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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Foreign language - English IV - OPMN0A193B
Title: Foreign language – English IV
Guaranteed by: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury (41-KAJL)
Faculty: Faculty of Education
Actual: from 2023
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 100 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. Kristýna Červinková Poesová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Veronika Gajdošíková
Pre-requisite : OPMN0A189B
Is pre-requisite for: OPMN0A198B
Is interchangeable with: OKMN0A193B
Annotation -
This course systematically develops students´ oral, listening, reading and writing skills as well as grammar and vocabulary. The overall aim is to help students become more confident and fluent users of the English language. The course is offered in two language levels, pre-intermediate and intermediate.
Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (28.01.2026)
Aim of the course -
The aim of the course is to develop students' communicative competence and improve their anticipated language level (from A1/A2 to A1+/A2+ for the lower level and to B1+ for the higher language level).
Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (28.01.2026)
Descriptors - Czech

přímá výuka (24 hodin), plnění průběžných úkolů (16 hodin), příprava na zkoušku (20 hodin)

Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (28.01.2026)
Course completion requirements -

80% attendance, active participation

Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (28.01.2026)
Literature -

Obligatory literature:

All Levels

Betáková, Lucie. Angličtina Učitele Angličtiny. Nakladatelství Fraus, 2006.

B1 level

Claire, Antonia & JJ Wilson. Speakout 3rd Edition B1.Pearson Education Limited, 2022.

  • Student's Book and Ebook with Online Practice

B1+ level

Richardson, Anna. Speakout B1+. Pearson Education Limited, 2022.

  • Student's Book and Ebook with Online Practice

B2 level

Claire, Antonia & JJ Wilson. Speakout 3rd Edition B2.Pearson Education Limited, 2022.

  • Student's Book and Ebook with Online Practice

 B2+ Level

Warwick Lindsay & Sheila Dignen. Speakout B2+. Pearson Education Limited, 2022.

  • Student's Book and Ebook with Online Practice

Recommended literature:

AYTO, J. Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms. Oxford: OUP, 2010 (3rd ed.). ISBN 978-0-19-431287-5.

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. 8th ed. Oxford: OUP ELT, 2010. ISBN 0194799123.

Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English. Oxford: OUP, 2009. ISBN 978 0 19 4325387.

McCARTHY, M.; O’DELL, F. English Collocations in Use. Cambridge: CUP, 2005. ISBN-10 0-521-60378-1.

Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English. Oxford: OUP, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-433350-4.

SWAN, M. Practical English Usage. Oxford: OUP, 2005. ISBN-13: 978-0194420983.

www.oup.com/elt/insight

www.bbc.com
www.usatoday.comwww.independent.co.uk

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/

http://www.helpforenglish.cz/

Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (28.01.2026)
Requirements to the exam -

The course will cover each of the following 6 areas, and in the final exam, each one carries a mark of up to 20%.

These areas are:

  • Use of English (grammar and vocabulary covered in the course)
  • Classroom English
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Writing (100-150 words)
  • Speaking (topics specified in class)

 

A final mark of at least 65% is required for a PASS.

In the event of a fail, the students will be offered two more opportunities to take the exam.

 

Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (28.01.2026)
Syllabus -

B1

Week 1: Good tourists

Week 2: Good tourists

Week 3: Globetrotters

Week 4: Globetrotters

Week 5: You must see

Week 6: Go solo?

Week 7: Doers and Dreamers

Week 8: Video everywhere

Week 9: Help!

Week 10: A Gifted Learner

Week 11: The Young Language Learner 

Week 12: Semester recap

B1+

Week 1: Mix-up

Week 2: Mix-up

Week 3: Oversharing

Week 4: Conversation Savers

Week 5: A Good Communicator

Week 6: Wise Words

Week 7: Life Lessons

Week 8: One Thing I Know...

Week 9: Dragons' Den

Week 10: The Young Language Learner

Week 11: Semester recap

B2

Week 1: An unexpected passion

Week 2: An unexpected passion

Week 3: I wish!

Week 4: I wish!

Week 5: Let me explain

Week 6: Hard work or talent?

Week 7: A new way of living

Week 8: If the world...

Week 9: Online communities

Week 10: Second Shot

Week 11: The Young Language Learner

Week 12: Semester Recap

B2+

Week 1: The Word on the Street

Week 2: The Word on the Street

Week 3: Food Fads

Week 4: Pre-loved

Week 5: Past and Present

Week 6: Dystopias and Utopias

Week 7: The Science We Need

Week 8: Spend or Save?

Week 9: Science Fiction

Week 10: The Young Language Learner

Week 11: Semester recap

Last update: Gajdošíková Veronika, Mgr. (28.01.2026)
 
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