Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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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.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- 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
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prerequisite |
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Knowledge |
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- 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 |
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- 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 |
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N/A |
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learning outcomes |
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Knowledge |
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- 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 |
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- 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 |
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teaching methods |
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Knowledge |
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Multimedia supported teaching |
Individual study |
Collaborative instruction |
E-learning |
Practicum |
Skills |
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Individual study |
Discussion |
Collaborative instruction |
E-learning |
Practicum |
Competences |
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Practicum |
E-learning |
Collaborative instruction |
Discussion |
Individual study |
Multimedia supported teaching |
assessment methods |
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Knowledge |
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Continuous assessment |
Individual presentation at a seminar |
Seminar work |
Test |
Oral exam |
Skills |
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Continuous assessment |
Individual presentation at a seminar |
Seminar work |
Test |
Oral exam |
Skills demonstration during practicum |
Competences |
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Oral exam |
Test |
Skills demonstration during practicum |
Individual presentation at a seminar |
Seminar work |
Continuous assessment |
Recommended literature
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Adamović, Ana; Hrdlička, Milan. Basic Czech III. 1. vyd. Praha : Karolinum, 2010. ISBN 978-80-246-1796-1.
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Bischofová, Jana; Hrdlička, Milan. Čeština pro středně a více pokročilé. Praha, 2011. ISBN 978-80-246-1793-0.
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Hradilová, Dana. Czech it up! 4. Olomouc, 2020. ISBN 9788024457703.
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Kestřánková, Marie; Hlínová, Kateřina; Pečený, Pavel; Štěpánková, D. Čeština pro cizince : úroveň B2. 1. vydání. 2013. ISBN 978-80-266-0178-4.
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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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