evening course

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Despite large level differences between people in this group we managed to learn a lot, keep the speed and have fun together at the same time. Working with this group first seemed to be quite hard, but became a nice lesson in flexibility, finding more effective ways of organisation of the group and practise in managing skills of “multi-level” groups.

Eventhough some of students were genuine beginners, the group finally worked very homogene and the differences were evened out. The speed of the group was from the beginning quite high but secured by lots of home assesments and controlled by tests.

We managed to follow the standard syllabus of the school and at the same time enrich the lessons with things for which typically the evening class does not always reserved enough time (such as working with a lots of text, doing communicative games and even a little bit of theatre).

To work together with this group of nice and relaxed   people was a great pleasure for me.

This small group of two Japanese, one French,  one Hungarian, two Americans and one South African started as “false” beginners (students who already knew some Czech) and during the short time achieved A1 level.

Every student needed special approach, which  was quite challenging for  me. Thanks to a  lot of games, discussions, but also necessary drills we improved not only our grammar, but mainly speaking and understanding skills.

I hope the group was also happy with what they learned and how.

Two and half months with this group of 8 people was for me an interesting and challenging  experience. I think this group was a nice mix.
We really enjoyed working together, eventhough not everyone was on the same level of  Czech.
The main goal of all students was to talk a lot in Czech. Thanks to discussing some interesting topics students naturally extended their  vocabulary but in the meantime they realized that we had to “refresh” the grammar a bit.
Based on the wish of students we also covered some advanced grammar (conditionals, conjunctions, aspect, prepositions).
Hopefully we will have the chance to continue together in the next evening course in Albertov again.

Note: It’s funny to realize that the biggest motivation for taking language studies is having a “czech girlfriend”…

Kristyna.

Nice and colorful setup of the group of beginners, 6 men (Chinese, American, French, Italian and Dutch) and one Kongian woman decided to continue after 2 months of Czech with me.

The best thing was  we had to talk only Czech because of Tonda, the Chinese guy. Seems students liked the tutoring because they attended the course regurarly.

The atmospehere was relaxed, we could study in playful way. Attendants of the course were also educated to develope “czech heart” by singing Czech national anthem.

This group of 12 people will be able to understand Czech speakers and react in not very complicated situations. In nice and relaxed atmosphere the Czech Step By Step was a perfect guide to basic level of Czech language.