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Web page:
https://moodle.fel.cvut.cz/courses/B0B04B21
Anotation:
This course is designed as a full-year, two semester preparation course for the university’s compulsory B2-level English Examination (Anglický jazyk B2 - zkouška - B0B04B2Z*). While the course is focused on helping students reach a level required to pass the B2-level English Examination (or improve their English for a higher mark), it also focuses more on the academic and technical vocabulary and grammar expected of students at the university level.
*NOTE: This exam is also used for determining an appropriate level of English for Erasmus / International Study.
Study targets:
It is recommended that students take both English Language B2-1 and English Language B2-2 prior to taking the B2-level English Examination, but it is not mandatory.
Content:
English Language B2-1 introduces students to academic-style vocabulary (including recognizing word forms: nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.), basic B2-level grammar concepts (e.g., prepositions, collocations, modal verbs and countable / uncountable nouns), as well as reading and listening skills. English Language B2-1 also aims to help students develop proper, university-level writing skills – particularly, how to write an academic-style text.
Course outlines:
In order to receive credit, students are to:
| 1) | | miss no more than 2 classes |
| 2) | | participate actively during class |
| 3) | | work independently on home assignments (it is expected that students will study for 3 hours per week – outside of class) |
| 4) | | hand in a written assignment |
| 5) | | pass two tests with at least a 65% average of the total points |
Exercises outline:
| 1) | | Week 1 MODULE ONE: Prepositions |
| 2) | | Week 2 MODULE TWO: Phrasal Verbs |
| 3) | | Week 3 MODULE THREE: Writing an Essay |
| 4) | | Week 4 MODULE FOUR: Reading: Cause & Effect Markers; Prepositions & Collocations |
| 5) | | Week 5 MODULE FIVE: Listening Exercise (Prepositions); Countable & Uncountable Nouns; Prefixes |
| 6) | | Week 6 MODULE SIX: Midterm Test |
| 7) | | Week 7 MODULE SEVEN: Reading for Detail |
| 8) | | Week 8 MODULE EIGHT: Listening Practice |
| 9) | | Week 9 MODULE NINE: Grammar / Vocabulary: Reporting Verbs |
| 10) | | Week 10 MODULE TEN: Conjunctions and Sentence Connectors |
| 11) | | Week 11 MODULE ELEVEN: -ic/ical Endings |
| 12) | | Week 12 MODULE TWELVE: Final Test |
| 13) | | Week 13 Spare week |
| 14) | | Week 14 Spare week |
Literature:
| 1) | | Hewings, M. (2012). Cambridge University Press. Cambridge Academic English: An Integrated skills course for |
| 2) | | EAP (English for Academic Purposes). Student’s Book. Upper - Intermediate. |
| 3) | | McCarthy, M. & O’Dell, F. (2008). Cambridge University Press. Academic Vocabulary in Use. |
| 4) | | Murphy, R. (2004). Cambridge University Press. English Grammar in Use. Intermediate. |
Requirements:
| A) | | This course is intended for students who have fulfilled their B1 klasikovaný zápočet requirement (it is highly recommended that students complete Anglický jazyk B1 - klasifikovaný zápočet - B0B04B1K, but it is not mandatory). |
| B) | | It is recommended that students take English Language B2-1 prior to taking English Language B2-2, but it is not mandatory. |
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Proposal and Realization: I. Halaška (K336), J. Novák (K336) |