UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses
Norwegian Level 4
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Norwegian level 3+ at UCL Language Centre or equivalent.
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students who already have a good knowledge of
Norwegian to acquire an advanced level. Students will be able to communicate in most
situations in a Norwegian context, converse with native speakers and follow debates on a
wide range of issues as well as express themselves with more complexity. Cultural awareness
will be further developed and raised.
Functions
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Discussing opinions, reactions and obligations
Debating, commenting, explaining, describing events
Express nuance in both opinion and pragmatic requirements
Ability to express insecurity outside the linguistic code
Improving listening and reading skills using various authentic material
Presentations of everyday material and topics.
Skills in the acquisition of knowledge and information from individuals and
institutions in Norway
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
The course content of this syllabus will be based around a reflection on the nature of
contemporary society and current affairs. The topic may include the following (as
appropriate, depending on students’ interests):
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Educational institutions
Overview of literary figures and main artists
The countryside in Norway. Climate and ecology.
Spelling
Science and technology in Norway
Folk tales and oral traditions
Focus on some specific artists and writers, Ibsen, Hamsun, Munch and Grieg
Historical focus, emigration and immigration
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Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Speech patterns, rhythm and stress. Tone.
Grammar
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Genitive use incl. prepositional
Further practice of possessive-reflexive pronouns
Adverbial compositions
Word order shifts, category conversion, suffixes, verb-noun/noun-verb/verbadjective etc.
More irregular verbs
Spelling conventions
Relative and subordinate clauses
More conjunctions and subjunctions
Learning Resources
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A compendium of authentic texts and articles for reading comprehension and detailed
syntactical features.
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A large dictionary
Cappelen: “Stor Norsk-Engelsk” “Stor Engelsk-Norsk”, Oslo or
Kunnskapsforlaget: “Stor Engelsk” + “Stor Norsk” ordbok, Oslo
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Advanced Grammar:
Golden, MacDonald, Ryen: Norsk som fremmedspråk. Grammatikk, Universitetsforlaget,
Oslo
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On spelling, punctuation and writing conventions:
Finn-Erik Vinje: Skriveregler, Aschehoug, Oslo.
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Online monolingual dictionaries:
http://www.dokpro.uio.no/perl/ordboksoek/ordbok.cgi
http://www.ordnett.no/ordbok.html
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Norwegian online Encyclopedia:
http://www.caplex.no/
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