Greek Level 3 plus

Prerequisite for entry

Having completed level 3 or equivalent.

Term duration

10 x 2-hour classes.

Progression

After 20 hours students may progress to level 4.

Aims and objectives

• to enable students further develop their skills (in listening, speaking, reading and writing) in Modern Greek in a variety of everyday situations;
• to further develop awareness of aspects of Greek culture within a European / global context.

A communicative method of teaching / learning is fostered, although aspects of grammar are covered as well. Students are aided to reflect on their learning skills and experiential / autonomous learning is encouraged, including the use of interactive ICT material.

Course content

Main topics/themes to be covered:

• weather and climate / months and seasons
• describing a person
• further practice on everyday activities, going to the post office, bank etc…
• writing notes, short messages etc...
• planning for the future 
• further practice on describing a country: Greece nowadays etc...
• expressing agreement, disagreement etc...

Linguistic structures/ Phonetics

• verbs: present and future tenses / simple imperative / simple past / simple subjunctive 
• nouns: diminutives, commonly used suffixes 
• adjectives: three degrees of comparison
• conditional: factual
• pronouns: contrastive, universal etc...
• Syntactic structures: neither etc...

Learning resources

Books

• Books: The course is based on ΚΛΙΚ στα ελληνικά B1 / klik sta Ellinika  B1 (by M.Karakirgiou and V. Panagiotidou, Centre of the Greek Language  Publishers, Thessaloniki 2015).  
• As well, the students will study the story Ξενοδοχείο Ατλαντίς, παρακαλώ.  / Hotel Atlantis, please (by Neni Kolethra, Deltos Publishers, Athens 2001).

References

• Greek for you Α1/Ελληνικά για εσάς A2 (by E. Georgantzi, E. Radopoulou et al, NEOHEL Publishers, Athens 201).
• Greek Now 2+2, by Dimitra Dimitra and Marineta Papahimona, Nostos Publishers, Athens 2002 (textbook, exercise book and audio-tape)
• Greek, A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language, by David Holton et al., Routledge, London 1999
• The 100 Word Exercise book, by Ioanna Psalti, g-and-w publishing, England 2000 
• Akou na this, by Froso Arvanitaki and Lelia Panteloglou, Deltos Publishes, Athens 1998 (book and audio-tape)
• Learning Modern Greek, by Smaro Vogiatzidou, University Studio Press Publishers, Thessaloniki 2002 (textbook, exercise book, book for oral practice and audio-tapes)
• Greek is a game, by Fani Balsamaki et al., Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki Publishers, Thessaloniki 2003 (variety of activities)
• World Talk Greek, Eurotalk Interactive, 1999 (CD-ROM)
• Filoglossia 2, 3 Institute for Language and Speech Processing, http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/filog