BA Modern Language and Business & Management (Russian) / Course details

This course aims to develop skills in reading, listening, speaking and writing Polish. It lays emphasis on communication and comprehension skills but also builds on the grammar base acquired in elementary courses. Topics covered earlier will be revised and extended and new themes introduced which will develop understanding of the society and culture of Poland. Students will be expected to use the range of resources available to them in the Language Centre and to communicate with native speakers, wherever possible, in order to develop cultural competence.

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Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

1. understand the main points of clear, standard speech on familiar matters; and understand the main points of short, clear radio or TV programmes which deal with current affairs or topics of personal interest;
2. understand texts using fairly high frequency, everyday or job-related language;
3. intervene in a conversation if it deals with familiar topics;
4. express, in brief oral exchanges, an opinion or ambition and to give short explanations for these; explain, briefly, a succession of events or to give information of an event;
5. write simple, connected texts on familiar topics or topics of personal interest.

By the end of the course, students should be able to perform at Level A2 of the Common European Framework.

One three-hour seminar per week, delivered through blended learning which integrates on campus and on-line instruction as necessary. This will also include online digital learning available via Blackboard and supplemented by extra online resources to aid students in their independent learning.

Semester one: One written test (20%), one presentation (10%), one dossier mark (10%).

Semester two: One written test (20%), one aural (15%), one oral test (15%), one dossier mark (10%).

Feedback will include a combination of:

• informal ongoing oral and written feedback resulting from homework and class based learning activities;
• formal written feedback will be given following every assessment.

Semester one: Iwona Stempek, Anna Stelmach, Sylwia Dawidek, Aneta Szymkiewicz, Krok po kroku. Polski. Seria podr¿czników do nauki j¿zyka polskiego dla obcokrajowców. Poziom A1/ A2, Kraków 2013, ISBN: 978-83-930731-0-8 (lessons 17-25); Semester 2: Iwona Stempek, Anna Stelmach, Krok po kroku. Polski 2. Seria podr¿czników do nauki j¿zyka polskiego dla obcokrajowców. Poziom A2/ B1, Kraków 2013, ISBN: 978-83-930731-15 (chapters 1-10).

Recommended texts

A Grammar and Workbook by Dana Bielec, 2014, 2nd edition, ISBN-10: 0415726018, ISBN-13: 978-0415726016