Coursebook

Holá, L. New Czech Step by Step. 4th edition. Praha: Akropolis, 2008. 256 pp. ISBN 978-80-86903-73-6.

 

  Čermáková, Iveta. Talking medicine. Praha: Karolinum, 2012. ISBN 9788024621043.

 

 

 

 

Course Requirements

• Attendance (you are allowed 2 excused absences)
• Active participation
• 5 progress tests
• Final test

Course Syllabus

Week 1:

• Revision
• Holidays, travelling.
• Revision of accusative forms in singular and plural, prepositions, verbs.

Week 2:

• Daily routine.
• Genitive singular of nouns, adjectives, possesive and interrogative pronouns. Prepositions used with the genitive. Time prepositions. Verbs with the genitive.
• Parts of body

Week 3:

• Test 1
• Czech Recipes.
• Partitive genitive.

Week 4:

• House cleaning.
• Imperfective versus Perfective verbs.
• Oral cavity.

Week 5:

• Revision of future and past tenses.
• Teeth

Week 6:

• Giving directions.
• Imperative.
• Test 2

Week 7:

• Verbs of motion with prefixes.
• Instructions.

Week 8:

• Verbs jít/chodit-jet/jezdit.
• Basic conversation in dental surgery.

Week 9:

• University and my study.
• Dative of nouns and adjectives in singular. Personal pronouns in dative.
• Test 3

Week 10:

• Communication and interaction.
• Verbs and prepositions with the dative.

Week 11:

• Writing e-mails. Mobile phones.
• Taking history
• Test 4

Week 12:

• Day in hospital

Week 13:

• Revision
• Test 5

Week 14:

• Final test