Course description:听Level 2 is for those who completed Level 1 or who have some knowledge of the language acquired through regular visits to the country or through self-study. The course runs over three ten week terms and each session is two hours long. The course includes all four skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. The course will cover the following:
Aims:
- to reinforce and to extend the previous knowledge
- to improve the fluency
- to develop the ability to use the Slovak language effectively for purposes of practical communication
- to offer insights into the culture, history and civilisation of Slovakia
Outcomes:
- To communicate in speech, showing knowledge of a range and variety of vocabulary and of appropriate register in simple and routine tasks
Objectives:
- To cope with simple everyday situations and routine social conversation with better confidence
- To get friendly with the world 鈥淕RAMMAR鈥 and to understand basic terminology and concepts focusing on their communicative importance
Personal Domain:
- Introducing holidays and traditions
- Culinary art and Slovak cuisine
- Dealing with visits to doctors, dentists, hospitals and making an appointment, naming parts of the body, describing illnesses; understanding simple procedures and instructions
- Making travel arrangements (booking flight, hotel room, buying a railway ticket)
- Discussing in simple terms differences in culture, attitude, customs and practice
- Answering the phone
- Asking questions and giving information on place of origin, profession, address, phone number, email, etc.
- Talking about personal interests and leisure activities
- Talking about holidays, past experiences and future plans
- Expressing personal views and preferences on simple matters
- Discussing day-to-day activities and routines
- Inviting guests to an event and agreeing a date/place/time
- Discussing in simple terms differences in culture, attitude, customs and practice
Public Domain:
- Shopping for everyday items; describing something you wish to buy, expressing quantity, colour and size; expressing likes and dislikes; asking for prices, understanding currency
- Travelling by public transport; buying tickets, understanding timetables, asking for information about travel, telling the time
- Asking where places are, giving and understanding directions
- Making travel arrangements (booking flight, hotel room, buying a railway ticket)
- Arranging bookings with restaurants, hotels etc., stating facilities, dates and number of persons and making simple enquiries
- Buying tickets for the theatre, the cinema, the museum or other events stating dates and number of persons and making simple enquiries
- Reading most common public notices and signs
Functions:
- expressing different opinions, inviting to join a discussion
- formal and informal forms of address
- writing messages, email, cards
- making complain
- giving instructions
- expressing likes and dislikes
- understanding short texts from Slovak literature and lyrics
- understating headlines from Slovak newspapers
- describing skills, wishes, plans
- making direct and indirect requests
- summarising conversation, applying direct and indirect speech
Grammar:
Reinforcing and revising the basic from Level 1 with the addition of:
- pronunciation, intonation, improving melodie and accent
- past tense of modal verbs: chcie钮, vedie钮, m么c钮, smie钮, musie钮, nesmie钮鈥
- past tense of the verbs of motion: 铆s钮, pr铆s钮, odch谩dza钮鈥
- conjugations : basic categories and irregular verbs
- adjectives and declension: possessive and qualitative: dobr媒, Robertov, Evin鈥
- plural :nouns, adjectives: moji dobr铆 拧tudenti鈥
- personal pronouns : ja, ma, m艌a, 钮a, teba, so mnou, ti, n谩s, v谩m, ho鈥
- possessive pronouns: m么j, moja, V谩拧, svoju, na拧e, va拧u, tvojho, jeho, jej..
- demonstrative pronouns: ten, t谩, to, tento, t谩to, toto, toho,鈥
- interrogative pronouns: kto, 膷o, koho, ak媒, ktor媒, 膷铆鈥
- reflexive pronouns: si, sa, seba鈥
- indefinite pronouns听: niekto, nie膷o,听niekoho...
- cases: locative, accusative, nominative singular and plural and instrumental
- numbers: cardinal: jeden, dva, tri鈥 ordinal: prv媒, prv谩, prv茅, druh媒, tret铆鈥 and declension.
- multiplicative prv媒kr谩t, prv媒 raz, jedenkr谩t, jeden raz, dvakr谩t, dva razy, tri razy, p盲钮 r谩z
- indefinitive numerals mnoho, m谩lo, ve木a鈥
- adverbs : dobre, zle, pomaly鈥
- Nonflexible parts of speech : Prepositions and connections with the cases : v, vo, do, na, pre, pred, za, pod, nad, po, cez, pre, s, so, z, zo, u, pri鈥
- Conjuctions coordinating: a, ale, aj, i , no, alebo, v拧ak, av拧ak, 膷i鈥
Conjucations subordinating: 啪e,ke膹, 膷i, nech, ak鈥
- Interjections : jaj, no, ach, aha鈥.
particularly :vraj, aha,
Course Books:
- Kr铆啪om 鈥 kr谩啪om, Sloven膷ina A1, kolekt铆v and CD, ISBN 978-80223-2441-0
- Kr铆啪om 鈥 kr谩啪om, Sloven膷ina Cvi膷ebnica A1 plus A2, kolekt铆v, ISBN 978-80-223-2809-8
- Kr铆啪om 鈥 kr谩啪om, Sloven膷ina A2, kolekt铆v and CD, ISBN 978-80-223-2608-7
- Colloquial Slovak by James Naughton and CD, ISBN978-0-415-49634-6
Useful Reference Material:
- Slovak Without a Teacher, ISBN 80-85408-03-1
- Slovak For You, ISBN 0-86516-331-6
- Anglicko-Slovensk媒 prekladov媒 slovn铆k ISBN 80-88723-67-1
- Slovensko-Anglick媒 prekladov媒 slovn铆k ISBN 80-88723-67-1
- The Guide to The Peoples of Europe, The Times, ISBN 0-7230-0624-5
- A History of Slovakia by Stanislav. Kirsbaum, ISBN 0333681029
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