Course Details

French for Beginners

Academic Year 2025/26

VYF001 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Pronunciation: French phonetic system, stress, intonation, linking
Grammar: articles, present tense of 1st verb group, making negative forms and questions, making plural forms of nouns and adjectives, personal, demonstrative and possessive pronouns, imperative.
Vocabulary: introducing, description of person and objects, place of objects, orientation in the town, time, date, numbers 1-1OOO, shopping, clothes

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

None.

Aims

Mastering the rules of pronunciation to the extent of 500 words and basic grammar for speaking in the Present Tense.
Reading skills, translating a simple text, communication of simple information.
Student will accomplish the aim of the course, which is: mastering the rules of pronunciation to the extent of 500 words and basic grammar for speaking in the Present Tense.
Reading skills, translating a simple text, communication of simple information.

Basic Literature

G. Capelle, R. Menand: Le nouveau Taxi! 1, Hachette, 2018 (fr)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1.pronunciation, linking, numbers 1-10
  • 2. Bienvenue- masculine and feminine gender, verb "to be", question; greeting, introducing
  • 3.Rencontre- definite article, gender of nouns and adjectives, prepositions (countries, towns)
  • 4. ca va bien?- possessive pronouns, indefinite article, question; adress, age, phone number, numbers 10-20
  • 5. Correspondance- hobbies, writing an email
  • 6.Passe-temps- plural of articles and nouns, prepositions, question, "il y a", description and location of objects
  • 7. Portrait-robot- personal pronouns, negative form, accord of nouns and adjectives; description of person and clothes
  • 8. Boutique.net- demonstrative pronouns, interrogative pronouns, question; shopping
  • 9. Le coin des artistes
  • 10. Appartement a louer- in the town, my flat
  • 11. Pour aller au Louvre- imperative; means of transport
  • 12. Voyages, voyages- pronoun "on"; travelling, cardinal points
  • 13. Week-end a la mer- revision L9-L12