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Course description: Higher Advanced Plus听is for those who completed Advanced Plus or who have an excellent knowledge of the Slovak language acquired through regular visits to Slovakia or through self-study. The aim of the course is to give students an opportunity to revise, consolidate, and build on the skills they acquired at Advanced Plus. The course runs over three ten week terms and each session is two hours long. The course includes all four skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening. The course will cover the following:

Aims:

• to achieve a solid level of language proficiency in order to handle the normal range of social matters
• to reinforce and to extend the previous knowledge
• to develop the ability to use the Slovak language effectively for purposes of practical communication
• to infer low-frequency word meaning or anything clearly implied but not explicitly stated
• to offer insights into the culture, history and current affairs of Slovakia

Outcomes:

• To follow and contribute to complex interactions with third parties in group discussions and debates, even on abstract, complex, unfamiliar topics
• To be able to cope linguistically to negotiate a solution using persuasive language
• To develop awareness and familiarisation with regional accents and social register
• To acquire a good command of a broad lexical repertoire allowing gaps to be readily overcome with circumlocution and repair techniques
• To communicate in speech, showing knowledge of a range and variety of vocabulary and of appropriate register in routine tasks
• To be able to use Slovak language flexibly and effectively for social purposes, including emotional, allusive and joking usage and to recognise idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms

Objectives:

• To demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively, with a degree of fluency and spontaneity, with a native speaker.
• To use the Slovak language flexibly and effectively for social and professional purposes
• To be able to outline an issue or a problem clearly, speculating about causes or consequences, and weighing advantages and disadvantages of different approaches

Personal Domain:

• Topics chosen according to students鈥� interest
• Job related, business orientated topics
• Reporting on events and matters of public interest
• Commenting, negotiating, and preparing presentations
• Reading between the lines: detecting non-explicit content in texts
• Practicing advanced translation from and into Slovak
• Making travel arrangements (booking flight, hotel room, buying a railway ticket)
• Discussing in simple terms differences in culture, attitude, customs and practice
• Planning holiday
• Talking about personal interests and leisure activities
• Talking about holidays, past experiences and future plans
• Expressing personal views and preferences on simple matters
• Discussing day-to-day activities and routines
• Inviting guests to an event and agreeing a date/place/time
• Cultural issues, celebrations or events
• Discussing in simple terms differences in culture, attitude, customs and practice

Public/ Occupational Domain:

• Sports events (olympijsk茅 hry, majster sveta, dr啪ite木ka zlatej medaily, svetov茅 prvenstvo)
• Tourism (pr铆rodn茅 kr谩sy, pr铆rodn茅 rezerv谩cie, n谩rodn茅 parky, kult煤rne pamiatky, hrad je na zozname UNESCO, n谩rodn茅 pamiatky)
• Banking system (Guvern茅r n谩rodnej banky Slovenska, platobn谩 karta, 煤verov谩 karta, otvori钮 si 煤膷et)
• Public health (zdravotn茅 poistenie, infekcia, k煤pe木n谩 lie膷ba)
• Cultural life (kult煤rne dedi膷stvo, n谩rodn茅 zvyky a trad铆cie)
• Religion and customs (ve木kono膷n茅 sviatky, oblieva膷ka a 拧iba膷ka, oslava, hody)
• Public services (po啪iarna ochrana, hasi膷i, mestsk媒 vodovod, smetiari, odvoz odpadu)
• Shopping for everyday items; describing something you wish to buy, expressing quantity, colour and size; expressing likes and dislikes; asking for prices, understanding currency
• Travelling by public transport; buying tickets, understanding timetables, asking for information about travel, telling the time
• 听Making travel arrangements (booking flight, hotel room, buying a railway ticket)
• Arranging bookings with restaurants, hotels etc., stating facilities, dates and number of persons and making simple enquiries
• Buying tickets for the theatre, the cinema, the museum or other events stating dates and number of persons and making simple enquiries
• Current affairs (aktu谩lne spr谩vy, najnov拧ie udalosti, politick媒 koment谩r)
• IT (internet, ochrana proti v铆rusom,听@ zavin谩膷, posla钮 esemesku, posla钮 email)
• Diplomatic life (膹akovn媒 list, poverovacie listiny, pr铆hovor, sl谩vnostn谩 re膷)
• Cultural issues or events (oslava pri pr铆le啪itosti D艌a 鈥�)

Functions:

• understanding connectors that indicate relationship between ideas
• expressing different opinions, inviting to join a discussion
• to speculate and expressing 鈥淚F鈥�
• making complaints
• giving instructions
• expressing likes and dislikes using idioms
• understanding short texts from Slovak literature and lyrics
• understating headlines from Slovak newspapers
• describing skills, wishes, plans
• making direct and indirect requests
• summarising conversation, applying direct and indirect speech

Grammar:

• plural forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns
• complete declension
• prepositions and their relations with declensions
• reflexive verbs
• perfective and imperfective verbs
• word order
• conjunctions
• particles
• possessive pronouns: in genitive and dative
• imperative
• speculative sentences
• conditional
• English modal verbs and their Slovak equivalents (should, ought 鈥�)

Course Books:

• Kr铆啪om 鈥� kr谩啪om, Sloven膷ina B1, kolekt铆v and CD, ISBN 978-80-223-3035-0
• Kr铆啪om 鈥� kr谩啪om, Sloven膷ina Cvi膷ebnica A1 plus A2, kolekt铆v, ISBN 978-80-223-2809-8
• Colloquial Slovak by James Naughton and CD, ISBN978-0-415-49634-6
• Bespoke material
• Bespoke teacher鈥檚 material (samples from Slovak literature and Slovak media)
• Useful Reference Material:

• Slovak without teacher, ISBN 80-85408-03-1
• Mal媒 frazeologick媒 slovn铆k by Elena Smie拧kov谩. (Slovak idioms) ISBN 80-08-00009-0
• Slovak for you, ISBN 0-86516-331-6
• Anglicko-Slovensk媒 prekladov媒 slovn铆k ISBN 80-88723-67-1
• Slovensko-Anglick媒 prekladov媒 slovn铆k ISBN 80-88723-67-1
• The Guide to The Peoples of Europe , The Times, ISBN 0-7230-0624-5
• A History of Slovakia by Stanislav. Kirsbaum, ISBN 0333681029
• Modern Slovak prose by Pynsent, R B. 0-333-51596-X

Websites:

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