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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
Czech language for PhD Students II - P834004
Title: Český jazyk pro studenty doktorského studia II
Guaranteed by: Department of Languages (834)
Faculty: Central University Departments of UCT Prague
Actual: from 2020
Semester: both
Points: 0
E-Credits: 0
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 0/0, other [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
can be fulfilled in the future
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: Gebeltová Ivana Mgr.
Annotation -
The aim of this course is to deeper the knowledge of the Czech language. Everyday language and some of its specifications will be taught as well as some frequently used phrases aimed at specific types of conversation themes (partnerships, search for a flat/house, travelling, being ill, work and interests). Emphasis will be laid on widening the word-stock and grammar phenomena necessary for discussing topics such as: food and restaurants, shopping, culture etc. The students will learn the way to ask and answer questions about more complex issues. Starting competences: A1 (possibly A2)
Last update: Fialová Jana (29.04.2020)
Literature -

A choice from the following books:

1.Czech Express 1 � Lída Holá, Akropolis 2007 (+CD)

2.Czech Express 2, Lída Holá, Pavla Bořilová, Akropolis 2011

3.New Czech Step by Step � Lída Holá, Akropolis 2004, 2005 (+CD)

4.New Czech Step by Step (Activity Book) � Lída Holá, Akropolis 2004, 2005

5.Various materials created by the tutor, including audio and video-materials.

Last update: Fialová Jana (29.04.2020)
Syllabus -

1.Revision of the basic forms in conjugation: present, past, future tense; Meeting one another (speaking about personal interests).

2.In a shop: Shopping for Food, shopping for clothes - vocabulary, aspect (dokonavý x nedokonavý vid: koupit/nakoupit x kupovat/nakupovat)

3.What have you been doing in the Czech Republic so far? - revision of past tense.

4.Partnerships: family arguments and disagreements, negation in a Czech sentence.

5.Buying presents for a partner, inviting partner to dinner, to a concert, to a gallery. - prepositions; widening the word-stock for a conversation in a restaurant.

6.Looking for a partner (advertisements: Lonely hearts); division: znát x vědět x umět; division: I love you x I like you.

7.Searching for an apartment/ a house: advertisement; the word-stock and abbreviations connected with this topic.

8.Planning a trip - future tense revision; Czech towns and sights.

9.Being ill - seeing a doctor; the Czech general pronoun "ono" - the word-stock connected (illnesses, medicaments).

10.Czech climate and weather - the function of the pronoun "ono".

11.Work: professions, responsibilities, duties, time schedule - vocabulary; present conditional

12.Travelling: holiday, countries - vocabulary, prepositions, future tense, present conditional revision

13.Online testing: practice.

14.Credit test.

Last update: Fialová Jana (29.04.2020)
Learning outcomes -

The students will be able to :

• speak on the phone

• fill in simple forms,questionnairies,etc.

• write simple letters and e-mails

• hold a conversation in a hotel and a shop, using all acquired language skills

• tell or retell a simple story

Last update: Fialová Jana (29.04.2020)
 
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