Polish Beginners Level 3 – Course Outline
According to group goals, the teacher may do more or less than this, and may not need to cover everything in the list below!
Topics & Vocabulary:
- Revision of the most important topics covered by the previous courses
- Time: months of the year
- Talking about the future, future plans and expressing future wishes
- Travel and Sightseeing: making bookings/enquiries (on the phone and via e-mail)
- Geographical directions: North, East, South, West
- Accommodation: household objects and appliances, renting and furnishing an apartment
- Asking for/giving directions and information
- Describing and comparing places – houses, flats, rooms, etc.
- Longer answer phone message: listening to and leaving
- Listening to and participating in longer phone conversations
- Weather: small talk, weather forecast, seasons
- Health: symptoms, visiting a doctor, healthy lifestyle – giving advice, making a phone call
- Appearances and looks: body parts, describing people
- Reading and writing longer e-mails, advertisements and text messages
- Writing/reading postcards from holidays
Grammar:
- Revision & practice of previous level grammar
- Future Tense Imperfective
- Future time clauses
- New verbs and verbs conjugation in the future
- Declension of nouns
- Prepositions + Locative
- Word-building: diminutive suffixes, adjectives – adverbs. More linking words (either… or… / neither… nor…)
- Clauses with “że” (‘that’)
Cultural Content:
- Polish “texting” conventions
- Read simple authentic Polish press articles
Skills Work:
- Lots of speaking – inc. situational exercises & interaction
- Writing practice – e.g. new years resolutions, postcards, online and letter reservations, replying to letters
- Plenty of listening activities