Čeština pro život / Le tchèque pour la vie / Чешский для жизни

The French-Russian version of the conversational guide Czech for Life by Alena Nekovářová, director of the Asset Education Centre in České Budějovice, is intended for all intermediate to advanced foreign students who are already learning Czech and want to further improve their expression so that they can speak like native Czechs. Czech for Life provides long missing material for more advanced students, enabling them to improve their skills in fifteen topics related to everyday situations. Lesson titles, which include Such a Normal Family, Eat and Drink! Bon appetit, Let's go shopping, Please show me the way, At the doctor's. Next please!, demonstrate the practical and communicative focus of the textbook. Each lesson starts with introductory questions on the topic and an input text (monologue, dialogue). Questions on the text test reading comprehension and the ability to express oneself independently, while grammar exercises allow you to practise and consolidate selected grammatical phenomena. A conversational block follows, enriched by photographs and illustrations, which leads students to speak independently and learn how to respond to situations as they arise. The section is structured to offer a variety of stimuli for both teamwork and individual vocabulary expansion. Listening exercises reinforce the memorization of newly acquired phraseology. The exercises are freely downloadable in MP3 format. The authenticity of the language is achieved by using commonly spoken words, including colloquial expressions. The textbook includes a key with the correct solutions, transcripts of the listening exercises, a brief overview of Czech grammar and, within each lesson, drills and vocabulary exercises with French and Russian translations. Successful work with the textbook requires a B2 level of Czech according to the Common European Framework of Reference.