Course Details

English Intermediate 2

Academic Year 2026/27

VYA009 course is part of 8 study plans

​ BKC-SIS Winter Semester 1st year

​ BKC-SIS Winter Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-SIS / SI Winter Semester 1st year

​ BPC-SIS / S Winter Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-SIS / K Winter Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-SIS / E Winter Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-SIS / M Winter Semester 2nd year

​ BPC-SIS / V Winter Semester 2nd year

The course is intended to develop students language skills at the intermediate level. Having completed the course, students will be able to:
generally understand information about familiar topics and situations, such as those met at work, in school, in free time etc., providing they are expressed in a clear and straightforward manner.
use English to communicate successfully in most situations encountered when travelling abroad.
create a simple coherent text within a simple context.
describe experiences and events, ambitions, hopes and plans, and to briefly explain or justify their ideas and statements.
successfully complete intermediate level grammar exercises.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Mgr. Veronika Rodriguezová

Institute

Institute of Social Sciences

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Students should be able to: use the past and present tenses in everyday situations; use future forms to discuss plans and to make appointments and predictions; use the present perfect to talk about their experiences; compare things using adjectives; use modals to express permission and obligation; use conditionals to speculate about what could happen in the future; use elementary passive forms; talk about relationships, family, housing, daily routines, food, education and work; ask questions and understand standard English related to familiar topics; manage functional transactions in shops, restaurants and while travelling abroad (e.g. attending language schools, checking information, apologising, requesting and asking permission etc.).

Aims

The goal of this course is to help students prepare for the BYA002 exam, which assesses whether students have reached Level B1 on the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) scale. The VYA009 course focuses on building basic technical vocabulary in the field of civil engineering through conversation exercises, text analysis, and communicative teaching methods.

Basic Literature

výukové materiály zpracované vyučujícími SPV FAST; dostupné ve fakultním moodle  (en)
English File Intermediate - Third Edition, Clive Oxenden and Christina Latham-Koenig, Oxford University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-451989-2 (en)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/306478

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Engineering jobs
  • 2. Studying at BUT
  • 3. Numbers and economics
  • 4. Tools and construction vehicles
  • 5. Everyday technology
  • 6. Building materials
  • 7. Structures and transport
  • 8. Housing and building construction
  • 9. Architecture and urban planning
  • 10. Water engineering
  • 11. Geodesy
  • 12. Revision
  • 13. Revision