Polish 1

The course, consisting of lectures and practical classes, is aimed at absolute beginners in Polish. The lectures will offer a basic overview of Polish in the frame of Indo-European and Slavonic linguistics: in particular they will focuse upon Polish phonetics and phonology, morphology, as well as upon nominal, adjectival and verbal flection. Practical classes - added to the course but that do not allow to accrue ECTS - aim to acquire and develop written and oral skills, with interaction and mediation competences, in accordance with A2 level as described by the Common European Framework of Reference for languages. Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR) and its subsequent revisions and updates.

Lectures: Knowledge and understanding: 1) Appropriate knowledge of the grammatical and morphosyntactic structures of Polish language presented during the course (level A2), in particular of its phonetic/phonologic system and morphonology; inflectional categories; flection of nouns, adjectives, pronouns and numerals (declinations); comparison of adjectives; flection of verbs (three tenses of the indicative mood); imperative and conditional mood; basic knowledge of the verbal aspect (perfective/imperfective); 2) Identification of those structures in written texts and oral communication; comprehension of the global meaning of the message through the recognition of its communicative aims. Practical classes: Applying knowledge and understanding of Polish language at an elementary waystage level (A2): listening to and comprehension of basic texts (simple discourses on familiar, general and topical issues); reading and understanding short texts on such issues; oral production and interaction in simple communicative contexts (everyday and general subjects); producing elementary written descriptive and expository texts showing an appropriate proficiency in the linguistic structures acquired during the course.