Norwegian 1.

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Course Summary
For beginners. The students will be introduced to the Norwegian language. They will begin by learning how to greet people and introduce themselves and others. While learning the basics of Norwegian pronunciation and grammar, they will learn how to talk about their families, daily routines, telling the time and talking about food and drink. There will be a variety of classroom activities covering reading, speaking, writing and listening. The pace of the class should suit all abilities, enabling students to familiarise themselves with the Norwegian language.

Pre-requisites for enrolment

No previous knowledge is required.

Content of Course

General introduction. Greetings and simple questions: who are you? where do you come from? where do you live? Simple sentence structure/word order Alphabet, spelling, family relations, numbers. Gender, personal pronouns, simple genitive, auxiliary verbs. Telling the time, what you do and when you do it, weekdays. Strings of verbs, present and infinitive. Food and drink. Position of negative. What do you want to drink/eat? Likes and dislikes, shopping, weights/measures, polite forms. Preposition of adverbials, gender. Definite article, 'Norwegian' genitive. Activities, talk about what you do, going to a cafe. Prepositions. Going to the kiosk, post office, bank and library, ordinal numbers, weather. Nouns and pronouns, prepositions. Months, seasons, filling in forms, ID. Declension of adjectives, inversion of subject/verb after adverbials of time and place.

Teaching method/s
The course is tutorial based with a combination of whole class activity and group work; use of audiovisual material as teaching aids (audiotapes, CDs, videos and DVDs). In order to fully benefit from the course and to achieve the learning outcomes, you will need to devote 1-2 hours outwith classes to revision and homework.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students should be able to:

Understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. Introduce him/herself and others, and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has. Interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

Course books Essential

Manne, Gerd & Nilsen, Glin Kaurin (2003) Ny i Norge, Oslo, Forlaget Fag og Kultur. ISBN : 9788211001238 The textbook is a necessary purchase. The tutor will order the books on behalf of the students as required following week 1 of the course.

Web Sources
Where appropriate web sources will be provided.

Class Handouts
Handouts will be provided during the course by the tutor.

Assessment
No assessment.

Student Support
Please contact Languages for All Reception on 0131 650 6440 if you think you have any specific study requirements that may need to be put in place to enable you to study a Languages for All course. Giving us this information will enable us to make arrangements to meet your requirements for studying in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.
(We reserve the right to make alterations and to cancel courses where there is insufficient enrolment.) Languages for All, The University of Edinburgh, 11 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW Tel:+44 (131) 650 4400 Email: languagesforall@ed.ac.uk

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