E-learning Polish Course A2 asynchronous online language course (platform based without scheduled video classes)

foreign languages

I would like to underline that the course is intended for self-study. It means that at the beginning of each week, a new module opens with instructions, exercises, records, videos, etc. and you decide how much and when you study. However, at the end of each module, there is a short quiz - mandatory for everyone. The quiz results are included in the final assessment. Tests close automatically on given time.

Within the course we do not have assigned online video classes (on zoom).

However I will offer you some additional (NOT OBLIGATORY) video consulatation if its needed.

Topic areas:

- People (family, sex, age, nationality, language, profession, appearance, free time activities, hobbies)

- Home/Apartments (kinds of apartments and houses, locations, furnishings);

- Places (towns, public institutions, places of interest);

- Everyday life (activities, shops, services, objects, measures, qualities, money, means of transportations, things of everyday use, work);

- Food and drink (dishes, courses, drinks, restaurants);

- Health (hygiene, mental and physical condition, visit a doctor);

- Environment (weather, climate).

Linguistic function and comprehension:

- Initiating of contact (introducing, greeting, farewell, extending wishes to sb., expressing gratefulness and apology, inviting)

- Starting up conversations, maintaining them and ending them;

- Questions, requests, propositions;

- Offering to do something;

- Expressing doubt, approval, disapproval, negation;

- Expressing sympathy, antipathy, hope, well wishes, satisfaction, dissatisfaction;

General reactions and ways of expression: personal attributes, characteristics of some objects, ownership, spatial relationship, temporal relationships, possibilities, skills, necessities

Grammatical problems:

- Phonetics and spelling – pronunciation of Polish sounds, intonation;

- Declension – grammatical gender of nouns and adjectives, regular case forms in the singular and plural; cases – the Instrumental, the Accusative, the Genitive (revision), the Locative, the Nominative Plural, Dative, The Genitive Plural.

- Conjugation – Present, Past and the Future Tense, Introduction to the aspect of verbs, modal verbs, Imperative: proszę + Infinitive;

- Syntax – word order, questions, basic compound sentences, cardinal and ordinal numbers in time expressions, adverbs.

* due to the COVID-19 regulations of the UW administration, the syllabi could have been accordingly adjusted. The lecturers provided you with the information via the USOSmail.

On- line materials, own materials prepared by the teacher.

A.Domańska, P.Kajak, K.Kołak, M.Stasieczek-Górna, A. Rabczuk, Zaczynamy. E-book do nauki języka polskiego jako obcego na poziomie A. Polonicum.

Having completed this course students understand and they can use colloquial expressions and simple phrases concerning everyday activities. They can formulate questions concerning places they live, people they know and things they posses, as well as answer such questions. They con introduced themselves and others. They can participate in a simple conversation providing that an interlocutor speaks slowly, clearly and is ready to help.

- systematic, self-directed work;

- Regular continuous grading (preparation, participation, echa module's tests and quizes);

- final test