English (Grammar Practices)

Course guarantor:

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 cant have, neednt 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 2024/2025:

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Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

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The course is a part of the following study plans: