Course Catalog 2009-2010 Basic Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Jenni Hakanen

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 1, 2 : Tuesday 14 - 16, K2108 Thursday 8 - 10, K2108	International Students
Implementation 2	Per 3, 4 : Tuesday 12 - 14, K2108 Thursday 10 - 12, K2108	International Students
Implementation 3	Per 3 : Tuesday 12 - 14, K2120 Per 3, 4 : Thursday 10 - 12, K2119A Per 4 : Tuesday 12 - 14, K2307A	International Students

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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Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to understand slow, clearly spoken, simple spoken Finnish as well as short texts. Students will also be able to cope with everyday situations involving the exchange of information. Students will be able to write short texts, and they will gain a command of basic grammatical structures, with a vocabulary adequate for dealing with familiar topics.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Vocabulary: weather, travelling, foods and drinks and eating in a restaurant. New vocabulary also for home, living and clothing.
2.	Listening/speaking: Students will understand clear, slowly spoken Finnish on topics covered in the course. They will be able to cope with everyday situations.
3.	Reading: texts on topics covered in the course.
4.	Writing: short texts on topics covered in the course. Students will be able to combine their old and new knowledge of the Finnish language.
5.	Grammar: use and meaning of the local cases and the partitive singular. New necessive verbs and modal verbs, MA-infinitive, imperative and the simple past tense (imperfect). Postpositions.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Active participation (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	Finnish for Beginners 2	Jenni Hakanen			Juvenes bookstore, Rakennustalo		Suomi

Prerequisites

Additional information about prerequisites
KIE-1056 or equivalent knowledge.

Correspondence of content

Additional information

CEF: A2

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	Group 1: Tue 14-16 and Thu 8-10		Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %
Implementation 2	Group 2: Tue 12-14 and Thu 10-12		Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %
Implementation 3	Group 3: Tue 12-14 and Thu 10-12

Last modified	08.01.2010
Modifier	Jenni Hakanen