B2691 - LINGUA BULGARA (TERZA LINGUA) I

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Languages and Technologies for Intercultural Communication (cod. 5979)

Course contents

Communication contents:

Greet, introduce yourself, say your age, date of birth and nationality, give information on your marital status and profession, say where you live, ask and provide your telephone number, ask and provide timetables, talk about your family, describe someone, ask and provide a personal opinion.

Grammatical contents:The alphabet and phoneticsPhonetic changes: alternation of voiceless and voiced consonants, reduction of unaccented vowels. Main spelling rules.

MorphologyThe noun (gender and number). The article. Vocative forms.The pronouns.Personal pronouns subject, direct object and indirect object. Tonic and unstressed forms. The reflexive personal pronoun. Doubling of the object.Interrogative pronouns.Relative and demonstrative pronouns.Possessive pronoun. Long (tonic) and short (unstressed) forms. The reflexive possessive pronoun.The adjectives. The adverbs. Degrees of comparison.The verb. Conjugation.Present and future.Formation of the past tense of the verb съм.Prepositions.The particles да, ли, не, си е се.

SyntaxAffirmative and negative sentences.The cognugations и е а.Interrogative sentences and relative clauses.

Readings/Bibliography

Колева-Златева, Живка. Емилиянова, Боряна. Български език за чужденци. Първа част. Faber, 2019.

Teaching methods

Lectures, exercises and audio and video material

Assessment methods

The final exam includes a written test (lexico-grammatical test) and an oral part covering the topics covered during the lessons (70% of the final grade). Students are required to prepare for lessons by completing homework (30% of the final grade).

Teaching tools

Video and audio materials, grammatical tables.

Office hours

See the website of Alexander Panov