OPF:KCJK613 Cambridge First Certificate A - Course Information
KCJK613 Cambridge First Certificate A - 1st part
School of Business Administration in KarvinaSummer 2009
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/3/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jana Hejtmánková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Jana Hejtmánková, Ph.D.
Department of Tourism and Leisure Activities – School of Business Administration in Karvina - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Banking (programme OPF, B_HOSPOL)
- Hotel Industry (programme OPF, B6503GAHOT)
- Course objectives (in Czech)
- The aim of this advanced course is to bring students to an internationally recognised level of written and spoken English. Past experience has shown that it opens new opportunities to students in companies, teaching etc. because it shows that the student has reached a very high competence in general English.
- Syllabus (in Czech)
- 1. A sense of adventure
Picture discussion, Reading: words about travel(travel, journey, voyage or trip?) and feelings; travel games, multiple matching.
Use of English: diagnostic test of twelve parts of grammar; word formation, changing nouns to adjectives and vise-versa; how to form questions.
Listening,: giving instructions.
Composition transactional letter, the difference between a formal and informal letter; identifying beginnings, contents and endings of formal or informal letters; practice writing.
Revision and extension: word building (verb to noun).
2. Work and play
Picture discussion, Reading: words about work/employment; pronouns (e.g. it, she) demonstratives (e.g. this, that) and possessive adjectives (e.g. my, her) in a gapped text.
Use of English: present tenses
Composition (speech): welcoming and introducing.
Revision and extension, Listening test: Revision of units 1 and 2.
3. Nearest and dearest
Picture: discussion.
Use of English: making comparisons; comparative and superlatives; comparing families around the world;
Listening: note taking
Reading: The other Jackson; adjectives and their opposites.
Composition (describing an object): adjectival order.
Speaking: describing people and places
Revision and extension: units 1 to 3; (question formations, indirect questions, comparative structures, error correction.
4. Seeing is believing
Picture discussion. Speaking: picture prompts ( e.g. in the foreground, in the background).
Reading: inserting more information; When a computer error is a fatal mistake.
Listening: multiple matching of descriptions and occupations
Use of English: review of word forms; phrasal verbs (take ).
Composition (narrative): punctuation and layout of direct speech
Revision and extension, listening test: Revision of units 3 and 4
5. Extensive review of units 1 to 4 and practice tests of:
Reading, Writing; Use of English, Listening, and Speaking
- 1. A sense of adventure
- Literature
- required literature
- BURGESS, S. First Certificate Gold. London: Pearson Education Limited, Longman Group, 2000. info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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