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  • Introduction

    Welcome to the summer semester of English for Upper-intermediate students!

    The course consists of two parts: homework assignments, and online communicative seminars.
    • All work will be assigned through this course in Moodle. New work will be assigned each week.
    • Online communicative seminars will take place each weak. We will meet through MS Teams. Log in to your university account with sislogin@cuni.cz (using your SIS login or personal number, e.g. malaluci@cuni.cz or 90563145@cuni.cz). A manual for getting to MS Teams. It is preferable to have the app downloaded.

    This class is optional and is Pass/Fail. Passing a class gives you 5 bonus points for the obligatory departmental English exam (with a maximum of 20 points total allowed). For details see the department's website.

  • Week 1

    Deadline: 18.4.

    • Start with this exercise. It should remind you of what you already know about how to express future.
      If you have problems, consult the first slide of the presentation below.

    • With illustrations!

    • Do this after you look at the presentation.

  • Week 2

    Deadline: 25.4.

    • Vytvořit odpověď
    • ikona Soubor
      Listening - key Soubor
      Přístup je omezen následujícím způsobem - není dostupné, pokud není vše splněno: Činnost Listening je označena jako dokončená
    • Two more useful types of future: future perfect and future continuous.
      Please study the blue 'Active grammar' box on page 54. (If you need help, see the 'Reference page', p. 6, or the pdf page below.)

      Then do these practice exercises.

    • If you feel like you would like a more detailed explanation of what the tenses do, look at this page. It contains some lovely comparisons with other tenses too.

      (Murphy, R. (2019). English grammar in use with answers: A self-study reference and practice book for intermediate learners of English. Cambridge University Press.)

  • Week 3

    Deadline: 2.5.

    • Zobrazit Vytvořit odpověď

      Look at page 56 in the New Total English textbook.

      1. Decide which things in the box in 1 in exercise 1 you can see in the photos.
      2. Read the website and do exercise 2.
      3. Read the website again and complete exercise 3 (p. 57).

      Upload your answers - any format is possible, including photos or scans of your answers in the textbook.

      Then check your answers against the key below.

    • ikona Stránka
      Reading - KEY Stránka
      Přístup je omezen následujícím způsobem - není dostupné, pokud není vše splněno: Činnost Reading je označena jako dokončená
  • Week 4

    Deadline: 9.5.

    • A glimpse of how language actually works.

    • Answer after watching the presentation and doing the exercises above.
      This is in fact a survey.
      Answer truthfully. 

  • Week 5

    Deadline: 16.5.

    • Study pages 27, 28 in the small MFF textbook (Aj pro studenty MFF UK) if you need help.

    • Study page 29 in the MFF textbook and complete the following exercises.

    • This is just a joke to help you remember the name of the longest side of the triangle.

      Please look into the Oxford dictionary at this word: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hypotenuse?q=hypotenuse

      Listen to the pronunciation of the word. Try to repeat it a few times.

  • Week 6

    Deadline: 23.5.

  • Week 7

    Deadline: 30.5.

  • Week 8

    Deadline: 6.6.

  • Week 9

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  • Week 11

  • Week 12

  • Week 13

  • Week 14

  • Useful sources