-simple and continuous. Verb groups. Making contact.
3. Unit 2: Finishing-collocation, describing a company.
   Unit 3: Challenges. Past tense-explanation and exercises.
4. Unit 3: Finishing-past simple and past continuous, nouns, verbs and adjectives, making negatives, making connections. Sports and leisure file.
5. Unit 4: Plans and arrangements. Expressing future - exercises. Hotel file.
6. Unit 4: Finishing-words and symbols. Emails faxes and letters. Staying at a hotel. Units 1-4 revision.
7. Review Unit A: Units 1-4 revision.
8. Unit 5: How healthy is your lifestyle? Mass and count nouns, expressing quantity. Food file.
9. Unit 5: Word groups. Living in different environment-comparison of lifestyles. At a restaurant.
10. Unit 6: Flying gets cheaper. Comparative and superlative adjectives, synonyms and antonyms. Travelling.
11. Unit 6: Word groups, air travel file. Transformations.
12. Unit 6: Finishing-making arrangements. General revision.
13. Semester test.

Credit test: 24 - 40 points.

Examination:  

• listening comprehension: 15 - 30 points,
• reading comprehension: 15 - 30 points.

75% attendance, fulfilling the tasks.

Credit test: 24 - 40 points.
Examination:

• listening comprehension: 15 - 30 points,
• reading comprehension: 15 - 30 points.