This textbook is designed to provide additional materials for students who major in a wide range of subjects which are taught at the Faculty of Education, University of Ostrava. The subject areas covered in this book include pedagogy, didactics, Czech literature and culture, British studies, vocational education, music education and many others. Students who take one or more of the English courses offered by the Department of English Language and Didactics, where the focus is on using a textbook at intermediate level, are the target group for the English Language Course 1 as the texts and assignments in this volume provide the students with new, tailor-made additional material for reading, speaking, grammar, vocabulary, and writing practice. The texts are adapted from contemporary publications by the English-speaking media.