Syllabus
Week 1 - Unit 1: People and places - text All those years ago
Week 2 - Unit 1: People and places - narrative tenses, past verb forms with present or future meaning
Week 3 - Unit 2: Our environment - text Geologists press for recognition of Earth-changing "human epoch"
Week 4 - Unit 2: Our environment - future forms and time clauses
Week 5 - Unit 3: Language and culture - text The last lingua franca by Nicolas Ostler
Week 6 - Unit 3: Language and culture - focus and emphasis: cleft sentences
Week 7 - Unit 4: Family and relationships - text Lang Lang, the virtuoso Chinese pianist
Week 8 - Unit 4: Family and relationships - perfect aspect
Week 9 - Unit 5: Safety and danger - text Crowd control
Week 10 - Unit 5: Safety and danger - past modals: possibility, speculation, necessity, obligation
Week 11 - Unit 6: Health and lifestyle - text s. 63 (nemá titulek)
Week 12 - Unit 6: Health and lifestyle - defining and non-defining clauses, reduced clauses
Annotation
The aim of the course is to further develop the four basic language skills at the C1-C2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. This is the fifth stage of a six-semester course.
The teaching is based on systematic work with a course-book Cambridge English Proficiency Masterclass (OUP, 2012). There is a strong emphasis on accuracy, fluency, clarity and complexity of expression.