Kaisa_2012_3_photo by Veikko Somerpuro
Timetable
Registration and fee
Description
For students who have completed the Finland 2B course (A2.1.) or have equivalent competence.
Language skill level descriptions
Which course is appropriate for my needs? With the Finnish language skills test you can assess which course to take.
For students who have completed the Finnish 2B course (A2.1.) or have equivalent competence.
Language skill level descriptions
Which course is appropriate for my needs? With the Finnish language skills test you can assess which course to take.
After completing the course, you will
- Be able to talk about past events in all tenses
- Be able to talk about your education and work history, as well as any career plans
- Be able to talk about the festivities and customs of your own culture
- Be able to discuss and express opinions on nature conservation, culture, arts and consumption
- Be able to read and write simple brief texts related to the course topics
- Be proficient in polite requests and able to talk about conditional events
- Be familiar with the functions of the passive voice and able to use it in suggestions, narration and colloquial Finnish
- Be able to use colloquial expressions appropriately
- Know how parallel language use can support interaction
- Be able to negotiate the languages to be used in communication and tell your partner in dialogue what promotes your understanding
- Be familiar with Finnish holidays and customs, as well as Finnish cultural life and arts
- Target proficiency level A2.2
- Extending vocabulary for service encounters, education and work; studying vocabulary related to culture, arts and nature conservation
- Studying basic language structures (perfect and past perfect tense, plural local cases, possessive suffixes, plural partitive and genitive cases, the conditional mood, passive present tense, the zero person construction)
- Practising writing simple non-fiction texts
- Practising fluent verbal communication in both everyday conversation and official service encounters; practising the characteristics of colloquial Finnish
- Practising multilingual communication situations and analysing factors promoting/hindering understanding
- Advancing cultural knowledge (festivities and customs) and expanding related vocabulary
- The course consists of contact teaching, pair and group work, as well as independent study.
- Students are expected to actively participate during classes and complete home assignments.
- Attendance of 80% is strongly recommended.
- Gehring – Heinzmann,Suomen mestari 2 (chapters 5–8)
- Gehring – Heinzmann –Päivärinne –Udd, Suomen mestari 3 (chapters 1–2)
(not included in the course fee)
Written and oral assignments during the course and a final examination. Examinations can be written or oral.
- On scale 0-5
- The assessment is based on a final examination, course assignments, if any, and participation during the course.
- The weight given to the different assessment factors will be announced at the beginning of the course.
Written and oral assignments during the course and a final examination. Examinations can be written or oral.
Online course
Online lectures (Zoom) 56 hours, written and oral online assignments + final exam
Dates for online lectures will be announced during November 2020 (see Timatable).
Instructions for completing the course and attending Zoom lectures can be found in Moodle.
Online learning environment Moodle opens opens on January 11, 2021.
How to get the Moodle-link and course key?
Next day after registration: log into this study programme with your University of Helsinki username.
You will receive more information on the username after registration.
Final exam:
Online exam (Moodle)
Exam instructions and exam dates are told in Moodle
No need to register for the exam!