Polish Course - Level A2 (I) CES-PolishA2
Lektorat (LEK) Semestr zimowy 2023/2024

A. Burkat, A. Jasińska “Hurra! Po polsku 2”,

I. Stempek, A. Stelmach”Polski,krok po kroku. Poziom A2”

M. Pasieka “Język polski dla cudzoziemców. Ćwiczenia dla początkujących”

The student at this level knows basic vocabulary related to everyday life as well as rules of pronounciation, accentuation and intonation. The students possesses the skills to understand simple statements, expressions, and the most commonly used words and phrases in everyday life (shopping, work, studying, public transport, family, health, interests, etc.), and can comprehend the main sense of simple, short announcements and messages .Can catch the main point in a short, clear, simple messages and announcements.The student knows vocabulary, grammatical structures and commonly used terminology, typical for written communiqués used in everyday life. Knows the structure of polish sentence.Knows how to express his opinions, and preferences, agree or disagree, express his/her hope and fear, compare, ect. Student can communicate in a simple and routine tasks on familiar topics and activities. Can take part in a everyday’s situations like: buying tickets, room reservations, talks with a doctor, ect. Can handle short social exchanges, even though can’t usually understand enough to keep the conversation going himself/ herself.: The student at this level has a vocabulary and grammatical structures sufficient to construct simple statements and presentations on basic topics (introducing oneself, description of the family, place of residence, information regarding work and studies, education, hobbies, free time, plans for the future, express his/ her ideas connected with relation with other people, emotions , ect.Student can use a series of phrases and sentences to describe in a simple terms his/ her family, other people, living conditions, background, his/hes present, past and future.The student knows the rules of spelling and grammar as well as vocabulary necessary for the construction of short simple written statements. Student can write simple notes using the most popular vocabulary.He/she can write simple private letters, mails, applications, mails, short stories.Student at the end of this course can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance(e.g. basic personal and family information, local geography, employment, people relations). Students can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Students can describe in simple terms of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

Assessment

100 points of the whole semestral mark consists of:

Mid- term 30 points

Final exam 50 points

Homework, compositions, mini-tests 10 points

Presence and activity during the class 10 points (only 2 absences during one semester is accepted, 3 coming late are treated like one absence.)

MID-TERM (parts: grammar, reading comprehension, vocabulary and communication, writing)

FINAL – EXAM

written part 40 points: listening comprehension, grammar, reading comprehension, vocabulary and communication, writing;

oral part 10 points: presentation and the talk on a chosen theme

(during oral part: keeping to the theme, pronounciation, grammar, richness of the vocabulary, fluency)

HOMEWORK: after each closed part of the material(after each lesson)- form of a test given home(compilation of the grammar and vocabulary from the lesson)

COMPOSITION: after each part of the material short essay, letter, comparison, ect. to write at home. On a separate sheet of paper, preferred handwriting with a marginal at the left. 50-100 words. Criteria (and points)taken into consideration during marking all the compositions:

Contents(and how does it fit to, fulfils the theme, and rules of a certain statement, e.g. a letter)

Vocabulary(words and expressions)

Grammar

Orthography.

Students can be asked also to read a longer text, poem or think over a subject given by the teacher. Its treated also as a homework as it can be a subject of the next lesson.

Students are obliged to make all the given grammar exercises and bring back them to the teacher(the exercises are not graded- only checked)and to fill the grammar book with the key. The book will be checked.

VOCABULARY LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

AND SITUATIONS GRAMMAR

1. Personality

-description of a person

- qualities Reading

Prepared texts: “Tell me what colour

you like and I ‘ll tell you who are you”

Listening:

description of famous people, an interview, mini-dialogues

Speaking:

Describing people from then closest surroundings, expressing opinions on well-known people

Writing:

a private letter

Functional language:

-expressing opinions

-comparing

- Nominative plural of masculine personal adjectives

- Structures: tak samo….jak,

- Relative pronoun: który

- Conjunctions: a, i, albo, ale

2. Work

-work, time of work, earnings, working conditions Reading:

-people speaking about their job

Listening:

Jobs- presentation, opinions work- people speaking

Speaking:

Expressing an opinion about working conditions and work

Writing:

Preparing an announcement - looking for a candidate for a work, looking for a job.

Functional language:

Discussion, expressing an opinion, generalizing. Nominative plural of masculine personal nouns and pronouns

Pronouns każdy and wszyscy

3. Family story.

- Human’s life from the beginning to the end

- dates Reading:

The story of one family.

Polish Noblists.

Listening:

Catching a difference between cardinal and ordinal numerals

Dialog between old friends.

Speaking:

Speaking about past; situations and facts.

Writing:

Writing a family story in the past tense.

Functional language:

Presenting facts from the past , using time relations connected with past

Past tense (of the imperfective and perfective verbs).

Dates( cardinal and ordinal numbers)

4. Plans for the future

-school, education system, courses Reading:

Specialistic course offers .

Opinions about young people’s chances .

Listening:

An interview , mini-presentations of people and their education, choice of courses.

Speaking:

Plans for the future.

Writing:

Description of a Polish education system basing on statistic data.

Little story from school times.

Functional language:

Expressing positive and negative feelings, expressing a condition, discussion about future plans Future tense of the imperfective and perfective verbs and of the modal verbs.

Conditional sentences with the conjunction : jeśli / jeżeli

5. City.

Life in the city, infrastructure, architecture, entertainment. Reading:

Why city is so attractive to the young people?- argumentation.

Listening:

Descriptions of different Polish cities.

Mini-dialogues in Infrastructure, monuments, public places.

Speaking:

Comparing life in a big and a small city – justification.

Writing:

My home city.

Functional language:

Comparing, justifying, describing the life in the city. Comparison of adjectives.

6. Country and the nature.

Life in the country. Typical country places. Environment.

Reading:

Why living in the country is more healthy?

Listening:

Mini- dialogues.

Argumentation.

Speaking:

Justifying own choices. Argumentation: advantages and disadvantages of living in the country.

Writing:

Argumentation: City or country?

Functional language:

Comparing, justifying, expressing certainty. Comparison of adverbs.

7. People relations- man and woman.

Family, marriage, couple, love, the world of emotions. Reading:

Text on the reasons of divorces.

Listening:

People talking about problems in their relationships.

Speaking:

Telling about relations, differences between man and woman’s emotions, expressing their wishes and powinnosci.

Writing:

Matrimonial announcement.

Functional language:

Expressing wishes, expectations, powinności.

Complex sentences. Object clauses: clause introducer że in opposition to clause introducer żeby.

8. Friendship.

Relations with other people (cont.) Reading:

Are you a good friend?

People’s thoughts about friends.

Listening:

What’s the friendship?

Talks about friends.

Speaking:

Talks about friends and friendship.

Writing:

My friend – description of a person.

Functional language:

Expressing supposition and term. Wish, proposal, ask, likes and dislikes.

The conditional mood.

Dative.

Reflexive particle się

9. Inventions and technology.

Inventions and technology and their use in everyday’s life. Reading:

A letter with a complaint.

Listening:

Dialogues at the service points.

Describing inventions and technology.

Speaking:

Expressing the satisfaction and dissatisfaction.

Dialogues in the service points.

Writing:

A letter with a complaint.

Functional language:

Expressing the satisfaction and dissatisfaction.

Lodging a complaint.

The passive adjectival participle.

The passive form.

10. Mood and feelings

Health, healthy style of life. Mood. Reading:

The text about what decides of our mood.

Listening:

Short speeches about people’s mood.

Doradzanie I odradzanie.

Speaking:

Doradzanie I odradzanie.

Speaking about health way of life. Asking for advice and giving the answer.

Writing;

Short article about healthy life or answering for a request concerning healthy life.

Functional language:

Expressing positive and negative feelings.

Asking for a mood. The imperative mood.

Aspect of the verb in the imperative mood.

Conjugation of th verb:powinien.

11. Tourism.

Tourism and travels. Reading:

Travel offers.

Listening:

Encouraging and discouraging for different forms of spending our time.

An interview with a owner of travel agency.

Speaking:

Localization in space.

Advantages and disadvantages of different forms of spending time.

Writing:

A private letter.

Functional language:

Encouraging and discouraging.

Telling about travels. Prepositional phrases expressing spatial relations.

12. Holidays and tradition.

Holidays , wishes and tradition. Reading:

People recollect their holidays.

Listening:

Wishes, paying respects. Describing holidays and celebrations.

Speaking:

Speaking about holidays.

Writing:

Holiday’s post cards.

Describing holidays from the past.

Functional language:Expressing regret, sorrow, compassion and joy.

Wishing and congratulating.

Complex sentences.

Coordinate sentences.

Subordinate sentences: Subordinate relative clauses of time and of place.

13. Internet.

Vocabulary connected with internet.

Elements of colloquial vocabulary. Reading:

People about changes in their lives caused by Internet.

Listening:

Internet in our life.

Official and unofficial language.

Speaking:

Encouraging to buy a new computer equipment.

Talks about Internet in our lives.

Functional language:

Expressing astonishment and surprise. Attributive relative clauses.

Subordinate clauses of purpose.

14. Cinema or TV?

Cinema, TV, free time. Reading:

Different types of programmes.

TV and cinema programme

Listening:

Let’s go to the cinema.

People’s preferences.

Presentation of the cinema offer.

Speaking:

Opinions about film.

TV, its function in a world.

Writing:

A review.

Functional language:

Quotation, expressing own opinion.

Subordinate clause of reason or cause.

Direct speech.

Reported speech.