Аннотация:This article is about one of the most popular Czech textbooks. The mainattention is paid to the way of presentation of language material, types ofexercises and functional-stylistic differentiation of the Czech language. Thearticle provides a brief description of several teaching techniques that helpstudents develop and improve their level of speaking in Czech. The final partof the article is devoted to two new textbooks of the Czech language. Theauthor concludes that an ideal textbook should focus on the students' nativelanguage and rely on a functional approach in the presentation of linguisticmaterial.