Czech language 0

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Department of Languages

Synopsis:

The course is aimed towards ERASMUS students - especially beginners. The course is taught on the basis of English language support.

The goal of the course is to give the students first hand information about pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar structure of the Czech language, and also provide them with basic useful phrases needed for everyday communication during their stay in the Czech Republic.

Requirements:

A student is due to attend classes (75%), to work actively during classes and work on home assignments

Syllabus of lectures:

Week 1: Introduction, Czech pronunciation

Week 2: Conversation: Greetings and basic social phrases

Numbers and prices

Grammar: Personal pronouns, the verb TO BE

Questions and negation

Week 3: C: People, my family

G: Natural and grammatical gender, adjectives and pronouns

Week 4: C: Daily program

G: Telling time, making questions, models of verbal conjugation

Week 5: C: Likes and dislikes

G: Modal verbs

Week 6: C: Orientation, telephone calls

G: The locative singular

Standard and colloquial form of Czech

Week 7: C: In a restaurant

G: The accusative singular (nouns and pronouns)

Week 8: C: Likes and dislikes - once more

G: Verbs TO LIKE, TO HAVE, TO WANT

Week 9: C: Famous people

G: The past tense

Week 10: C: For the first time?

G: Second position in a Czech sentence

Adverbs expressing time

Week 11: C: Apartment/flat and house

G: Verbs + the accusative

Week 12: C: I have never seen any UFO?

G: Interrogative, indefinite and negative pronouns

Prepositions+ the accusative

Week 13: C: Free time

G: The future tense

Week 14: Revision, practicing?.

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Computer Science and Engineering (elective course, combined language and humanities course)