32181 - Slovak (Language)

Course contents

Vocabulary / Conversation topics:

At the restaurant, food, meals

At the university

Time and Date

Days of the week, months, seasons of the year

Daily Routines

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

Declension paradigm – introduction (cases, their meaning, usage)

Accusative singular and plural of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative and possessive pronouns, and numerals

Accusative prepositions

Modal verbs in present

Instrumental case singular and plural of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative and possessive pronouns

Instrumental prepositions

Past tense, Modal verbs in past tense

Locative case singular and plural of nouns, adjectives, demonstrative and possessive pronouns

Locative prepositions

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

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

Links to further information

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

Office hours

See the website of Renata Kamenarova