Czech for Foreigners - Advanced

Lecturer:

Ivana Pavlíková

Tutor:

Ivana Pavlíková

Supervisor:

Department of Languages

Synopsis:

This course extends the student´s knowledge obtained in CESP1 and focuses on difficult language phenomena. It trains working with technical and specialist texts placing greater emphasis on individual work.

Requirements:

competence at CESP1 level

Syllabus of lectures:

training orthography, morphology, syntax, and style at a higher level

essays on given topics - leisure, my studies

training writing skills - a paper, abstract, letters to teachers

training oral skills

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see sylabus

Syllabus of tutorials:

The course is run as a series of seminars following the topics and scope of the syllabus mentioned above.

Study Objective:

Knowledge:

Morphology, syntax, and lexis at the level appropriate to the course, particularly declension and orthography of words of foreign origin, capitalisation, terms, the structure of a paper and abstract.

Skills:

To write essays on topics of everyday life and more professional items, express correctly ideas, understand academic texts and write abstracts. Write short formal letters to faculty staff, institutions, offices.

To qualify for admission to the higher level course - CESP3, technical language.

Study materials:

Key references:

[1]Rules of Czech ortography

[2]N. Kloušová, Nový souboj s pravopisem, Trizona 1994

[3]Melichar, Styblík, Český jazyk SPN 2002

[4]Čmejrková, Daneš, Jak napsat odborný text, Leda 1999

Recommended references:

[5]I. Pavlíková, Čeština pro techniky

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Technical language - Pražská technika, Technický týdeník - texts

Teaching aids:

language classroom, audivisuals, PC lab

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

The course is a part of the following study plans: