Course details
Headway Pre-Intermediate 2/2
JH2 Acad. year 2005/2006 Summer semester 3 credits
The course is focused on the basic knowledge of grammar: tenses, time and conditional clauses, infinitive, reported statements, articles, etc. The students' ability to communicate in everyday situations is developed as well as writing of letters, CV and filling in forms. The students will work with technical texts to get acquainted with basic technical terminology.
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Time span
- 26 hrs exercises
Department
Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
The students' ability to communicate in everyday situations will be developed. They will master the basic grammatical structures and new vocabulary, both general and technical.
Learning objectives
The course for lower intermediate students is aimed at learning basic vocabulary and grammar and at developing the four language skills, reading, writing, speaking and listening. The students will learn basic technical terminology.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Successful passing the course JH2/1.
Syllabus of seminars
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Syllabus of numerical exercises
- People and animals, present continuous
- Life in cities, multi-word verbs
- Lifestyles, present simple
- School, have got, numbers and prices
- Facts and fiction, past tense, irregular verbs
- Stories, interviews, time expressions
- Shopping, articles, expressions of quantity
- Clothes, food, form, polite requests
- Plans and ambitions, verb patterns, future tense
- Description of people, adjectives, comparatives and superlatives
- Description of places, synonyms
- Biography, present perfect, adverbs
- Autumn semester test written
- Professions, have to, should
- Travelling, nouns, make and do
- Environment, conditional and time clauses
- 21 century, will
- The past, used to
- The role of women, question forms, question tags
- Media, passive
- Telephoning, word formation
- Relationships, past perfect, indirect statements
- Spring semester test written
Progress assessment
Semester test.
Controlled instruction
Progress tests.