FCE 1

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Irena Petra Nováková (gar.), Alena Havlíčková, Jitka Procházková

Supervisor:

Department of Languages

Synopsis:

The course is aimed for students, employees of the Faculty and the public whose knowledge of English corresponds to B1 level according to the European Language Frame.

The course focuses on improving all language skills - writing, speaking, reading, listening, grammar and phonetics - and is submitted to the goal of obtaining the required skills needed for B2 ELF.

Requirements:

Requirements:

Students are expected to attend classes, work actively during lessons and prepare independently their home assignments, including essays.

They are due to take the final credit test test and get at least 60% of total points.

Other requirements will be specified in detail by the teacher during the first lesson of the term. The teacher is allowed to supplement or change his/her requirements or programme of the lessons.

Syllabus of lectures:

Week 1What?s on?Grammar: Simple tenses; Vocabulary ; Speaking: Films

Listening and reading comprehension

Week 2What?s on?Reading and listening comprehension

Present Perfect; Word formation

Week 3What?s on?Word transformation, Writing: Informal letters; Review

Week 4Worth the risk?Reading: Multiple choice questions; Grammar: Comparisons

Speaking: Risk taking; Listening : T or F

Week 5 Worth the risk?Word Formation; Reading: Exam focus; Articles; Comparing and contrasting

Week 6Worth the risk?Writing: Formal Letters; Review

Week 7Fact or fiction?Using a dicitionary; Reading: Gapped text; Grammar: like, as, as if/though; Adverbs; Asking for and reacting to opinions

Week 8Fact or fiction?Listening; Use of English: Exam focus; Vocabulary: Modifiers;

Grammar: Narrative tenses

Week 9Fact or fiction?Writing: Story; Review

Week 10Food for thought Vocabulary: Food, prepositions;

Listening: Sentence completion; Reading: Exam focus

Week 11 Food for thoughtGrammar: Countable and uncountable nouns; Future forms;

Reading: Gapped text; Vocabulary: Body and health; Speaking

Week 12Food for thoughtUse of English: Open cloze; Writing: Article; Review

Week 13Exam MaximizerRevision Lessons 1 - 4

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Course objective: The course focuses on developing and practising language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing).

Study materials:

Materials:Newbrook, Jacky; Wilson, Judith; Acklam, Richard

New First Certificate GOLD Coursebook (Longman, 2007)Unit 1 - 4

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

	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	roomZ2:B1-214 Nováková I. 12:45–14:15 (parallel nr.101) Zikova ulice Konzultačka K304
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

	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	roomZ2:B1-354 Nováková I. 12:45–14:15 (parallel nr.101) Zikova ulice Konzultacka K304
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: