Course Details
English Upper-Intermediate 3
Academic Year 2026/27
VYA004 course is part of 2 study plans
BKC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year
BPC-SIS / SI Summer Semester 1st year
Grammar: Revision of narrative tenses + used to and would, linkers, adverbs and adverbial expressions, inversion, distancing, unreal uses of past tenses, conditionals (including mixed conditionals), adjectives and prepositions. Vocabulary: Memories and summer jobs at a design office/abroad, work, history, reviews (films/books), work, history, reviews (films/books), expressions with the noun 'time', IT/software, money, addictions and obsessions, sounds and the human voice. Reading: Job adverts – a job I could do now/after graduating/my ideal job. Writing: Job application, CV and cover letter.
The content of the course is aimed at students who would benefit from studying and practicing B2 (higher Upper-Intermediate level) English with a native speaker, i.e. students who: wish to study abroad (e.g. with the Erasmus+ programme) or work abroad; want to prepare for the VYA013 (previously BY003) B2 level language exam (useful for Erasmus+); already speak English at a good Intermediate level and would like to improve; already speak English at an Upper Intermediate or Advanced level and would like to practice their English so as not to forget what they learned in previous years.
Credits
2 credits
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Semester
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
Entry Knowledge
This subject follows on from the subjects VYA010 and VYA011, which help students reach the lower B2 (Upper Intermediate) level according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) for languages. It would be beneficial to have taken the VYA010 and VYA011 courses before taking VYA004, but this is not a requirement.
Aims
Students will extend their language skills, vocabulary and grammar knowledge to the upper B2 (Upper Intermediate) level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) for languages established by the Council of Europe.
Basic Literature
Prerequisites
This subject follows on from the subjects VYA010 and VYA011, which help students reach the lower B2 (Upper Intermediate) level according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) for languages. It would be beneficial to have taken the VYA010 and VYA011 courses before taking VYA004, but this is not a requirement.
Offered to foreign students
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- Week 1: Memories; review of narrative tenses, including ‘used to’ and ‘would’
- Week 2: Work and motivation; my ideal job, work experience, first day of work/internship
- Week 3: CVs and cover letters; discourse markers 1 – linking ideas with words and phrases
- Week 4: History; discourse markers 2 – linking ideas with adverbs and adverbial phrases
- Week 5: Books, plays and films; reviews; adding emphasis through inversion
- Week 6: Multitasking and time management; distancing expressions
- Week 7: Expressions with the noun 'time'; IT/software
- Week 8: Internship ads, Erasmus+ application forms, traineeship agreement; communicating face-to-face with professors/supervisors
- Week 9: Money and happiness; unreal uses of past tenses
- Week 10: Conditionals – comprehensive overview, including mixed conditionals
- Week 11: Addictions and obsessions; adjectives and prepositions
- Week 12: Sounds and the human voice; speculation and deduction
- Week 13: Revision