Course description: Level 1 is for complete beginners or those who have had only very little contact with the Slovak language. 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. This includes knowledge of basic vocabulary, grammar, morphology, syntax, and phonetics. The course will cover the following:
Aim:
- To develop the ability to use the Slovak language effectively for purposes of practical communication
- To form a base of the skills, language and attitudes required for further study either independently or in a class situation
- To offer insights into the culture, history and civilisation of Slovakia
Outcomes:
- To understand and respond to simple spoken language
- To communicate in speech, showing knowledge of a range and variety of vocabulary and of appropriate register in simple and routine tasks
- To be able to understand most common public notices and signs likely to be encountered in everyday life
Objectives:
- To cope with simple everyday situations and routine social conversation
- To get friendly with the world 鈥淕RAMMAR鈥 and to understand basic terminology and concepts focusing on their communicative importance
Personal Domain:
- Greetings
- Introducing yourself and others
- the phone
- Dealing with emergencies
- Thanking
- Apologising
- Talking about countries, regions of the world and languages
- Asking questions and giving information on place of origin, profession, address, phone number, email, etc.
- Talking about yourself, family and children, friends, personal interests and leisure activities
- Describing people
- Describing your house/flat, naming rooms in a house, reading housing advertisements, naming and describing furniture and fittings in a simple manner
- Expressing likes/dislikes, 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:
- 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:
- formal and informal forms of address
- writing messages, email, cards
- making complain
- expressing likes and dislikes
- describing skills, wishes, plans
- writing lists; e.g. a shopping list
- understanding basic directions
- giving polite orders
- making requests
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Grammar:
- alphabet, pronunciation of consonants: 膹,钮,艌,木,膷,d啪,拧,啪 and d,t,n,l,c,dz,s,z , pronunciation of diphthongs: ia,ie,iu,么 and the difference between short vowels a,e,i,y,o,u,盲 and long vowels 谩,茅,铆,媒,贸,煤
- verbs: to be and to have, by钮 a听ma钮
- conjugations: basic categories in indicative present
- modal verbs: chcie钮, vedie钮, m么c钮, smie钮, musie钮, nesmie钮鈥
- verbs of motion: 铆s钮, pr铆s钮, odch谩dza钮鈥
- basic conjugations, indicative present,
- nouns and genders
- adjectives : 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: the 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, no 鈥
- Abbreviations PNS, SND, OSN, MZV
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Course Books:
- KR脥沤OM KR脕沤OM Sloven膷ina A1 - 2.doplnen茅 a prepracovan茅 vydanie (the second edition) - Univerzita Komensk茅ho 2018 (Ren谩ta Kamen谩rov谩, Eva 艩panov谩, Helena 墓os Ivor铆kov谩, Michaela Mo拧a钮ov谩, Zuzana Krchov谩, Hana Tich谩)听
- KR脥沤OM KR脕沤OM Sloven膷ina A1+A2 - Cvi膷ebnica (Workbook) -听Univerzita Komensk茅ho 2015 (Helena Ivor铆kov谩, Eva 艩panov谩, Ren谩ta Kamen谩rov谩, Michaela Mo拧a钮ov谩, Zuzana Kleschtov谩, Hana Tich谩)
Textbooks can be ordered online at听
Useful Reference Material:
English Slovak Dictionary, ISBN 0-86516-226-3
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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Websites:
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