Course Details

English Pre-Intermediate 1

Academic Year 2026/27

VYA006 course is part of 2 study plans

​ BKC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year

​ BPC-SIS / SI Summer Semester 1st year

The course is intended to review and develop students´ language skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking) at the pre-intermediate level of general English.

Grammar: word order in questions, present simple and continuous, question words and adverbs, past simple and continuous, comparative and superlative adjectives, countable and uncountable nouns, indefinite pronouns, future forms, present perfect.


General Vocabulary: personal information, jobs, describing things and people, clothes, prepositions of place and time, travelling, paraphrasing, shopping, quantifiers.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Mgr. Věra Batystová

Institute

Institute of Social Sciences

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

Grammar and general vocabulary knowledge at the pre-intermediate level.

Aims

Students will command basic general English vocabulary, elementary grammar rules and they will be able to communicate in everyday situations.The target level according to the CEFR is A2-.

Basic Literature

LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina, OXENDEN, Clive. LAMBERT, Jerry. English File Pre-Intermediate Fourth Edition - Student´s Book. Oxford UP, 2024. (en)

Prerequisites

Grammar and general vocabulary knowledge at the pre-intermediate level.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/306483

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. 1A word order in question // common verb phrases
  • 2. 1B present simple // describing people, personality adjectives
  • 3. 1C present continuous // clothes, prepositions of place
  • 4. 2A past simple // holidays
  • 5. 2B past continuous // prepositions on, in, at
  • 6. 3A be going to // at the airport
  • 7. 3B present continuous for future arrangements // verbs with prepositions
  • 8. 3C relative clauses // paraphrasing
  • 9. 4A present perfect // housework
  • 10. 4B present perfect or past simple // shopping
  • 11. 5A + 5B comparatives and superlatives // describing a town
  • 12. 4C + 5C something, anything...; quantifiers // adjectives –ed/-ing; health
  • 13. 6A + 6B will // opposite verbs