32181 - Slovak (Language)

Course contents

Vocabulary / Conversation topics:

- Free Time Activities

- Christmas and holiday in Slovakia

- Travelling – railway station, airport

- At the doctor´s, in pharmacy, health and illnesses

- The Human body, describing a person

- Telephoning, e-mail, correspondence, writing personal letters, postcards

- At the post office, at the bank

- Town, asking for directions

- A trip throughout Slovakia, the points of the compass

- Schools and education system

- The weather, weather forecast

- Romantic dinner, a declaration of love

- Recipes

 

Grammatica :

- Grammar Revision

- Conjugation of verbs of various classes in present tense

- Possessive pronoun svoj

- Comparative and superlative of adjectives

- Dative case singular and plural of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative, possessive and personal pronouns, numbers

- Dative prepositions

- Comparative and superlative of adverbs

- Conditional

- Genitive case singular and plural of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative, possessive and personal pronouns, numbers

- Genitive prepositions

- Revision of prepositions

- Imperative

- Direct and indirect speech

- Verb aspect (perfective, imperfective verbs)

- Future tense of perfective and imperfective verbs

- Conditional clauses

- Present and past participles

-  Grammar Revision

 

The actual schedule may vary depending on the amount of hours per month.

Readings/Bibliography

Kamenárová, Renáta a kol., 2012: Krížom-krážom. Slovenčina A2. Doplnené a prepracované vydanie. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského.

Kročanová-Roberts, Dagmar – Resutíková-Toppi, Barbora, 2010: Slovenčina-Slovacco-Slovak. Bologna: BUP.

Böhmerová, Ada, 2001: Slovak For You. Bratislava: Perfekt.

Barková, Viera – Buznová, Viktória – Dratva, Tomáš, 2005: Slovenčina pre cudzincov. Bratislava: SPN.

Pekarovičová, Jana a kol., 2005: Slovenčina pre cudzincov. Praktická fonetická príručka. Bratislava: Stimul.

Hlušík, Michal – Saccardinová, Michaela, 2003: Slovensko-taliansky slovník. Bratislava: Kniha-spoločník.

Saccardinová, Michaela, 1998: Taliansko-slovenský slovník. Bratislava: Kniha-spoločník.

-, 2006: Taliansko-slovenský dvojjazyčný ilustrovaný slovník. Bratislava-Slovart.

Materials prepared by the teacher

Students are encouraged to look for additional resources

Teaching methods

The class combines didactic methods and uses different learning activities, in order to provide students with the communicative grammar of Slovak language and train all basic skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking). Activities include revision and practice of grammar, reading and listening comprehension, oral and written summaries of texts, translations, syntactic and stylistic analysis of the texts etc.

Assessment methods

Students are required to:

- Attend the classes and prepare regularly for the lessons,

- Pass a mid-term (written test) and a final exam (written test and an oral exam)

Any change of the requirements or evaluation procedures will be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Teaching tools

PTP, CD player (audiomaterial), visual aids (grammar maps)

Office hours

See the website of Renata Kamenarova