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2024/2025
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Czech for Foreigners - Beginners 3

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
04XCESZ3 Z 2 2S Czech
Relations:
The course 04XCESZZK can be graded only after the course 04XCESZ3 has been successfully completed.
Course guarantor:
Jana Kovářová
Lecturer:
Tutor:
Slavěna Brownová
Supervisor:
Department of Humanities and Languages
Synopsis:

The course further develops the language and communication competences acquired in the XCESZ1 and XCESZ2 courses. The teaching focuses on building up basic vocabulary, fixing correct pronunciation and deepening grammar, features through practice, as well as introducing the Czech culture. Students are asked to produce simple texts and they practise frequent types of dialogue. They also practise understanding texts in terms of main ideas or looking for specific details in texts. The course covers roughly lessons 5-7 in Čeština expres 1.

Requirements:

completion of XCESZ2

Syllabus of lectures:

time (hour, day, week)

date

modal verbs

rád dělat construction

past tense

verbs: znát, vědět, umět

prepositions: v, na, u, o

locative singular

Topics: When is it? When are we going to meet? What do you like doing?, famous Czechs, What did you do last night? Where were you? What happened? Where did you go on holiday?

Syllabus of tutorials:

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

Study Objective:

At the end of the 3-semester course, the students will have reached A1 (CEFR) approximately (depending on the student´s mother tongue).

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] HOLÁ, Lída, BOŘILOVÁ, Pavla. Čeština expres 1. Praha: Akropolis, 2015.

[2] BOCCOU KESTŘÁNKOVÁ, Marie, ŠTĚPÁNKOVÁ, Dagmar a VODIČKOVÁ, Katedřina. Čeština pro cizince: úroveň A1 a A2. Brno: Edika, 2020.

[3] http://prirucka.ujc.cas.cz/

Recommended references:

[4] REŠKOVÁ, Ivana, PINTAROVÁ, Magdalena. Communicative Czech: elementary Czech. Brno: I. Rešková, 2009.

[5] HRONOVÁ, Karla a HRON, Josef. Čeština pro cizince = Czech for foreigners: A1-A2, B1: mini/medium. Praha: Didakta, 2008.

Teaching aids:

language classroom, audivisuals

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:207
Brownová S.
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 2025-03-12
For updated information see http://bilakniha.cvut.cz/en/predmet7697706.html