Study Guide

Learning outcomes

The student is able to
- ask about the health and describe their own health.
- describe places, things and people.
- understand and write short messages about everyday life (e.g., invitations, requests, messages of absence).
- understand short messages and advertiments related to celebrations and events.
- tell about matters and events using the most common verbs in the past tense.

Proficiency level: A1

Implementation and methods of teaching

Individual, pair and group work. Online-classes via Zoom.

Timing and attendance

Active participation is required.

Learning material and recommended literature

Materials in Moodle.

Exam retakes

Written and oral exam. The exam dates will be announced at the beginning of the course.

Learning environment

Zoom and Moodle.

Student time use and work load

Approximately 81 hours (meetings + independent studying).

Contents

The course content will be the following:
- health, sickness
- short messages related to studying and working (phone, email)
- must sentence
- verbs can, may and get
- basic information on the plural partitive
- K, P, T -variation
- word types
- basic information on the past tense
- basic information on the object

Additional information for students: previous knowledge etc.

Finnish 1 - 3 -courses or equivalent skills

Assessment criteria

A written and oral exam.

Assessment scale

1-5

Failed (0)

The student has not reached the learning objectives.

Assessment criteria: level 1 (assessment scale 1–5)

The student has reached the learning objectives at a satisfactory level.

Assessment criteria: level 3 (assessment scale 1–5)

The student has reached the learning objectives well.

Assessment criteria: level 5 (assessment scale 1–5)

The student has reached the learning objectives in an excellent way.