FCE 3

Lecturer:

Tutor:

Irena Petra Nováková (gar.)

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 1A new look Reading: Gapped text; Grammar: Present and Past habit; Vocabulary: Fashion

Week 2A new lookUse of English: Error correction, word transformation, Exam

focus; Vocabulary 2, 3; Listening: Exam focus; Speaking 1

Week 3A new lookGrammar: Participle clauses; Speaking: Stressing keyinformation; Writing: Report; Review

Week 4 Use your brainListening: Sentence completion; Error correction

Week 5 Use your brainGrammar: Obligation, necessity and permission; it si, there is,

Vocabulary: Expressions with mind; Reading: M-ch questions

Week 6Use your brainVocabulary: Education; Reading: Multiple matching;

Speaking: Exam focus; Writing: Article; Progress test 6 - 10

Week 7Hard at workSpeaking: Personality quiz; Listening: Exam focus;

Vocabulary: Employment; Grammar: Ability and possibility

Week 8Hard at workReading: Multiple matching; Grammar: Conditionals;

Vocabulary: Numbers and money

Week 9Hard at workListening: Multiple- choice; Open cloze; Speaking: Exam focus

Writing: Letter of application; Review

Week 10Strange but trueReading1; Writing: Making your writing more interesting;

Vocabulary: Crime and punishment; Speaking; Listening

Week 11Strange but trueGrammar: Passives; Listening: Song

Reading: Exam focus, gapped text

Week 12Strange but trueVocabulary: Nouns linked by of; Grammar: have/get sth

done; Multiple-choice cloze; Writing: Story; Review

Week 13Exam MaximizerRevision Lessons 9 - 12

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 9 - 12

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
Tue
Fri
Thu	roomZ2:B1-214 Nováková I. 07:30–09:00 (parallel nr.101) Zikova ulice Konzultačka K304
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
Tue
Fri
Thu	roomZ2:B1-214 Nováková I. 11:00–12:30 (parallel nr.101) Zikova ulice Konzultačka K304
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans: