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STUDY PLANS
2024/2025

Czech for Foreigners - Intermediate 3

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
04XCESM3 Z 2 0+2 Czech
Relations:
The course 04XCESMZK can be graded only after the course 04XCESM3 has been successfully completed.
Course guarantor:
Jana Kovářová
Lecturer:
Tutor:
Jana Kovářová
Supervisor:
Department of Humanities and Languages
Synopsis:

The last course revises morphological topics covered earlier and extends the student´s knowledge of more difficult language phenomena. It is especially focused on stylistics and lexicology and on developing the student´s writing skills.

Requirements:

competence at CESM2 level

Syllabus of lectures:

participles, passives, conditionals, forming clauses, adjectives.

Writing skills: informal writing and formal writing, a letter of application, C.V.

Telephoning

Listening comprehension

Texts: the environment, theory and practice, nuclear power engineering, nuclear waste, Heyrovský - the Nobel Prize winner, our faculty and its history, Bachelor´s Degree Course

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 passive voice, participles, conditionals, more difficult adjective declension, compound sentences, subordinate sentences, punctuation, formation of terms.

Skills:

To use adequately terms in writing and presenting a paper in the student´s branch, characterise the environment, inform about outstanding scientists, write fundamental formal texts when applying for a job or scholarship.

To qualify for CESM examination,

to reach CEFR B2 level extended to technical language.

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] O. Martincová, Pravidla českého pravopisu, Praha: Pansofia 2015

[2] J. Blažek, Čeština v kostce, Praha: Vera 1994

Recommended references:

[3] Mgr. Pavlíková, Czech for Foreigners 3, http://people.fjfi.cvut.cz/pavliiva

[4] Pražská technika, Technický týdeník - texts

Teaching aids:

language classroom, audiovisuals, PC lab

Note:
Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
roomTR:301
Kovářová J.
16:00–17:50
(parallel nr.101)
Trojanova 13
Wed
Thu
Fri
Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
Time-table is not available yet
The course is a part of the following study plans:
Data valid to 2024-11-21
For updated information see http://bilakniha.cvut.cz/en/predmet7251006.html