UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses
Swedish level 1
Course duration
20 hours
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable the students to function at a survival level. The
student should be able to communicate in basic Swedish on a range of personal and
concrete subjects. Language learning skills, including autonomous learning and how
to approach some authentic material will be enhanced.
Course Content: Main topics
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Introductions & Greetings
Family & friends
Work and studies
Leisure, culture & hobbies
The family
Hobbies
Food & drinks - buying food
Numbers 1-100.
Days of the week, month, year
The alphabet
Time
Functions
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Greetings, introducing yourself and others
Telling the time
Giving information about where you live, you address, telephone number et
cetera
Spelling in Swedish
Counting from 1 – 1000
Reading short simple notices
Talking about your hobbies
Planning your leisure time with others
Expressing what you like and don’t like
Talking about events in the present and the future
Talking about the weather
Grammar
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Personal, possessive and relative pronouns
Tenses: the present and the future
Modal verbs (kan, ska, vill, får)
Question words (hur, var, vad, vem, varifrån)
Word order in questions & main clauses
The position of adverbs in main clauses
The noun – declensions
The noun – definite & indefinite endings
The agreement of the adjective
Adverbs of frequency
Prepositions: time & place
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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the pronunciation of spoken Swedish focusing on:
long and short vowels (a o u å e I y ä ö);
stressed & unstressed vowels;
consonants and consonant clusters (ng, ngn);
stressed words in a sentence;
regular intonation patterns.
Learning Resources
Books
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Rivstart A1/A2 main text book and work book. Chapters 1-5. Text book: ISBN
27666856. Work book: ISBN 27666863.
Handouts provided by the tutor.
In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials for self-study
in the Self-Access Centre.
Bilingual Dictionaries
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Bilingual Dictionary (Norstedt).
Reference:
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Swedish grammar in use. ISBN 912750252-X
Common Swedish verbs. ISBN 9197422002
Useful websites:
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Grammar exercises – www. nok.se/rivstart
Book shop on line – www.bokus.com
Swedex - Swedish exams, www.swedex.info
Bookshops:
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Foyles – 113-119 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EB, 44 2074375660
www.foyles.co.uk
BOKUS - on-line shop, www.bokus.se