In this unit you will be introduced to the very basics of the Czech language, from pronunciation to identifying objects, and describing people and things. Below you will find some more in-depth information about the topics covered in this unit.

To the right you can download a copy of the activity book which contains exercises and activities to be completed along with each day in the textbook. For more information about using these materials, see Using the Reality Czech Curriculum

Classroom Activity Book

Communicative Goals

Grammar

Vocabulary

• greet someone both informally and formally
• introduce yourself
• ask someone else’s name
• ask what something is
• identify objects
• ask and answer who someone is
• describe people and objects using various combinations of adj. noun
• ask for a description of something
• ask “whose is this?”
• say who something belongs to using possessive (my, your, his, etc.) pronouns
• say where you are from
• count to twenty

• Czech letters and pronunciation rules
• distinguish types of nouns (hard and soft)
• predict gender (MA, MI, F, N) of a noun based on the way it ends
• vocative case forms
• conjugate the verb být ‘to be’ in the present tense
• nominative plural of nouns and adjectives
• demonstrative pronoun ten, ta, to and proximal tenhle, tahle, tohle

• everyday objects
• common professions
• verb být ‘to be’
• numbers