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Course description:听Level 3 is for those who have successfully completed the Level 2 Polish Evening Course or a similar course and/or have developed a sound knowledge of the basics of the language through extensive visits to Poland or through self-study. The course runs over three ten-week terms and each session is two hours long. The course includes all four skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening; linguistic and cultural knowledge is reinforced and broaden. On completion of the course students can communicate in most situations and retrieve information from authentic materials.听The course will cover the following:
Topics:
- describing people
- discussing work related issues
- education (Polish system of education and comparison of systems) and life-long learning
- discussing and comparing life in a city and in a countryside
- describing environment and discussing environmental issues
- talking about relationships (friendship and family)
- taking about people鈥檚 life
- introduction to history of Poland
- reading a few important texts in Polish literature
- learning about the most important Polish people
- idioms and proverbs
Functions:
- describing and comparing people
- describing and comparing places, life in a city and life in a countryside
- expressing opinion, agreeing and disagreeing
- talking about past events
- expressing plans for the future
- expressing wishes, desires, possibilities, hopes, expectations
- making suggestions and recommendations
- speculating, making assumptions
- writing letters in different registers
Grammar:
- revision and more in-depth study of covered grammar
- cases (plural forms of Nominative Masculine Personal, Dative)
- usage of linking words
- cardinal and ordinal numbers
- aspect of verbs
- present, past and future conditional
- adverbs and adjectives
- comparison of adverbs and adjectives
- sentences with 偶eby and 偶e
- verbs followed by prepositions and cases
- complex sentences: relative clauses and complement closes
Learning resources:
Course Book
- A. Burkat, A. Jasi艅ska, Hurra po polsku 2, Krakow: Prolog 2002.
Additional material
- I. Stempek, A. Stelmach, Polski Krok po kroku A2, Krakow: Polish-courses.com 2012.
- I. Stempek, Gry i zabawy j臋zykowe. Polski krok po kroku, Krakow: Polish-courses.com 2012.
- E. Lipi艅ska, Z Polskim na ty, Krak贸w: Universitas 2003.
- A. Seretny, A co to takiego? Obrazkowy s艂ownik j臋zyka polskiego, Krak贸w: Universitas 2003.
- M. Szelc-Mays, Nowe s艂owa 鈥� stare rzeczy, Krak贸w: Wydawnictwo Zakonu Pijar贸w 1999.
- J. Machowska, Gramatyka? Ale偶 tak! 膯wiczenia gramatyczne dla poziomu A2, Krakow: Universitas 2011.
- D. Bielec, Polish. An Essential Grammar, London: Routledge 1998.
- K. Janecki, 301 Polish Verbs, New York: Barron鈥檚 Educational Series 2000.
- J. Fisiak, Collins English-Polish and Polish-English Dictionary. Collins s艂ownik angielsko-polski i polsko-angielski, Warszawa: BGW 1997.
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