Course Details
English Upper-Intermediate 3
Academic Year 2024/25
VYA004 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech, English
Credits
2 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Offered to foreign students
To offer to students of all faculties
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