ERASMUS - Czech for Foreigners - Beginners I - CERA0P0041

• Title: ERASMUS - Czech for Foreigners - Beginners I
• 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
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc.

Annotation

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (30.10.2019)

Ten-week intensive Czech language course (Beginners level) 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.

Aim of the course

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (30.10.2019)

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (10.02.2010)

The course aims at facilitating the very beginning of the students´ study in the Czech Republic. It focuses on elementary 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 (introducing oneself, asking for information, restaurant, shop, transport,etc.). The course includes also some topics of historical and cultural background.

Course completion requirements

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (30.10.2019)

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. 

Literature

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (30.05.2012)

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

Teaching methods

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practice

Syllabus

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1. Meeting people:

Vocabulary: Co/Kdo je to? (People, things), Tady/tam; Kde?Odkud?; Nationalities

Grammar: Personal pronouns and the present conjugation of to be

Communication: Meeting people; Formal/informal language; How are you?

Addressing people; use of academic titles

Other information: Czech Language and its study

2. Things

Vocabulary: Plural words, Adverbs of position, Numbers 0 - 10

Grammar: Negation of to be, Conjugation of verbs: 1st group, Accusative

Communication: Asking for information;

Other information: Charles University, The Third Faculty of Medicine, Department of Foreign Languages

3. Places

Vocabulary: Prepositions of location v/na , Places, Apartment, Numbers 11 - 19, jobs

Grammar: Locative, Conjugation of verbs: 2nd group; Plural of nouns (-y)

Communication: In a restaurant, On a visit, Telephone conversation, Prosím, Problems with yes and no, Problems in communication

Other information: Prague, Czech Republic

4. Daily routine

Vocabulary: Liking: rád/ráda/rádi + verbs, The time of day, Neither...nor..., Conjuctions,           Numbers 20 - 100

Grammar: Conjugation of verbs: 3rd group, Chtít, Reflexive verbs, Prefixes ně-and ni-

Communication: Hellos and Goodbye´s, Negative questions, Apologies, Jak se (to) řekne česky

Other information: public transport

5. Food and drink

Vocabulary: food and drink, Liking: Mít rád,  Numbers from 100, Kolik stojí...

Grammar: Conjugation of verbs: 4th group, Review: The accusative

Communication: I would like, In a shop, In a restaurant

Final Test: Colloquium

Other information:  Czech history and  Prague historical sites

Course completion requirements

Last update: doc. PhDr. Jana Přívratská, CSc. (30.10.2019)

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.