Study Guide

Learning objectives

You can communicate and give information in familiar, everyday situations, form different sentences and give simple instructions, describe your immediate surroundings, and use different materials and tools in language learning. You learn to write short texts on familiar topics, recognise features of everyday language, understand clear speech, and to read short texts about familiar situations and predictable topics. You will be able to derive meanings based on the context and follow an interaction situation. Essentially, you can understand content and react logically. You can also communicate proactively in familiar interaction situations, know about phenomena related to the Finnish lifestyle (e.g. celebration traditions, various weekends, and music life), tell about things that are important to you (e.g. hobbies, preferences), act in everyday situations (buying/shopping for food, going to a restaurant, using public transportation, visiting the health centre). You will increase your vocabulary, develop your language skills (Life Long Learning) and your cultural competence also on your own.

Content

You will deepen your knowledge of Swedish with a larger vocabulary and phrases. You can express yourself more specifically in different situations, such as in public transportation where you will also be able to read the timetables, describe the environment, the most common occupations. You know work-related words and learn more about working life. The most common verbs, words relating to celebrations and leisure are deepened, as is vocabulary for food and drinks. Functioning in everyday life, such as shopping in a store or taking care of your health, is included in the content of the course. Grammar structures, including information about how to express places (adverbs), prepositions, definite and indefinite nouns, and plural genitive and tense forms (past tense) are also covered.