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Professional Language Preparation II - GAF268
Title: Professional Language Preparation II
Guaranteed by: Section of Foreign Languages (16-16250)
Faculty: Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové
Actual: from 2025 to 2025
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 2
Examination process: winter s.:
summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/28, C [HS]
summer s.:0/28, C [HS]
Capacity: winter:unknown / 56 (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Explanation: (2.ročník F,ZBP,ZBK)
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Zuzana Novická
Comes under: 2.ročník 2025/26 Pharmacy (EN19)
Annotation -
Within the subject Professional language preparation, there is a course of the Czech language for Foreigners designed to the foreign students whose native language is not Czech and who study the programme of Pharmacy in English. Czech Language course is optional but passing the examination in Czech Language is compulsory. The course of the Czech language takes 4 semesters. Students can register for the courses of Czech Language only for the whole academic year, it means for both semesters in the 1st and/or both semesters of the 2nd section of study. The achieved language competence is the first step to be able to communicate, read, write and translate texts in the Czech language before they start learning the basics of Medical and Pharmaceutical Czech. Is it essential that the students successfully complete the course till the end of the 3rd year of study. Students practise exercises on the basic lexical items, grammar, phrases, new thematical topics, synonyms, oral communication, reading comprehension and translation of short texts from different areas of life. The course focuses on the use of real communicative situations to systematically develop all the language skills, both passive (reading and listening comprehension) and active (writing and speaking). At the end of the course students should be able to manage basic communicative situations and to understand written texts in Czech.
Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (22.09.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Study programme:  Pharmacy

Czech Language is optional but passing the examination in Czech Language is compulsory and is taken at the end of the fourth semester in the second year of study or any time during the third year of study. Duration of the course is 4 semesters. Students can register for the courses of Czech Language only for the whole year, it means for both semesters in the 1st and/or both semesters of the 2nd section of study.

CREDIT REQUIREMENTS:

  1. Active seminar attendance (80%)
  2. Active home preparation for the seminars
  3. Pass successfully (70%) written credit test (grammar, word order, conjugation, declination, phrases, vocabulary and idioms, translation, reading and writing comprehension)
Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (22.09.2025)
Literature -

Obligatory:

  • Holá, Lída, Bořilová, Pavla. Čeština expres 1 : [úroveň] A1/1 : [anglická verze]. Praha: Akropolis, 2011, 96 s. ISBN 978-80-87481-22-6.

  • Holá, Lída, Bořilová, Pavla. Čeština expres 2 : [úroveň] A1/2 : [anglická verze]. Praha 4: Akropolis, 2011, 96 s. ISBN 978-80-87481-26-4.

Recommended:

  • Holá, Lída, Bořilová, Pavla. Czech express 3. Praha: Akropolis, 2014, 106 s. ISBN 978-80-7470-032-3.

  • Holá, Lída, Bořilová, Pavla. Česká gramatika v kostce. Praha: Akropolis (Filip Tomáš, 2010, 4 s. ISBN 978-80-87481-11-0.

Last update: prepocet_literatura.php (14.08.2025)
Teaching methods -

Seminar

Czech language for foreign students (Professional language preparation II) in the study programme Pharmacy is held in the third and fourth semester in the second section of study once a week for 2 lessons i.e. 90 minutes and the complete amount of lessons for this subject in the second section of study is 56 lessons.

Language skills (listening, text comprehension, vocabulary and vocabulary exercises, grammar exercises, spoken and written speech) are practiced in the seminars by available modern methods. Great emphasis is put on students' self-expression.

Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (19.09.2023)
Requirements to the exam -

Study programme:  Pharmacy

Czech Language is optional but passing the examination in Czech Language is compulsory and is taken at the end of the fourth semester in the second year of study or any time during the third year of study. Duration of the course is 4 semesters. Students can register for the courses of Czech Language only for the whole year, it means for both semesters in the 1st and/or both semesters of the 2nd section of study.

CREDIT REQUIREMENTS:

  1. Active seminar attendance (80%)
  2. Active home preparation for the seminars
  3. Pass successfully (70%) written credit test (grammar, word order, conjugation, declination, phrases, vocabulary and idioms, translation, reading and writing comprehension)

EXAM REQUIREMENTS:

Students will register for the term and take the oral exam with the teacher whose seminars they have attended.

Students who successfully passed four credit tests (two for Czech Language for Foreign Students I and two for Czech Language for Foreign Students II) will only take the oral part of the exam.

The oral exam is focused and based on reading a short abstract, answering questions to the reading comprehension, explaining grammar items (conjugation of verbs, declension of nouns, adjectives and pronouns, prepositions, aspect, tenses (present, past, future), conditional) vocabulary, and conversation.

Students who did not pass all of the four credit tests or did not attend the seminars will be obliged to take both the written and oral part of the exam.

The students will write a test checking their knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, reading comprehension.

For successful passing the test 70% is needed.

Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (31.08.2025)
Syllabus -

2nd Year, Winter Semester

 29. Unit 8 Planning time

 Future tense of perfect and imperfect verbs. Time expressions. Verbs jít, jet, letět. Prepositions do, na, k/ke.

 30. Unit 8

 Genitive and accusative forms after prepositions do and na.

 31. Unit 8

 Where are you? x Where are you going? Genitive, accusative and dative forms after prepositions do, na, k/ke. Preposition v/ve.

 32. Unit 8

Writing and e-mail. Planning a weekend. Revision.

33. Unit 9 House and flat

 Rooms in the house. At the real estate agency. Advertisements.

 34. Unit 9

 Furniture. Nominative and accusative forms of nouns in plural.

 35. Unit 9

 Shops and complaints. Expressions ten, ta, to x tenhle, tahle, tohle.

 36. Unit 10 Travelling

 Buying a ticket. Perfect and imperfect verbs of motion. Means of transport.

 37. Unit 10

 Verbs of motion with prefixes  při and od. Directions, prepositions z/ze – do, z/ze – na.

 38. Unit 10

 Flight schedule. Timetable. Taking the metro.

 39. Unit 10

Inviting a friend to visit. Revision

 40. Unit 11 Human body

 Vocabulary – parts of human body. Making an appointment with a doctor.

 41. Unit 11

 At the doctor´s. Accusative and dative pronouns. Expressions mít + illness and injury.

 42. Unit 11

 Can you help me? Urgencies and accidents. Revision

 

2nd Year Summer Semester

 43. Unit 12 Greetings and wishes

 Greetings and wishes opportunities. Interpunction. Writing an address.

 44. Unit 12

 Making a phone call. Reading and dictating phone numbers.

 45. Unit 12

 Dativ singular of proper and common nouns.

 46. Unit 12

 Pronouns kdo and co in nominative, dative, accusative and local.

 47. Unit 12

 Going to a visit. Vocabulary and phrases. Informal / colloquial expressions.

 48. Unit 13 At the hotel, sevices

 Booking a room. Spelling the name. Receptionist - customer conversation.

 49. Unit 13

 Types of accommodation and equipment. Accomodation advertisements.

 50. Unit 13

 Types of services. Vocabulary and phrases.

 51. Unit 13

 Services II. Ordering a service. What can I do for you?

 52. Unit 14 Jobs, CV

 Jobs. Types of schools. Advertisements.

 53. Unit 14

 Looking for a job. CV. Expressions kdy, odkdy, dokdy, jak dlouho.

 54. Unit 14

 What do you do? Vocabulary. Time expressions in accusative.

 55. Unit 14

 Expressions, už, ještě, potom, nejdřív, nakonec.

 56. Unit 14

 Living in the Czech Republic. Filling in a form. Application for long-term stay.

Revision

 

Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (22.09.2025)
Learning resources -
Learning outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  1. Communicate effectively in general Czech, both in spoken and written form, in everyday and professional contexts.
  2. Comprehend and analyze written texts, demonstrating an understanding of fundamental lexical features, grammatical structures, and phrases.
  3. Translate texts accurately between Czech and their native language, applying appropriate vocabulary and syntax.
  4. Engage in real-life conversations, using practical oral communication skills with confidence.
  5. Develop and refine language skills systematically, including reading, listening, writing, and speaking.
  6. Apply knowledge of synonyms, lexical structures, and grammar to enhance both passive and active language proficiency.
  7. Navigate essential communicative situations with confidence, using Czech in practical scenarios.
  8. Lay a strong foundation for continued language learning, enabling further linguistic and professional development.
  9. Talk about all the topics included in the syllabus for the 2 year of study (see the syllabus).
Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (23.03.2025)
 
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