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Czech class member Jan Latuska has pointed us to a consolidator for cheap tickets to Europe in general and Czech Republic in particular. Looking at fares, it seems to work best for travel reservations within one to two weeks of travel. Its name is
Atlantic Fellowship

A fun place to find information on Czech language is from the Prague
Radio home page Prague Radio. My favorite online dictionary is Dictionary.
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Czech out the Prague Post. To really practice your Czech try České Noviny

Hi - this is an experiment in using a swiki for an adult Czech Class. Swikis are collaborative web sites, so you can edit this one also when I give the password out in the class.

I'm John Cherniavsky and I am at the National Science Foundation interested in the applications of Technology to education and learning at all levels.

Dobrý den. Vítám vás na českou webové stráce.

Homework can be found at the Cenasy web page - linked to the Czech Class page.
Cenasy
Syllabus

Instructor's email address Michael Borek.

My contact information. John Cherniavsky, John Cherniavsky>jchernia@cenasy.com.




Introductory Czech III
CZEC 1153
Instructor: Michael Borek


SYLLABUS


Course Objectives

This course is designated for very advanced beginners (completion of lessons 1-10 from the Czech Step by Step or equivalent knowledge is expected) and emphasizes conversation, grammar and writing. By the end of the course students should have knowledge covered in lessons 1-15, and they should be able to interact in Czech in all common situations.

Course Elements

Conversation
Listening comprehension
Reading
Grammar review and exercises

Students will need the following material:

Textbook "Czech Step by Step"
Pen or pencil
Notebook
Small Czech/English Dictionary

Evaluation:

40% Class participation/Homework
50% Tests
10% Class Attendance

The instructor will routinely assign homework and class work. The course will have two tests. The precise format of these tests will be discussed at a later date.

Week no. 1
Review of lessons 6 to 10
Lesson 11: go: jit, jet, adverbs expressing direction vs. location, verbs of motion Reading and translation, dialogues, video presentation

Week no.2
Review of lesson 11, plus verbs of motion + na + the accusative, the future tense of determined verbs ofmotion, Lesson 12: reflexive "se" and "si"
Reading and translation, dialogues, video presentation

Week no. 3
Lessons 12:verb plus the accusative (pp. 127-128), clothes
Reading and translation, dialogues, video presentation

Week no. 4
Lessons 12: pronouns in the accusative; Lesson 13: introduction to the genitive
Reading and tranlation, dialogues, video presentation

Week no. 5
Review of lessons 10,11,12, Lesson 13: genitive, cooking
Test on lessons 10,11, and 12
Reading and translation, dialogues, video presentation

Week no. 6
Lessons 14:prepositions plus the genitive, adverbs expressing direction vs. location (review
plus new), traveling
Reading and translation, dialogues, video presentation

Week no. 7
Lessons 14: the direction in Czech, Lesson 15 ordinal numbers
Reading and translation, dialogues, video presentation

Week no. 8
Lessons 15: time and date, verbs + (preposition) + the genitive, pronouns in the genitive
Reading and translation, dialogues, video presentation

Week no. 9
Lesson 15: the genitive plural, money, weights, measures; Lesson 16:introduction to imperfective and perfective verbs
Reading and translation, dialogues, video presentation

Week no. 10
Textbook: Final review of the previous lessons
Reading and translation, dialogues, video presentation
Final test
Final evaluation

General Information:

Your final grade in this course will be based on test results, oral participation, and homework. Each lesson will also include several different activities and tasks not listed in the syllabus; such as: listening, comprehension, role-play, reading,e tc. If you have anything specific you would like to learn, achieve or talk about during the course, and it is not in the syllabus, please let me know and I will try to include it. All students are alos encouraged to use as many resources for language learning as they can during their studying at home.