ERASMUS - Czech for Foreigners - Beginners II - CERA0P0042

• Title: ERASMUS - Czech for Foreigners - Beginners II
• Guaranteed by: Department of Languages and Medical Terminology 3FM CU (12-UCJA)
• Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2013
• Semester: both
• Points: 5
• E-Credits: 5
• Hours per week, examination: 0/50, C(+Ex) [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc.

Annotation

Ten-week intensive Czech language course (Beginners level II) taught at the Language Department, Third Faculty of Medicine. The course is intended for the Erasmus students studying medicine or science at Charles University, Prague.

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (06.12.2024)

Aim of the course

The course aims at facilitating the students´ study in the Czech Republic at the Beginners level II (after having achieved some preceding basic knowledge of Czech). It focuses on pre-intermediate Czech Language for Foreigners - vocabulary, grammar, and communication skills. At the end of the course students will be able to make themselves understood in basic situations and also to master some vocabulary in the field of science and medicine . The course includes also some topics of historical and cultural background.

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (06.12.2024)

Course completion requirements

 

Written test on the topics covered in the course, held in the last week of instruction;

and an oral Colloquium in case the student´s home university may require the graded examination. 

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (06.12.2024)

Literature

 

TEACHING MATERIALS:
Štindl, O.: Easy Czech Elementary. Praha, Akronym 2008
Holá, L.: New Czech Step by Step. Praha, Akropolis 2004
www.lf3.cuni.cz/cestina

internal study materials

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (06.12.2024)

Teaching methods

practice

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (06.12.2024)

Syllabus

- Work - Telling time - Kdy, v kolik hodin, jak dlouho - Days of the week - Kdy/když, znát/vědět - Jobs - Modal verbs - Plural of nouns - Review - The locative
- Travelling - Adverbs of motion - Means of transport - Verbs of motion - Prepositions of motion and the genitive - Polite request - Phrases of public transport - In a taxi
- Characteristics - Colours - Jaký, který - Gender of nouns, ten, jeden and the adjectives - Adjectives and adverbs - Number 2 and the gender - Overview of the cases  - Special events
- Family - Expressions of time, prepositions of time, years - Jak/jaký/jako, conjunctions - This - Prepositions of position - Past participle-past tense of the third person - Possessive adjectives and pronouns - Irregular verbs -  Asking for personal data - Invitation - On a visit
- Request-acceptance or refusal - Questionnaire - Interview
- Talking about the future - Perfective and imperfective verbs - Months, seasons of the year - Až/když - Weather - Už/ještě - Future tense of imperfective/perfective verbs and verbs of motion - Review: Social phrases - Telephone conversation
- Likes and dislikes - Dative expressions - Human body -  Ad the doctor´s - Speaking about age, feelings, complaints. 

Last update: Přívratská Jana, doc. PhDr., CSc. (06.12.2024)