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Professional Language Preparation II

Class at Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové |
GAF268

Syllabus

2nd year, winter semester  

Unit 7 In the house/flat

Where do you live? I. Verbs prodat, koupit, pronajmout. Looking for a new place to live

Unit 7

Where do you live? II. Verbs with accusative. Vocabulary: rooms, furniture, colours

Unit 7

Furnishing a flat. Nominative in accusative plural. Numbers 1 and 2

Unit 7

Booking accommodation

Unit 7

Dates, seasons, months. Revision

Unit 8 Planning a weekend

Future tense. Prepositions do, na. Time expressions

Unit 8

Eva and professor Higgins. Directions. Verbs jít, jet, letět + prepositions do, na, k

Unit 8

Practising future tense. Na-words

Unit 8

Everyday activities. Planning a day

Unit 8

My weekend. Free-time activities. Revision

Unit 9 Human Body

What do we look like? Irregular forms of substantives in nom. pl. Parts of human body

Unit 9

At the doctor´s. Accusative and dative + pronouns.

Unit 9

Verb bolet in the past. Expressions mít + illness and injury. Phrases at the doctor´s

Unit 9

In the pharmacy. Prepositions pro, za, na. Medicament and medical prescription. Revision    2nd year, summer semester  

Unit 10 The place we live in

Genitive singular. Prepositions

Unit 10

Commuting to work I. Directions, prepositions z/ze – do, z/ze – na, od – k/ke

Unit 10

Commuting to work II.  Jít od/z/do … x být v … Shops

Unit 10

Being invited for a visit I. Modal verbs

Unit 10

Being invited for a visit II. Verb jet + adverbs of location. Revision

Unit 11 On Vacation

On vacation I. Verbs of motion. Activities. Time expressions

Unit 11

On vacation II. Practising verbs of motion. Phrases: travelling

Unit 11

Travelling I. Verbs of motion + prefixes při and od

Unit 11

Travelling II. Types of prefixes. Verbs + prefixes

Unit 11

Travel complications. Revision

Unit 12 Holidays and feasts

Holidays and feasts. Writing and responding to invitations

Unit 12

Housework chores I. Imperfective and perfective verbs

Unit 12

Housework chores II. Practising imperfective and perfective verbs.

Unit 12

What are your plans? Future tense of perfective verbs. Revision  

Annotation

Within the subject Professional language preparation, there is a course of the Czech language for Foreigners designed to the foreign students whose native language is not Czech and who study the programme of Pharmacy in English.

Czech Language course is optional but passing the examination in Czech Language is compulsory.

The course of the Czech language takes 4 semesters. Students can register for the courses of Czech Language only for the whole academic year, it means for both semesters in the 1st and/or both semesters of the 2nd section of study.

The achieved language competence is the first step to be able to communicate, read, write and translate texts in the Czech language before they start learning the basics of Medical and Pharmaceutical Czech. Is it essential that the students successfully complete the course till the end of the 3rd year of study.

Students practise exercises on the basic lexical items, grammar, phrases, new thematical topics, synonyms, oral communication, reading comprehension and translation of short texts from different areas of life.

The course focuses on the use of real communicative situations to systematically develop all the language skills, both passive (reading and listening comprehension) and active (writing and speaking).

At the end of the course students should be able to manage basic communicative situations and to understand written texts in Czech.