Preparation Course for Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English

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Department of Biomedical Technology

Synopsis:

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Syllabus of lectures:

Syllabus of tutorials:

1.Getting to know you, meetings, job interview, fluent small talk, using a range of structure.

2. Formal letters, positive and negative connotations, language for complaining, phrasal verbs.

3. Writing report, an abstract, a summary. Relative clauses, cause and effect

4. Academic texts, word formation, participle clauses, metaphors and idioms, complex sentences, formal and informal language.

5. Lectures, the Passive, articles and determiners

6. Expressing opinions, agreeing and disagreeing, the infinitive, adverbials expressing opinions

7. Proposals, language of persuasion, multiple meanings, collocations

8. Competition entries, hypothesising, idioms.

9. Interpreting facts and figures, linking device, collocations.

10. Debates, gerunds and infinitives, collocations.

11. Instructions. Modals: may, might, can and could, prefixes and suffixes.

12. Describing objects, modals: must, should, ought to, shall, will, would. Positive and negative adjectives.

13. Final revision

14. Test

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Further information:

https://harm.fbmi.cvut.cz/B182/17VCAE/tut

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: