Course: Czech for Academic Purposes 4

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Course title Czech for Academic Purposes 4
Course code UJP/CAU4
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Svatoňová Iva, Mgr.
Course content
Week 1 Introduction to the course, familiarization with the curriculum and requirements for completion of the course. Biography, text work. Week 2 Time expressions, adverbs and prepositions. Week 3 Past tense - more difficult cases of grammatical agreement between the predicate and the subject. Week 4 Passive voice - revision, sentence transformations. Week 5 Inventors and discoverers. Text work. Week 6 Foreign proper names, spelling, pronunciation and declension. Week 7 Text work. Midterm test. Week 8 Aspect, aspect triads. Week 9 Word formation - verbal nouns. Week 10 Syntax - rule of the second position, more difficult cases. Week 11 Syntax - current sentence structure. Week 12 Revision of the course. Final test. Week 13 Test correction. Evaluation.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15) - 10 hours per semester
  • Preparation for formative assessments (2-20) - 4 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
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • unspecified - 10 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 30 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
- distinguish selected genres of scientific style (paper, presentation, scientific article, technical description, etc.
- distinguish annotation, abstract, summary and name their basic features
- distinguish the forms of secondary prepositions
- distinguish the forms of verbal nouns and adjectives
- distinguish the meanings of the most used prefixes and suffixes in Czech
- name the diacritics in Czech and describe their function, distinguish between the short and the long syllables and between the hard and soft consonants
- explain the basic rules of Czech spelling, writing i/í vs. y/ý after consonants (esp. after the soft and the hard ones)
- explain the basic rules of a sentence structure in Czech
Skills
- analyse selected genres of the scientific style based on their charateristic features
- write an annotation, an abstract and a summary of a selected scientific text
- actively use the most widely used secondary prepositions
- actively use the proper forms of verbal nouns and adjectives
- analyse a word from the point of view of word formation
- actively use the most widely used prefixes and suffixes in their proper meaning
- roperly use diacritics in written texts
- properly use the spelling of i/í vs. y/ý after consonants (esp. after the soft and the hard ones) in written texts
- make sentences in accordance with the basic rules of sentence clause structure in Czech
Competences
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
- name the idiomatic expressions used in announcments
- distinguish and briefly characterise the varieties of substandard Czech
- distinguish forms of perfective and imperfective verbs
- name the rules of the grammatical agreement between predicate and subject in the past tense
- name the most important events and personalities in Czech history
- distinguish the forms of more difficult nouns
- distinguish forms of passive voice
- list the basic rules of successful communication
- name the most widespread gestures used in Czech non-verbal communication
Skills
- write a message and an announcement
- properly use the linguistic means of both Standard and substandard Czech with respect to the communicative situation
- properly use forms of imperfective and perfective verbs with respect to their meaning
- properly use endings of the L-participle in the past tense in writing
- describe the most important events and personalities of Czech history and explain their importance
- properly use forms of passive voice (both with reflexive pronoun and passive participle)
- correctly interpret the most widespread gestures of Czech non-verbal communication, or even actively use them
Competences
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Multimedia supported teaching
Individual study
Collaborative instruction
E-learning
Practicum
Skills
Individual study
Discussion
Collaborative instruction
E-learning
Practicum
Competences
Practicum
E-learning
Collaborative instruction
Discussion
Individual study
Multimedia supported teaching
assessment methods
Knowledge
Continuous assessment
Individual presentation at a seminar
Seminar work
Test
Oral exam
Skills
Continuous assessment
Individual presentation at a seminar
Seminar work
Test
Oral exam
Skills demonstration during practicum
Competences
Oral exam
Test
Skills demonstration during practicum
Individual presentation at a seminar
Seminar work
Continuous assessment
Recommended literature
  • Adamović, Ana; Hrdlička, Milan. Basic Czech III. 1. vyd. Praha : Karolinum, 2010. ISBN 978-80-246-1796-1.
  • Bischofová, Jana; Hrdlička, Milan. Čeština pro středně a více pokročilé. Praha, 2011. ISBN 978-80-246-1793-0.
  • Hradilová, Dana. Czech it up! 4. Olomouc, 2020. ISBN 9788024457703.
  • Kestřánková, Marie; Hlínová, Kateřina; Pečený, Pavel; Štěpánková, D. Čeština pro cizince : úroveň B2. 1. vydání. 2013. ISBN 978-80-266-0178-4.
  • 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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