Conversation in Czech - OEBCC1703Z

• Title: Conversation in Czech
• Guaranteed by: Katedra českého jazyka (41-KCJ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 5
• Hours per week, examination: 0/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / 10 (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan; can be fulfilled in the future; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Edita Frantesová; doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D.
• Class: Předměty v angličtině - bc.

Annotation

English

Last update: doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D. (02.01.2024)

The course objective is to practise conversation in Czech. Basic topics of everyday life will be covered: meeting and introducting, greetings, shopping, school and university, at the doctor's, travel etc. The course is suitable for beginners and lower intermediate students of Czech language.

Czech

Last update: doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D. (02.01.2024)

Kurz bude zaměřen na procvičování konverzace v češtině - pokryty budou základní komunikační okruhy (setkání, pozdravy, nakupování, škola a univerzita, u lékaře, cestování atd.) Kurz je vhodný jako doplnění ke kurzu češtiny pro začátečníky či mírně pokročilé.

Literature

Last update: doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D. (02.01.2024)

Hickey, L.; Stewart, M. (eds.) Politeness in Europe. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2005.

Hofstede, G. Cultural dimensions [online]  https://www.hofstede-insights.com/product/compare-countries/ 

von Kunes, K. Everything you wanted to know about Czech but were afraid to ask. Prah, 1995.

youtube: Dream Prague, Tady Gavin

Requirements to the exam

Last update: doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D. (02.01.2024)

Requirements (will be specified during the course):

1) attendance, active participation in the class

2) presentation of the topic chosen by the student (in pairs)

Syllabus

Last update: doc. PhDr. Pavla Chejnová, Ph.D. (02.01.2024)

 

1) Greetings. Formal and informal greetings. Pragmatic aspects of the communication (communicators, setting, institutional communication). Verbal and non-verbal forms of greetings (handshake). Etiquette.

2) Introducing oneself. Forms of address. Professional and academic titles. Hypocoristic and diminutive. Politeness formulas. Impolite forms of address which may cause pragmatic failure.

3) Politeness in the Czech Republic. Pronominal addressing, T-forms and V- forms. Choosing communicative strategy in the context. Impolite forms of pronominal addressing which may cause pragmatic failure.

4) Small talk. How are you? Strategies Czech speakers use when answering How are you? Positive, negative and neutral answers. Safe topics (weather) and topics to be avoided (politics).

5) Complimenting. Strategies that Czech speakers use. Accepting a compliment. Modesty and approbation. Things that could be complimented on.

6) Requesting. Polite ways how to ask and request. Level of directness, lexical and grammatical modification of requests.

7) Shopping. Conversation with the shop assistant. Vocabulary (semantic field – food and drink).

8) Restaurant. How to order a meal. Vocabulary (semantic field – food and drink).

9) School, University. How to address a teacher. The organisation of the Czech school system. School subjects.

10) At the doctor’s. Emergency call. Illness. How to describe the symptoms.

11) Travel. Where are you from? Countries, cities. Means of transport.

12) Presentation of one topic chosen by the student (in pairs).