DERZX03 Czech for Foreigners I

Theatre Faculty
Winter 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/2/2. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Michal Kubina (lecturer), Mgr. Petra Riou (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petra Riou
Theater without Borders Department – Dean’s Office – Theatre Faculty – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Supplier department: Theater without Borders Department – Dean’s Office – Theatre Faculty – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FORMA(Z)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
This course provides a basic outline of the Czech language today. The aim of the course is to enable students to understand both written and spoken language and for them to become active, competent users in everyday communication. Students will be introduced to the system of Czech grammar – grammatical gender of Czech nouns, questions, numerals, prepositions, declension, conjugation, present, past and future tenses of verbs. Knowledge will be practised in practical communication situations. Students will learn to use basic social phrases, talk about their family and its members, describe a person or a place, order in a restaurant; they will practise dialogues in a shop, at a railway station, at a post office, at the doctor’s, ask the way, make bookings on the phone, etc. Other topics can be included with respect to the needs and wishes of students.
Syllabus
  • • basic social phrases • describing a room, asking the way • family, description of a person • food, restaurants, shopping • culture, towns and cities, hotels • the human body, at the doctor’s • daily routine, days of the week, seasons of the year
Literature
  • Hola, L.: Czech Step by Step. Praha: Fragment 2001.
Teaching methods
work with texts
Assessment methods
final written test
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on course enrolment limitations: předmět je otevřen pouze studentům výměnných programů
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2015, Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024.
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