KCJ608 Cambridge Advanced English Examination Preparation

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Winter 2006
Extent and Intensity
0/4/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Guaranteed by
Department of Tourism and Leisure Activities – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives (in Czech)
This course follows on from the Cambridge First Certificate and brings students to a more advanced level in all the skills. This is also an internationally recognised qualification giving a great opportunity to students wishing to excel in teaching, international business etc. at higher level then First Certificate.
Syllabus (in Czech)
  • Struktura výkladu:
    1. The World of Doublespeak
    2. Health and Safety at work
    3. Body Language
    4. Introduction to gapped texts
    5. Multiple-choice questions
    6. Multiple matching
    7. Gapped text: The Ups and Downs of the music business
    8. Multiply matching: Go for it !
    9. Multiple matching: Going back to their roots
    10. Gapped text: Fashion Compassion
    Obsah kurzu:
    1. The World of Doublespeak: introduction to speed reading, vocabulary comprehension
    Word building: adjectives and nouns, compound adjectives, words with similar meanings
    Phrasal verbs: informal/formal register
    Overview of grammar covered unites
    2. Health and Safety at work: matching headings, use of informal it
    Confusing words: stimulant, stimulus, treat, cure, heal
    Informal letter
    Modals and meanings, modal and the perfect infinitive, use of need, negative forms
    3. Body Language: vocabulary comprehension, eliminating options, finding relevant parts of a text
    Confusing words: staid, rebellious
    Zero conditional, first conditional and second conditional
    4. Introduction to gapped texts: vocabulary comprehension, sequencing, referencing
    Phrasal verbs with up and ourTenses in accounts and narratives, past perfect and simple past, used for, used to be, get used to, would
    5. Multiple-choice questions: A Band of Gold
    Adjectives and adverbs to describe lifestyle, expressions to do with weather, suffixes
    Direct and reported speech, constructions after reporting verbs, adverbs and reporting verbs
    6. Multiple matching: The List -vocabulary comprehension
    Order of adjectives: writing and descriptive phrases, adverbs used to intensify adjectives, adverbs used to introduce/specify information
    Will and going to, present continuous, simple present, future continuous, simple future, about to and on the verge of
    7. Gapped text: The Ups and Downs of the music business-identifying content links, vocabulary comprehension
    Phrasal verbs with up and out
    Wishes and regrets, miss, if only
    8. Multiply matching: Go for it !- matching headings, matching statements, use of cohesive devices
    Collocations, confusing words: words related to travel
    Defining and non-defining relative clauses, noun clauses, adverb clauses
    9. Multiple matching: Going back to their roots-identifying topics, style features of a magazine newspaper, organisation of an article
    Forceful language, confusing words, phrasal verbs with off and down
    Present perfect vs. simple past, present perfect simple vs. continuous, for, since, long, yet, still, future perfect simple and continuous
    10. Gapped text: Fashion Compassion- identifying content links, vocabulary comprehension, metaphorical language
    Phrasal verbs with on
    Gerunds, present participle, infinitive vs. present participle, gerunds and infinitives

Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 1990, Summer 1991, Winter 1991, Summer 1992, Winter 1992, Summer 1993, Winter 1993, Summer 1994, Winter 1994, Summer 1995, Winter 1995, Summer 1996, Winter 1996, Summer 1997, Winter 1997, Summer 1998, Winter 1998, Summer 1999, Winter 1999, Summer 2000, Winter 2000, Summer 2001, Winter 2001, Summer 2002, Winter 2002, Summer 2003, Winter 2003, Summer 2004, Winter 2004, Summer 2005, Winter 2005, Summer 2006, Summer 2007.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2006, recent)
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