Course Catalog 2008-2009 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Jenni Hakanen

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 4, 5 : Wednesday 10 - 12, K2108 Friday 10 - 12, K2108

Requirements

Active participation in lectures (75 % attendance), assignments and successful performance in the final examination.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

By the end of the course, students will be able to understand longer stretches of spoken Finnish on familiar topics, take the initiative in everyday communication situations, and will gain a firm command of the vocabulary needed for daily interaction. Students will be able to write simple, coherent texts and will become familiar with essential grammatical structures of Finnish.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Vocabulary: expanding the previously learned vocabulary for daily interaction. New vocabulary for health and illnesses and sense verbs.
2.	Grammar: the perfect tense, the pluperfect tense and the tense use, the passive voice, the partitive plural and the object.
3.	Listening/speaking: improving spoken skills.	Taking the initiative in discussions.
4.	Reading: texts on different topics, with and without a dictionary.
5.	Writing: combining old and new knowledge, writing coherent texts.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Active participation in lectures (75% attendance), assignments and successful performance in the final examination.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Summary of lectures	Intermediate Finnish	Jenni Hakanen			Juvenes, Tietotalo		Suomi

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

Additional information

CEF: A2/B1

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	Group 1: Wed 10-12, Fri 10-12		Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	18.06.2008
Modifier	Jenni Hakanen