English (Grammar Practices)

Garant předmětu:

Svatava Boboková Bartíková

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Svatava Boboková Bartíková, Věra Čermáková, Sandra Giormani, Hana Horká

Supervisor:

Department of Languages

Synopsis:

The tutorials summarise all grammar material at an intermediate level. Specific grammatical structures are explained in logical blocks.

Requirements:

No prerequisites

Syllabus of lectures:

This course is not a lecture but practical session:

Course code: 104XDAG

Duration: 2 hours / 1 semester

For more information see Outline and Syllabus of Exercises

Syllabus of tutorials:

B2 Grammar topics

These are topics you need to study to pass an exam at B2 level, such as Cambridge English First:

1)Tenses:

a)All the tenses you already know with extra emphasis on:

(1)Past perfect

(2)Past perfect continuous

b)Narrative tenses (i.e. how to use various tenses in context)!!

2)Future forms (not just tenses but other grammar structures)

a)Future tenses:

(1)Future continuous

(2)Future perfect

(3)Future perfect continuous

b)Other future forms:

(1)Will and going to, for prediction

3) Passives

a)Reported speech

4)Expressing condition

a)Mixed conditionals

b)Expressing wishes (future and past)

(1)Wish

(2)If only…

5)Modal verbs

(including different functions – i.e. permission, ability, request, recommendation, etc.)

a)Modals – can’t have, needn’t have

b)Modals of deduction and speculation

c)Would expressing habits, in the past

6)Relative clauses

7)Phrasal verbs, extended (make, take, put, etc.)

8)Adjectives and adverbs

Study Objective:

The aim of the course is to consolidate all the necessary grammar skills in the English language from a B2 level upward; to promote students' ability to use the acquired knowledge in practice

Study materials:

YULE, G., Oxford Practice Grammar Advanced, OUP 2015

R. MURTHY: English Grammar in Use, CUP, 2016

Note:

Further information:

http://departments.fsv.cvut.cz/k104/index.php/2018/09/19/gramaticka-cviceni/

Time-table for winter semester 2023/2024:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu	roomTH:B-156 10:00–11:50 (parallel nr.101) Thákurova 7 (budova FSv) B156
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2023/2024:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu	roomTH:B-261 12:00–13:50 (parallel nr.101) Thákurova 7 (budova FSv) B261
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: