48073 - Slovak Language I

Learning outcomes

The class focuses on several main tasks:

·         Obtaining a communicative knowledge of Slovak language, i.e. training all essential skills (speaking, listening and understanding, reading, writing).

·         Providing students with the grammar structure of the Slovak language that will enable them to pursue their further studies.

·         Offering students essential cultural information on Slovakia.

Course contents

October

• Alphabet, pronunciation rules
• Greetings and common phrases
• Gender of nouns
• Things around us
• Jobs and professions – masculine and feminine forms
• Gender of adjectives
• Adjectives with opposite meaning
• Countries and nationalities
• Demonstrative pronouns
• Possessive pronouns
• Conjugation of verbs to have, to be in present tense
• Wh- words

 

November

• Conjugation of verbs of various classes in present tense
• Nominative plural of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative pronouns
• Declension paradigm – introduction (cases, their meaning, usage)
• Accusative singular of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative and possessive pronouns, and numerals
• Accusative singular of personal pronouns
• Assimilation rules
• My house/flat
• Colours
• My family
• Adverbs of place and time
• Cardinal numerals 1-1,000

 

December

• Past tense
• Modal verbs in present and past tense
• Ordinal numerals 1-1000
• My family

 

February

• Imperative
• Comparative and superlative of adjectives

• Accusative plural of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative and possessive pronouns
• Verb aspect (perfective, imperfective verbs)
• Future tense of perfective and imperfective verbs

 

March

• Locative singular of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative and possessive pronouns
• Locative of personal pronouns
• Town. At the airport. At the bank. At the post office.
• Food, Meals. At the restaurant

• Asking for directions
• Writing personal letters, postcards
• Instrumental case of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative and possessive pronouns
• Instrumental case of personal pronouns
• Revision of prepositions 1

 

April

• Dative case of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative and possessive pronouns
• Dative case of personal pronouns

• Genitive case of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative and possessive pronouns
• Genitive case of personal pronouns
• Revision of prepositions 2
• Time and Date
• Daily Routines
• Grammar Revision for the Final Test

 

May

• Grammar Revision for the Final Exam
• Final Exam
• Correction of the final test, evaluation.

 

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

Readings/Bibliography

 

• Kamenárová, Renáta a kol., 2007: Krížom-krážom. Slovenčina A 1. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského.
• 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 (Bilingual visual dictionary). 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 reading and listening comprehension, oral and written summaries of texts, dictations, translations, grammar (theory and exercises), producing dialogues, didactic games etc.

Assessment methods

Students are required to:

·         Attend the classes and prepare regularly for the lessons,

·         Pass a mid-term and a final exam. Midterm exam (November) is in a form of a written test, and represents 40 % of the final grade. Final exam consists of a written test and an oral exam, each of them representing 30 % of the final grade.

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

Teaching tools

PTP, CD player (audio material), video, visual aids (grammar maps, pictures, cards)

Links to further information

http://• www.saia.sk (borse di studio in Slovacchia)

Office hours

See the website of Dagmar Roberts