Course Details
English Upper-Intermediate 4
Academic Year 2024/25
VYA005 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
Wk 1 7A: General knowledge and learning motivation; prefixes
Wk2 7A: Modal verbs (permission, obligation and necessity)
Wk 3 7B: Verbs of the senses; colours and art
Wk 4 7B: Stress on important words; the oral part of the B2 level exam
Wk 5 8A: Medical situations and alternative medicine; similes
Wk6 8A: Gerunds and infinitives (complex look)
Wk 7 8B: Travel and tourism; homophones
Wk8 8B: Expressing future plans and arrangements (complex look)
Wk 9 9A: Giving opinions with adverbs; animals and nature
Wk10 9A: Ellipsis and substitution
Wk 11 9B: Nouns (compound and possessive forms); food and cooking
Wk 12 10A: Adding emphasis (cleft sentences); words often confused; emigration
Week 13: Revision/catching up/test