Syllabus
Winter Term:
Everyday Czech:- Czech alphabet - Phonetics - Pronounciation- Co/Kdo je to? (People, things)- Kde?Tady/tam - Nationalities - Personal pronouns and the present conjugation of to be - Meeting people - Formal/informal language How are you- Things - Plural words - Adverbs of position - Numbers 0-10 - Negation of to be - Conjugation of verbs: first group - Accusative - Asking for information- Places - Prepositions of location v/na - Places - Apartment - Numbers 11-19 - Jobs - Locative - Conjugation of verbs: second group - Plural of nouns (-y) - In a restaurant, on a visit - Telephone conversation - Prosím - Problems with yes and no - Problems in communication – Orientation in the city- Daily routine - Liking: rád, ráda, rádi + verbs - The time of day - Neither...nor... - Conjunctions - Numbers 20-100 - Conjugation of verbs: third group - Chtít - Reflexive verbs -Prefixes ně- and ni-- Food and drink - Liking mít rád - Numbers form 100, Kolik stojí - Conjugation of verbs: fourth group - Review: The accusative - I would like - In a shop - In a restaurant- Work - Telling time - Kdy, v kolik hodin, jak dlouho - Days of the week - Kdy/když, znát/vědět - Jobs - Modal verbs - Plural of nouns - Review - The locative
Medical Czech:
- Parts of the body, organs,basic symptoms - cough, fever, pain, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation...
- Names of the most common conditions, names of wards and departments
- Questions for patient doctor communication - Eliciting basic information about the patient
- Questions about sleep and medication
Summer Term:
Everyday Czech:- Travelling - Adverbs of motion - Means of transport - Verbs of motion - Prepositions of motion and the genitive - Polite request - Phrases of public transport - In a taxi- Characteristics - Colours - Jaký, který - Gender of nouns, ten, jeden and the adjectives - Adjectives and adverbs - Number 2 and the gender - Overview of the cases - Declension of žena - Special events
- Family - Expressions of tmie, prepositions of time, years - Jak/jaký/jako, conjunctions - This - Prepositions of position - Past participle-past tense of the third person - Possessive adjectives and pronouns - Irregular verbs - Declension of město - Asking for personal data - Invitation - On a visit- The past - Prepositions of motion and location - Prefixes with jít - Past tense - Review: Location and motion - Declension of pán and hrad - Request-acceptance or refusal - Questionnaire - Interview- Talking about the future - Perfective and imperfective verbs - Months, seasons of the year - Future tense of imperfective/perfective verbs and verbs of motion - Declension of muž and pokoj - Review: Social phrases - Telephone conversation
Medical Czech:
- Czech terms for other symptoms and conditions
- Vocabulary and questions to be able to inquire about patient's mobility, hearing and vision
- Eating habits - disorders, weight, some GI symptoms
- Pain - questions about duration, site, frequency and onset
- Everyday routine
Annotation
Annotation: The course Czech for Foreigners is designed as an obligatory class in the first period of the curriculum of the foreign students whose native language is not Czech. The achieved language competence is the first step to building a bulk of language for special purposes (Medical Czech).
Is it essential that the students successfully complete the course to be able to gain admittance to the course Czech for Foreigners II.