Slovak Level 2 Lower Intermediate

Course description: 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 “GRAMMAR” 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: chcieť, vedieť, môcť, smieť, musieť, nesmieť…
past tense of the verbs of motion: ísť, prísť, odchádzať…
conjugations : basic categories and irregular verbs
adjectives and declension: possessive and qualitative: dobrý, Robertov, Evin…
plural :nouns, adjectives: moji dobrí študenti…
personal pronouns : ja, ma, mňa, ťa, teba, so mnou, ti, nás, vám, ho…
possessive pronouns: môj, moja, Váš, svoju, naše, vašu, tvojho, jeho, jej..
demonstrative pronouns: ten, tá, to, tento, táto, toto, toho,…
interrogative pronouns: kto, čo, koho, aký, ktorý, čí…
reflexive pronouns: si, sa, seba…
indefinite pronouns : niekto, niečo, niekoho...
cases: locative, accusative, nominative singular and plural and instrumental
numbers: cardinal: jeden, dva, tri… ordinal: prvý, prvá, prvé, druhý, tretí… and declension.
multiplicative prvýkrát, prvý raz, jedenkrát, jeden raz, dvakrát, dva razy, tri razy, päť ráz
indefinitive numerals mnoho, málo, veľa…
adverbs : dobre, zle, pomaly…
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…
Conjuctions coordinating: a, ale, aj, i , no, alebo, však, avšak, či…

Conjucations subordinating: že,keď, či, nech, ak…

Interjections : jaj, no, ach, aha….

particularly :vraj, aha,

Course Books:

Krížom – krážom, Slovenčina A1, kolektív and CD, ISBN 978-80223-2441-0

Krížom – krážom, Slovenčina Cvičebnica A1 plus A2, kolektív, ISBN 978-80-223-2809-8
Krížom – krážom, Slovenčina A2, kolektív and CD, ISBN 978-80-223-2608-7

Colloquial Slovak by James Naughton and CD, ISBN978-0-415-49634-6

Bespoke material

Useful Reference Material:

Slovak Without a Teacher, ISBN 80-85408-03-1
Slovak For You, ISBN 0-86516-331-6
Anglicko-Slovenský prekladový slovník ISBN 80-88723-67-1
Slovensko-Anglický prekladový slovník 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

Websites:

Slovak Level 2 Lower Intermediate

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