English Language Department

English learning and teaching

The Department of English offers many kinds of extraordinary activities for students.

It is December 2022. This school year we have already welcomed a lot of interesting visitors - representatives of UNILINK, native speakers from English Focus, our former students who have introduced us their studies abroad. We are preparing for school competitions in English, we are going to visit Great Britain in spring and in summer, we are organising English courses with native speakers in cooperation with English Focus.

The teachers of English  Ms Jitka Stráská, Dagmar Tulisová, Eva Troubilová, Ilona Urbanová, Petra Stárková and Ladislav Výmola are proud of……

-          working on the EU project Erasmus+ We are the readers KA101 022 867 in 2017

-          the foundation of The Exam Centre for Cambridge exams YLE for young learners at the age of 11 to 15

-          the foundation of English Library after the winning of the main prize of 96 books in 5 levels of English. The competition was organized by the English  publishing house Macmillan and Prague Post Endowement with the contribution of our school to buy one set of adapted books every year

-           welcoming native speakers in lessons

-          students who have passed Cambridge exams in different levels

-          visiting theatre performances in English language in Pardubice, Žďár nad Sázavou and Prague

-          students who have won different competitions

-          meeting professor Martin Hilský, the best translator of William Shakespeare in The Czech Republic

-          organizing special events to celebrate The European Day of Languages to support the knowledge of other European languages

-          cooperating with schools in Poland and Slovenia in the e-twinning programme

-          cooperating with the secondary school Sagrado Corazón de Jesus in San Miguel del Monte in Argentina and Kuokkalan koulu in Jyvaskyla in Finland

-          visiting Great Britain and the U.S.A.

-          writing many reports from our trips, excursions and other activities on Bigy websites

-          giving students the oportunity to compete in many different competitions eg. Best in English, Juvenes Translatore, Competitions in English conversation

-          cooperating with many institutions which focus on supporting English language such as Oxford Publishing House and the Exam Centre of British Council

           of University in Jihlava

           PhDr. Jitka Stráská