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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Week 1 Introductory class. Presentation of the course, familiarization with the curriculum and requirements for completing the course. Scientific style - basic characteristics, language patterns. Text work. Week 2 Rhetorical style: presentation. Rules and methods of presentation, its form and content. Week 3 Numbers and units. Declension of the counted subject. Week 4 Working with numbers, percentages, decimal numbers, chart and graph description. Week 5 Definition and its use. Relative clauses. Week 6 Terms and declension of words of foreign origin. Week 7 Pronunciation of international words. Midterm test. Week 8 Declension of words of foreign origin - revision and other phenomena. Week 9 Abbreviations and acronyms. Week 10 Work with scientific text, selected syntactic problems. Week 11 Scientific literature, university library and internet resources. Text formatting. Week 12 Revision. Final test. Week 13 Test correction. Evaluation.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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E-learning, Collaborative instruction, Instruction based on dialogue, Multimedia supported teaching, Individual study, Seminar, Practicum
- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 10 hours per semester
- E-learning (given by an e-learning course)
- 5 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15)
- 10 hours per semester
- Preparation for an examination (30-60)
- 30 hours per semester
- unspecified
- 10 hours per semester
- Preparation for formative assessments (2-20)
- 4 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| - name the principles for the preparation and presentation of a paper, and identify the most common errors |
| - name basic rules for writing essays and identify the most common errors |
| - name basic phenomena of the administrative style |
| - name the rules for writing a formal or informal letter |
| - identify the passive voice |
| - name the basic academic degrees and functions and distinguish their forms in the vocative case |
| - name various components of a university, identify their abbreviations |
| - identify the most common abbreviations and acronyms |
| - identify the basic forms of cardinal, ordinal and generic numerals |
| - identify expressions used to describe local relations and route description |
| - identify the forms of imperative |
| - identify the basic terms related to the organization of university studies |
| - identify the basic terms used in study regulations |
| Skills |
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| - prepare and present a paper on a well-known topic |
| - write an essay on a selected topic |
| - write a formal and informal letter with all particulars |
| - write a request, an apology |
| - correctly address the members of the academic community |
| - correctly use abbreviations and acronyms |
| - use all forms of numerals |
| - explain local relations, describe a route and ask for this information |
| - advise, instruct or forbid using the imperative |
| - search for, summarize and analyse information obtained by listening to a simple text related to student's life |
| - search for, summarize and analyse information obtained from a text related to university studies (description of the university and its components, organization of studies, organization of courses and conditions for their fulfilment, study regulations, etc.) |
| Competences |
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| - name the principles for the preparation and presentation of a paper, and identify the most common errors |
| - identify the forms of relative pronouns |
| - name the principles for formulating definitions |
| - name the basic features and language means of the formal style |
| - distinguish between interpretation and reflection essay |
| - identify words of foreign origin |
| - identify prepositions of cause and effect |
| - identify standard and substandard language means |
| - rozlišit základní druhy prepozic |
| Skills |
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| - prepare and present a paper on a well-known topic |
| - use the forms of relative pronouns |
| - formally define objects, people, events and activities |
| - describe activities related to user work on the computer, describe a working procedure with simple words |
| - analyse words of foreign origin in a spoken and written text |
| - use words of foreign origin correctly according to the grammatical rules of Czech |
| - analyse a text from the perspective of used language means and classify it as scientific or administrative text |
| - analyse the prepositions of cause and effect in a written and spoken text |
| - correctly name mathematical symbols, fractions and decimal numbers |
| - write down the main ideas of a spoken interpretation |
| - describe the numerical values shown in the graph or table |
| Competences |
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| N/A |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| E-learning |
| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Self-study of literature |
| Practicum |
| Collaborative instruction |
| Skills |
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| E-learning |
| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Individual study |
| Discussion |
| Collaborative instruction |
| Practicum |
| Competences |
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| E-learning |
| Self-study of literature |
| Collaborative instruction |
| Discussion |
| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Practicum |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Oral exam |
| Test |
| Seminar work |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Continuous assessment |
| Skills |
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| Oral exam |
| Test |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Seminar work |
| Continuous assessment |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Competences |
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| Oral exam |
| Test |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Seminar work |
| Continuous assessment |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
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Recommended literature
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Boccou Kestřánková, Marie; Hlínová, Kateřina; Pečený, Pavel; Štěpánková, Dagmar. Čeština pro cizince: úroveň B2. Brno, 2013. ISBN 978-80-266-1512-5.
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Hradilová, Dana. Czech it up! 4. Olomouc, 2020. ISBN 9788024457703.
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Kestřánková, Marie; Šnaidaufová, Gabriela; Kopicová, Kateřina. Čeština pro cizince : úroveň B1 : [vhodná pro všechny národnosti]. Vyd. 1. Brno : Computer Press, 2010. ISBN 978-80-251-3345-3.
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Kraus, Jiří a kol. Nový akademický slovník cizích slov A-Ž. Praha, 2005. ISBN 978-80-200-1351-4.
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