Study Guide

Teaching methods

This course is held in the spring in the second academic year. Language skills will be tested in the end of this course. The additional 10% of the scholarship is based on the student’s level of proficiency in the Finnish language.

Teaching methods include voluntary, but recommended contact lessons (online or campus), discussions and practice-based exercises, oral and written assignments in Moodle and exam.

After completion of the course, the student is able to:
- tell about his or her profession and work as well as daily life in versatile ways in Finnish
- notice the differences between spoken and written language and to use them in appropriate ways
- understand easy, topical news in media

Content of the course is as follows:
a)Grammar in the level B1.1, e.g.
- comparison of adjectives
- time and conditional tenses of passive
- noun cases essive and translative

b)Vocabulary and phrases e.g. about
- Finnish history and society
- professional environment and work.
- discuss about topical things and cultural differences
- write short, formal and informal texts e.g. in email
- outline the history of Finland and how the society has developed especially in the point of view of own profession
- reach the language level B1.1 in the professional context in writing, reading, listening and speaking

Alternative implementation methods

Full RPL possible according to e.g. YKI3 result

Student workload

135 h consisting of lessons, independent studying and exam

Qualifications

This course in Savonia completed or RPL: Tämä kurssi Savoniassa tai AHOT: - Communicating in Finnish 3 cr

Materials

Suomen mestari 3: chapters 1-4
material in Moodle

Further information

Prerequisite for taking this course: The student has completed the course Communicating in Finnish (3 cr) or gained RPL for it.

Teaching methods

The fourth course of Finnish, where students practice speaking and learn more grammar.

We will speak about environment, culture, society and learn to write e-mails in Finnish.

During grammar sessions, we will mainly focus on conditional, passive voice, verbs and imperative.

Alternative implementation methods

RPL: YKI-3 or other certificate of language proficiency testing (B1.1)

Student workload

24 hours lessons on campus
12 hours of preparing for lessons in Moodle
35 hours of online tasks in Moodle
10 hours exam (preparing and taking the exam)
in total 81 hours of studying

Practical training and working life cooperation

Dialogs and vocabulary

Qualifications

This course in Savonia completed or RPL: Tämä kurssi Savoniassa tai AHOT: - Communicating in Finnish 3 cr

Materials

Suomen mestari 3, chapters 1-4
material in Moodle

Further information

This course is held in the spring in the second academic year. Language skills will be tested in the end of this course. The additional 10% of the scholarship is based on the student’s level of proficiency in the Finnish language (grade 3, 4 or 5).

All previous Finnish courses must be passed before the beginning of this course.

Teaching methods

The fourth course of Finnish, where students practice speaking and learn more grammar.

Alternative implementation methods

RPL: YKI-3 or other certificate of language proficiency testing (B1.1)

Student workload

39 hours lessons + preparing week tests
32 hours of online tasks in Moodle
10 hours exam (preparing and taking the exam)
in total 81 hours of studying

Practical training and working life cooperation

Dialogs and vocabulary

Qualifications

This course in Savonia completed or RPL: Tämä kurssi Savoniassa tai AHOT: - Communicating in Finnish 3 cr

Materials

Suomen mestari 3, chapters 1 - 4
material in Moodle

Further information

This course is held in the spring in the second academic year. Language skills will be tested in the end of this course.

The additional 10% of the scholarship is based on the student’s level of proficiency in the Finnish language (grade 3, 4 or 5).

Teaching methods

The fourth course of Finnish, where students practice speaking and learn more grammar.

We will speak about environment, culture, society and learn to write e-mails in Finnish.

During grammar sessions, we will mainly focus on conditional, passive voice, verbs and imperative.

Alternative implementation methods

RPL: YKI-3 or other certificate of language proficiency testing (B1.1)

Student workload

24 hours lessons on campus
12 hours of preparing for lessons in Moodle
35 hours of online tasks in Moodle
10 hours exam (preparing and taking the exam)
in total 81 hours of studying

Practical training and working life cooperation

Dialogs and vocabulary

Qualifications

This course in Savonia completed or RPL: Tämä kurssi Savoniassa tai AHOT: - Communicating in Finnish 3 cr

Materials

Suomen mestari 3, chapters 1-4
material in Moodle

Further information

This course is held in the spring in the second academic year. Language skills will be tested in the end of this course. The additional 10% of the scholarship is based on the student’s level of proficiency in the Finnish language (grade 3, 4 or 5).

All previous Finnish courses must be passed before the beginning of this course.

Teaching methods

The fourth course of Finnish, where students practice speaking and learn more grammar.

Alternative implementation methods

RPL: YKI-3 or other certificate of language proficiency testing (B1.1)

Student workload

39 hours lessons + preparing week tests
32 hours of online tasks in Moodle
10 hours exam (preparing and taking the exam)
in total 81 hours of studying

Practical training and working life cooperation

Dialogs and vocabulary

Qualifications

This course in Savonia completed or RPL: Tämä kurssi Savoniassa tai AHOT: - Communicating in Finnish 3 cr

Materials

Suomen mestari 3, chapters 1 - 4
material in Moodle

Further information

This course is held in the spring in the second academic year. Language skills will be tested in the end of this course.

The additional 10% of the scholarship is based on the student’s level of proficiency in the Finnish language (grade 3, 4 or 5).