Course details

English for Bachelors - Intermediate 2

BAN4 Acad. year 2024/2025 Summer semester 3 credits

A standard course of English for intermediate students orientated on both general and technical English. An integrated approach is applied during teaching this course. After a grammar section with many tasks highlighting the new grammar, there is at least one activity for speaking, listening, reading and writing in every unit. There is a strong lexical component in the course. Technical texts are subject specific but the teacher's objective is teaching language, not subject knowledge.  

Guarantor

Sedláček Pavel, Mgr. (UJAZ)

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Credit+Examination (written+oral)

Time span

  • 26 hrs exercises

Assessment points

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

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Learning objectives

The course provides students not only with knowledge of general English, but also  with the vocabulary, grammar, and functions necessary to become operational in professional and social situations.
Students will be able to:

  • Use a wide range of vocabulary
  • Apply newly acquired knowledge of grammar
  • Understand, analyze, translate, paraphrase texts
  • Understand, analyze, translate, paraphrase listenings
  • Understand, follow and actively participate in simple conversations

Recommended prerequisites

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

To pass the BAN3 course or to acquire at least 41 points the entrance language test (instruction is in Czech only).

Recommended prerequisite: New Headway Intermediate 1

Fundamental literature

  • K. Harding and A. Lane - International Express Intermediate, 3rd Edition, Student´s Book OUP, Oxford University Press, 2014

Progress assessment

The course takes over 13 weeks in the form of language exercises. Attendance at seminars is compulsory (75 %). Absence must be properly apologized.

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Final exam:
30% - reading - evaluates and assesses the abilities to work with a written text, abilities to analyze, synthesize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the text.
30% - listening - evaluates and assesses the abilities to understand spoken English, abilities to analyze, synthesize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the listening. 

Course inclusion in study plans

  • Programme BIT, 1st year of study, Compulsory-Elective group A
  • Programme BIT (in English), 1st year of study, Compulsory-Elective group A
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