IAJk10 Qualifying Exam Preparation - AJ

Faculty of Education
Autumn 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/.7. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Petra Pašalov (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Jana Chocholatá, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Jana Chocholatá, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Prerequisites
IAJk08 Language Practice 2B - AJ && IAJk05 Grammar 2A - AJ && IAJk07 Phonetics and Phonology 2B - AJ
B2 according to SERRJ
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
If the system makes this impossible, please ask for an exception when the time comes. The aim of the course is to help students prepare for the upcoming Complex exam which tests their communicative competence in English at B2 (upper-intermediate) level in the form of a written test and oral examination. Students will practise the test taking skills and will be introduced to the particular parts of the complex exam test, i.e. cloze test, word formation and sentence tranformation, and listening and reading comprehension tests.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course students will have - understood and practised multiple times the particular format of the Complex exam test focusing on its individual parts (cloze test, word formation, sentence transformation and listening and reading comprehension); - understood and practised for the oral part of the exam (spoken production and spoken interaction); - taken a mock test.
Syllabus
Test taking skills: • cloze test • word formation • sentence transformation • reading comprehension • listening comprehension • comparing and contrasting pictures (spoken production) • agreeing with a partner (spoken interaction) • discussion on a general topic (housing, work, school, family, career, health, free time etc.) • written mock test • speaking mock test
Literature
  • Cambridge B2 First (FCE) Authentic Practice Tests 4. Student's Book with Answers and Audio Dowload. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. ISBN 9781108780148.
  • KENNY, Nick a LUQUE-MORTIMER, Lucrectia. Cambridge English First Practice Tests Plus 2 (New Edition) Student's Book with Key. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2015. ISBN 9781447966227.
  • ROGERS, Louis and Vanessa Reis ESTEVES. Etpedia : exams. Edited by John Hughes. First published. Hove: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd, 2018, 231 stran. ISBN 9781911028802. info
  • Cambridge first certificate in English : official examination papers from University of Cambridge ESOL examinations. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2008, 2 zvukové. ISBN 9780521714563. info
Teaching methods
Self-study based on the materials in moodlinka, in-class learning centres, group work, discussions
Assessment methods
Students will successfully complete all materials in their moodle course, which can be accessed repeatedly, will take active part in class and will sit for the mock test.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught every other week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
Teacher's information
https://moodlinka.ics.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=2832#section-0
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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