aVLCJ0484 Czech Language for Foreigners IV - practice

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Radka Campbell (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Eva Kozáková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Maria Možná (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Martin Punčochář (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Ivana Rešková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jarmila Šafránková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Veronika Dvořáčková, Ph.D. (assistant)
PhDr. Jana Vyorálková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Ivana Rešková, Ph.D.
Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: PhDr. Ivana Rešková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Language Centre
Prerequisites
aVLCJ0383 Czech for Foreigners III
General Czech at the A2/B1 CEFR level. The knowledge of specialist discipline-specific vocabulary covered in the aVLCJ0383 course.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the tuition is working knowledge of the Czech language on the A2/B1 level of the "Common European Framework of Reference" (CEFR)(Independent User) checked by an examination. The main aim of the course Czech for Foreigners is to teach students communicate with patients in Czech without any help of English speaking doctors or interpreters and independently write case history.
Learning outcomes
Second year students
-can understand basic vocabulary and phrases related to their immediate specific surrounding, such as personal information, information about their studies and jobs
-are able to understand the meaning of short, simple notes and messages, read short, simple texts, find specific information in simple medical texts
-write short, simple personal emails
-know all basic diseases in Czech and can use a series of phrases to describe injuries and accidents
-know basic instructions used in doctor-patient's communication
-take patient's family history.
Syllabus
  • Czech for foreigners IV
  • 1st week: Revision (TM 3, 4, Nursing). Medical Czech: Diseases and complaints I (TM 5). Conversation:Talking about the weather (U 14). Grammar: Revision: The genitive, dative and accusative in singular, comparison, adverbs.
  • 2nd week: Medical Czech: Diseases and complaints II. Conversation: Technology and communication (U 15/1). Grammar: The genitive after noun. Revision: Verbs used with the dative.
  • 3rd week: PROGRESS TEST 1 (Revision).Conversation: Invitation.(U 15/2). Medical Czech: Pain I (TM 6). Grammar: Transformations e.g. při chůzi/když chodím.
  • 4th week: Conversation: Excuses and wishes (U 13/1). Grammar: The conditional.
  • 5th week: Conversation: We have a good manner (U 13/2). Medical Czech: Pain II. Grammar: Advice and suggestions (mít).
  • 6th week: PROGRESS TEST 2 (ORAL).Conversation: Characteristics. (U 13/3).Medical Czech: Injuries, accidents I (TM 7). Grammar: Revision of conditional.
  • 7th week: Conversation: Fashion (U 16/1). Medical Czech: Injuries, accidents II (TM 7). Grammar: Dative-object centred expressions.
  • 8th week: Conversation: Clothes (U 16/2). Medical Czech: Injuries, accidents III. Grammar: Personal pronous (short and long forms).
  • 9th week: Conversation: U 16/3: Likes and dislikes (chutnat, líbit se, mít rád, milovat). Grammar: Dative in use.
  • 10th week: PROGRESS TEST 3. REVISION.
  • 11th week: Medical Czech: Doctor-patient communication I. Instructions (TM 8). Grammar: Instrumental sg.
  • 12th week: PROGRESS TEST 4. Conversation: We are moving (U 17).Medical Czech: Doctor-patient communication II. Grammar: Prepositions used with instrumental.
  • 13th week: Medical Czech: Family history I (TM 19). Grammar: Revision of the genitive, dative, accusative and instrumental sg, comparison and conditional.
  • 14th week:Medical Czech: Family history II. Revision: TM UNITS 6-8.
  • 15th week: FINAL REVISION.
Literature
    required literature
  • HOLÁ, Lída. Česky krok za krokem 1. Praha: Akropolis 2016. 260 s. ISBN 978-80-7470-129-0.
  • HOLÁ, Lída, Petra BULEJČÍKOVÁ a Silvie PŘEVRÁTILOVÁ. Česky krok za krokem 1: pracovní sešit 13-24. 1. vydání. Praha: Akropolis, 2017. 160 stran. ISBN 9788074701344.
  • ČERMÁKOVÁ, Iveta. Talking medicine : Czech for medical students. 3., rev. English ed. Prague: Karolinum Press, 2012, 261 s. ISBN 9788024621043. info
    recommended literature
  • GRUNDOVÁ, Dominika. Needs of Patients. Czech-English Phrasebook for Beginners. 2., revid. vyd. Praha: Eurolex Bohemia, 2004, 104 pp. ISBN 80-86432-86-6. info
Teaching methods
The tuition is realised in the form of practical courses. The following teaching methods are used: class discussion, roleplay, work in groups, reading, listening, writing HW (including Projects), word study.
Assessment methods
The tuition is realised in the form of practical courses. The students' presence in these courses is strictly required; a maximum of two unexcused absences is tolerated. Students are allowed to substitute a maximum of TWO classes with another group. Substitutions are not possible in the weeks when Progress Test take place. Students must inform the teacher of the group in which they intend to substitute their missed class in writing in advance. If they fail to do so, they will not be allowed to attend the class. If a student has more than two unexcused absences, they will not be allowed to take the Final test. A student is obliged to provide a written excuse letter to the faculty Office for Studies justifying his/her absence within five workdays of the teaching activity he/she was absent from. The tuition is finished by an end-of-term examination (ETE) consisting of a WRITTEN and an ORAL part. Passing the examination is conditioned by proper attendance, active participation in practical courses, sitting for Progress Tests and successful passing of written and oral exams. The basic limit for passing all tests is 70%. There will be four progress tests (2 written, 2 oral. In case of passing four Progress tests (passmark for each test is 70%) the basic limit in the credit test is reduced by 10%. Tests can be taken in test weeks only. The top 10 % of students of the course, based on their total score on all progress tests, can skip the written part of Final test. To be eligible for this credit, students must: a) take and pass all progress tests, b) achieve a minimum total score of 108/120 on all progress tests. Without successful passing the of 1written exam students will not be allowed to sit for the oral part. Any copying, recording or leaking tests, use of unauthorized tools, aids and communication devices, or other disruptions of objectivity of exams (credit tests) will be considered non-compliance with the conditions for course completion as well as a severe violation of the study rules. Consequently, the teacher will finish the exam by awarding grade "F" in the Information System. The Dean will initiate disciplinary proceedings that may result in study termination.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.
Credit evaluation note: kredity B.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
Teacher's information
http://czechonline.org
Current information about the subject, consultation hours, etc. is accessible on the notice boards at the Language Center, Faculty of Medicine Division. Contact with teachers is provided by the secretary of the department (Kamenice 5, A15), tel.: 549 498 170.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017, Spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
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