Course Details

English Upper-Intermediate 1

Academic Year 2025/26

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