The article concerns the course called English Language First taught at The Institute of Technology and Business. It concentrates mainly on innovations of the teaching which were recently held and still are in progress at The Institute of Technology and Business. The impulse of these innovations was mainly the need to innovate the learning outcomes. The learning outcomes were adjusted in a way to fulfil the requirements which are placed on a graduate of the professionally focused university. In the article, there is the information concerning the changes of the tuition, the individual changes which were introduced into teaching are described. These changes include so called pretesting, testing in the electronic form, the change of the study material and compulsory literature and the learning outcomes. The article points out the importance of language teaching and the necessity to increase the language competence of the students. The increased language competence then leads to the better chance to get an appropriate job position for the graduates of the professionally focused universities.