Description:

The course is aimed at doctoral students, students in English programmes and ERASMUS students who have already passed the beginner course under AE0B04C0 code or already have the basic knowledge of Czech who want to further develop their knowledge of the Czech language. The aim of the course is to strengthen and develop elementary vocabulary and the idea of Czech language structure with regard to the needs of students during their stay in the Czech Republic.

The course is taught in English.

Contents:

WEEK 01: Introduction, practice, revision, verb tenses; Conversation (C): Human body
WEEK 02: C: Studies at FEE; Grammar (G): Plurals of nouns
WEEK 03: C: Travelling; G: The Genitive case; Prepositions of place
WEEK 04: C: At the office; G: Partitive genitive; Possessives
WEEK 05: C: At the doctor's; G: Perfective and imperfective verbs
WEEK 06: C: Show me the way! ; G: The Locative case, prepositions with locative
WEEK 07: C: The C. V.; G: The Conditional
WEEK 08: C. What would happen if....; G. The Conditional
WEEK 09: C: Electrical Engineering; G: Adjectives and adverbs; the comparatives and superlatives of adjectives
WEEK 10: C: Communication - letters, e-mails, SMS messages; G: The Dative case
WEEK 11: C: Computers; G. The Dative case, prepositions with the dative
WEEK 12: C: Relationships; G: The Instrumental case, preposition s/se
WEEK 13: C: Instructions; G: The Imperative, the vocative case
WEEK 14: Revision, Reserve week

Seminar contents:

WEEK 01: Introduction, practice, revision, verb tenses; Conversation (C): Human body
WEEK 02: C: Studies at FEE; Grammar (G): Plurals of nouns
WEEK 03: C: Travelling; G: The Genitive case; Prepositions of place
WEEK 04: C: At the office; G: Partitive genitive; Possessives
WEEK 05: C: At the doctor's; G: Perfective and imperfective verbs
WEEK 06: C: Show me the way! ; G: The Locative case, prepositions with locative
WEEK 07: C: The C. V.; G: The Conditional
WEEK 08: C. What would happen if....; G. The Conditional
WEEK 09: C: Electrical Engineering; G: Adjectives and adverbs; the comparatives and superlatives of adjectives
WEEK 10: C: Communication - letters, e-mails, SMS messages; G: The Dative case
WEEK 11: C: Computers; G. The Dative case, prepositions with the dative
WEEK 12: C: Relationships; G: The Instrumental case, preposition s/se
WEEK 13: C: Instructions; G: The Imperative, the vocative case
WEEK 14: Revision, Reserve week

Recommended literature:

L. Holá: Czech Step by Step 1, Akropolis 2016

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar