UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses
Welsh Level 1+
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of Welsh 1, or equivalent
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of this course is to enable students to function at a basic everyday survival level.
Students should be able to communicate and understand Welsh on a number of practical
every day matters. The course will introduce themes towards understanding Welsh linguistics,
literature, and culture. Language learning skills, including autonomous learning and how to
approach some authentic material will be enhanced.
Functions
Flexibility is offered on each Welsh course, so that students can negotiate course content and
get what they want or need from the course. Students may suggest topics and linguistic
structures be added or removed, subject to the tutor’s agreement.
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Describing a city
Talking about events in the past
Talking about family and heritage
Describing a picture: position and emotion
Talking about the daily routine
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Home towns and themes in one’s own identity
Holidays
Daily life
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Developing competence in speaking, including intonation and unfamiliar sounds
Grammar
At all levels, students will be introduced to and have the ability to practice fundamental
grammar, including the present tense, initial consonantal mutation, emphatic clauses,
negation, and interrogative forms.
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Developing grammar concepts relevant to Welsh
Types of tense in Welsh: long form vs short form
Past tense sentence structure
Possessive adjectives
How identity affects language in an individual and in society
Learning Resources
Books
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King, Gareth ‘Basic Welsh’
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