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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Czech Language - GAF259
Title: Czech Language
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 / 96 (unknown)
summer:unknown / 56 (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: (F 1.r., 1.r.ZBP)
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Zuzana Novická
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 978-80-97481-26-4.

Recommended:

  • Holá, Lída, Bořilová, Pavla. Czech express 3. Praha: Akropolis, 2014, 106 s. ISBN 978-80-7470-032-3.
  • Holá, Lída. Česká gramatika v kostce. Praha: Akropolis, 2004, 4 s. ISBN 80-903417-5-6.

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

Seminar
Czech language for foreign students (Professional language preparation I) in the study programme Pharmacy is held in the first two semesters in the first section of study once a week for 2 lessons i.e. 90 minutes and the complete amount of lessons for this subject in the first 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.

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 -

Czech language for foreign students

 

1st Year, Winter Semester

 

  1. Unit 1 Let´s introduce ourselves

     Useful phrases. Pronunciation, alphabet. Who is it? What is it? Greetings.

     2. Unit 1

     Where are you from? What do you do for living? Formal/informal dialogues.

     3. Unit 1

     Personal pronouns. Conjugation of verbs in present tense: být, dělat.

     4. Unit 1

     Professions – masculine / feminine endings. Where is he/she from? What is his/her profession?

     5. Unit 2 Where is it?

     Numbers 1 – 10. Telephone dialogues. E-mail address. Revision.

     6. Unit 2

     Vocabulary of location. Gender. Substantives in nominative singular. Substantives in genitive singular.

     7. Unit 2

     Excuse me, where is…? Ways of transport in instrumental. Verbs jít x jet. Directions. Locations.

     8. Unit 2

     Verbs mluvit, vědět, vidět, muset, rozumět

    Numbers 10 – 100. Buying tickets. What is your address? Revision.

     9. Unit 3 Food and drink

     Vocabulary for food and drink. Gender. Menu.

    What do you like? At the restaurant. Accusative singular.

     10. Unit 3

    Conjugation of číst, pít, chtít, jíst, mít rád.

     11. Unit 3

     Numbers 100 – 10 000. How much is it? Revision.

     12. Unit 4 My Family

     Ema´s family. Family members. How old is he/she?

    Possessive pronouns. Genders. Verb jmenovat se.

     13. Unit 4

     Jaký/jaká/jaké. Adjectives. Gendre of adjectives.

     14. Unit 4

     Verbs pracovat, studovat. John´s family. Accusative singular. Revision.

     

    1st Year, Summer Semester

     15. Unit 5

    When? What time is it?

     Time expressions, parts of the day. What time is it?

     16. Unit 5

     Months of the year. Dates. Cultural calendar.

     17. Unit 5

     When are we to meet? Modal verbs chtít, moct, muset.

     18. Unit 5

     Everyday activities. Word order. Expression proč.

     19. Unit 5

     What do you like doing? Adverbs často, někdy, nikdy. Revision.

     20. Unit 6 Famous Czechs

     Past tense, regular and irregular -l forms. Years. Who was it?

     21. Unit 6

     Practicing past tense. Past tense of the verbs jít, jet, jíst.

     22. Unit 6

     Expressions nejdřív, pak/potom, nakonec.

     23. Unit 6

     What did you do yesterday? Position of the verb be in past tense sentences.

     24. Unit 6

     Verbs znát, vědět, umět. Quiz – Czech culture and history. Revision.

     25. Unit 7

     Prepositions v, na, u in local and genitive. Where were you at the weekend?

     26. Unit 7

     Countries. Weather. Seasons of the year.

     27. Unit 7

     Where were you on holiday? Describe your holiday.

     28. Unit 7

     Verbs mluvit, povídat si, slyšet, číst with the preposition o + local. 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 1 year of study (see the syllabus).
Last update: Novická Zuzana, Mgr. (31.08.2025)
 
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