Finnish 4 (3cr)

Objective

Students are more confident in using Finnish in everyday situations. They are able to tell and write about their daily life by using typical expressions in Finnish and to communicate in everyday situations, such as telling wellbeing, recycling and future plans. Students are able to talk about things in the plural. Students have also expanded their knowledge of Finnish culture.

Content

- future plans
- health and wellbeing (Level A1 - A2)
- recycling and everyone's rights
- expressing politeness
- essential grammar e.g. plural and i-plural, ordinal numbers, postpositions and contitional.

Qualifications

Finnish 1, Finnish 2, Finnish 3

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student knows some vocabulary learnt during the course. They can use simple sentences but mistakes can impede comprehension. They communicate in some everyday situations when helped. They understand slow and clearly articulated speech to some extent. They recognize the topic of written texts and understands some words and expressions in them. The student is able to write short and simple texts, but mistakes impede comprehension. Other languages strongly influence the pronunciation.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student knows the most of the vocabulary learnt during the course. They can use simple sentences making a few mistakes. They manage independently in the most everyday situations, mistakes do not impede comprehension. They understands most of the normal speed speech and the content of written texts. They is able to write mainly understandable texts while still making some mistakes. The pronunciation is mainly understandable.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student knows the vocabulary learnt during the course. They can use simple sentences making hardly any mistakes. They manages independently and fluently in everyday situations. They understand normal speed speech and the content of written texts. They can write understandable texts, which may contain minor mistakes.The pronunciation is close to that of a native speaker.

Materials

Gehring, S. & Heinzmann, S.: Suomen mestari 1. Helsinki: Finn Lectura.

Gehring, Sonja & Heinzmann, Sanni: Suomen mestari 2. Helsinki: Finn Lectura.

Material on Moodle platform

Further information

The target level of the course is A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.