Course details
English for Bachelors - Intermediate 2
BAN4 Acad. year 2023/2024 Summer semester 3 credits
A standard course of English for intermediate students orientated on both general and technical English. An integrated approach is applied during teaching this course. After a grammar section with many tasks highlighting the new grammar, there is at least one activity for speaking, listening, reading and writing in every unit. There is a strong lexical component in the course. Technical texts are subject specific but the teacher's objective is teaching language, not subject knowledge.
Guarantor
Course coordinator
Language of instruction
Completion
Time span
- 26 hrs exercises
Assessment points
- 60 pts final exam
- 40 pts mid-term test
Department
Instructor
Learning objectives
The course provides students not only with knowledge of general English, but also with the vocabulary, grammar, and functions necessary to become operational in professional and social situations.
Students will be able to:
- Use a wide range of vocabulary
- Apply newly acquired knowledge of grammar
- Understand, analyze, translate, paraphrase texts
- Understand, analyze, translate, paraphrase listenings
- Understand, follow and actively participate in simple conversations
Why is the course taught
The course enables students to acquire professional vocabulary, language functions and language skills necessary for active participation in seminars, lectures and other activities in the information and communication technology sector.
Recommended prerequisites
- New Headway Intermediate 1 (BAN3)
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
To pass the BAN3 course or to acquire at least 41 points the entrance language test (instruction is in Czech only).
Recommended prerequisite: New Headway Intermediate 1
Fundamental literature
- K. Harding and A. Lane - International Express Intermediate, 3rd Edition, Student´s Book OUP, Oxford University Press, 2014
Progress assessment
The course takes over 13 weeks in the form of language exercises. Attendance at seminars is compulsory (75 %). Absence must be properly apologized.
The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.
Final exam:
30% - reading - evaluates and assesses the abilities to work with a written text, abilities to analyze, synthesize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the text.
30% - listening - evaluates and assesses the abilities to understand spoken English, abilities to analyze, synthesize, paraphrase, organize and reproduce information from the listening.
Exam prerequisites
75% attendance and active participation at classes, fulfilment of given assignments.<br>
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40% - semester test - evaluates the level of knowledge one has acquired during the semester.
Course inclusion in study plans
- Programme BIT, 1st year of study, Compulsory-Elective group A
- Programme BIT (in English), 1st year of study, Compulsory-Elective group A
- Programme IT-BC-3, field BIT, 1st year of study, Compulsory-Elective group A