LF:aZLCJ0282 Czech for Foreigners II - Course Information
aZLCJ0282 Czech Language for Foreigners II - practice
Faculty of Medicinespring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/3/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Eva Kozáková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Martin Punčochář (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Ivana Rešková, Ph.D. (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 – Faculty Branches of University Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Kozáková
Supplier department: Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Faculty Branches of University Departments – Faculty of Medicine - Prerequisites
- aZLCJ0181 Czech for Foreigners I
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. First year students can understand vocabulary and basic phrases related to students, their families, and their immediate specific surrounding, provided people speak clearly and at a slow rate. The knowledge enables students to communicate in common routine tasks, such as shopping, accommodation, using public transport, orientation in the city, asking the way, being able to describe their place of living and people they know by simple phrases and sentences. Students should also be able to fill in forms with personal data, such as name, nationality and address when applying for residence accommodation. - 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
- Dentistry (programme LF, M-DENT)
- Dentistry (eng.) (programme LF, M-ZL)
- Course objectives
- The aim of the tuition is working knowledge of the Czech language on the A2 level of the "Common European Framework of Reference" (CEFR) checked by an examination.
- Learning outcomes
- After first year students can understand vocabulary and basic phrases related to students, their families, and their immediate specific surrounding, provided people speak clearly and at a slow rate. The knowledge enables students to communicate in common routine tasks, such as shopping, accommodation, using public transport, orientation in the city, asking the way, being able to describe their place of living and people they know by simple phrases and sentences. Students should also be able to fill in forms with personal data, such as name, nationality and address when applying for residence accommodation. Emphasis put on knowledge of parts of body and basic useful phrases in medical communication.
- Syllabus
- Syllabus of Czech for Foreigners II.
- 1st week: REVISION LESSON. UNIT 6/1: Conversation: Daily routine. Talking about time. What did you do today? Grammar: Past tense I-regular forms.
- 2nd week: UNIT 6/2: Conversation: Where were you? Grammar: Past tense II (irregular forms). Reflexive verbs: ses, sis. The second position in Czech sentences. Locative singular.
- 3rd week: REVISON TEST 1. UNIT 6/3: Conversation: Do you know who it was? (Karel IV) Grammar: Time expressions. Verbs ZNÁT a VĚDĚT. Countries and nationalities.
- 4th week: UNIT 7/1: Conversation: Houses and flats. Furniture. Grammar: Nominative and accusative plural
- 5th week: UNIT 7/2: Conversation: Looking for accommodation. Grammar: Numerals dva-dvě. The date: ordinal numbers, months, seasons.
- 6th week: PROGRESS TEST 2. UNIT 8/1: Conversation: Planning our weekend. Grammar: The future tense. Human body I (Head).
- 7th week: UNIT 8/2: Conversation: Free time activities. Grammar: KAM? Expressing directions. Prepositions NA-DO-K/KE). Human body II (Neck and trunk).
- 8th week: PROGRESS TEST 3 (VIDEO). REVISION Units 6-8. Conversation: What did you do yesterday? Plan your future. Human body I and II. Grammar: Revision.
- 9th week: UNIT 9/1: Conversation: Describing Human body. What do we look like? Grammar: Nominative plural of body parts. Personal pronouns in the accusative and dative (Bolí/bolelo mě, je mi dobře/špatně). Human body III (Internal and Genital organs).
- 10th week: UNIT 9/2: Conversation: At the doctor. At the pharmacy. Grammar: Accusative object-centered constructions. Prepositions with the accusative (na, pro, za, o). Human body IV (Extremities).
- 11th week: PROGRESS TEST 4. UNIT 10/1: Conversation: The place where we live. Grammar: Genitive singular I. Prepositions with genitive. Human body V (Skeleton).
- 12th week: PROGRESS TEST 5 (ORAL). UNIT 10/2: Conversation: Kde jsi byl? Kam půjdeš/pojedeš? U lékaře. Lidské tělo I-V. Grammar: Revision.
- 13th week: UNIT 10/3: Conversation: Travelling. Plans for summer holiday. Grammar: Genitive singular II. Expressing directions.
- 14th week: REVISION LESSON.
- 15th week: FINAL TEST.
- Literature
- 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. 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. If a student has more than two unexcused absences, they will not be allowed to take the Final test. 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%. If students a) succesfully pass all progress tests (must be taken only during the test week), b) get at least 90% in total (both conditions must be met), they do not have to take the written part of Final test. Without successful passing the written 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.
- 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: 45.
Credit evaluation note: kredity B. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Teacher's information
- 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.
- Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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