Course Details
English Upper-Intermediate 1
Academic Year 2024/25
VYA010 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: Introducing yourself; indirect questions for politeness
Week 2: My university and faculty, my study programme; talking about the semester, timetables and the exam period; getting around a campus
Week 3: Accidents and illnesses, first aid; present perfect simple for news, experience and achievements
Week 4: Clothes vocabulary and related idioms; present perfect simple and continuous
Week 5: Youth subcultures and clothes; adjective word order
Week 6: Air travel; adjectives as nouns in the context of stereotypes concerning nationalities and groups of people
Week 7: Narrative tenses, including past perfect simple and continuous
Week 8: Studying abroad; comparing study programmes and student life here and at a foreign university; my favourite course / the university where I would like to go on Erasmus
Week 9: The weather; predicting the future with the future continuous and future perfect
Week 10: Taking risks; feelings; real conditionals and time clauses
Week 11: The Erasmus+ application process; successful formal email communication with teachers
Week 12: Survival in dangerous situations; unreal, theoretical conditionals
Week 13: Revision and credit test