Curricula

Objective

The students
- develop their vocabulary and their skills of reading and listening comprehension
- are able to discuss contemporary topics and express their opinions and points of view
- give short presentations in Finnish
- are able to distinguish between language registers (informal-neutral-formal)

Content

- Telling about own one’s home country and daily life
- Expressing opinions
- Visiting a doctor or offices
- Telling about one’s own area of studies
- Reading and hearing comprehension, conversations

Qualifications

The students
- have completed Finnish 2 or similar studies
- know how to use basic phrases in everyday situations
- are able to extensively tell about themselves and their daily life

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

5) The students understand standard, spoken Finnish on recurrent themes related to school, work and leisure. They are able to find out key issues for example in the news. The students can cope with informal discussions in general everyday situations. They are able to understand brief texts on familiar topics, and they are able to write a fluent and understandable text on a topic of personal interest. The students can manage with simple writing tasks in everyday life.
4) The students understand the main parts of standard, spoken Finnish dealing with recurrent themes related to school, work or leisure. They are able to work out the key topics for example in the news. The students can cope with informal discussions in general everyday situations. They are able to understand brief texts on familiar topics with the help of learning aids. They are able to write an understandable and fairly fluent text on a topic of personal interest. The students can manage with simple writing tasks in everyday life.
3) The students understand discussions on familiar topics when standard Finnish and ordinary vocabulary are used. They can take part in conversations on familiar topics of personal importance. The students are able to understand simple texts with the help of a dictionary. The students can write a brief description of a topic related to their own life. They can manage with the most usual writing tasks of everyday life.
2) The students understand conversations on familiar topics when simple, standard Finnish with typical vocabulary is used. They can to some extent participate in the discussion concerning topics of personal importance. The students are able to retrieve information from relatively simple texts with the help of a dictionary. They can compose a record-style description of their own life. The students can manage with the most ordinary writing tasks of everyday life.
1) The students can understand simplified conversation concerning topics of personal importance. They can open and close a brief dialogue. Pronunciation is comprehensible. The students are able to retrieve information from simple texts with the help of a dictionary. They can compose a simple record-style description of their own life, and they can cope with the basic, routine writing tasks of everyday life.