Scope/semester hours per week

Prerequisites

Learning objectives

• Listening

With the help of everyday, slowly spoken short dialogues, students practise understanding basic information, e.g. weather forecasts, television news, topics of conversation:

• weather forecasts, television news, topics of conversation
• Telephone messages relating to the student's daily life

• Reading

Students will be able to read and understand simple texts and dialogues, e.g.

• Texts about daily life, the stay of an exchange student in Sweden and about fashion
• Bus and train timetables
• flat adverts

• Oral interaction

Oral interaction in everyday situations is practised so that students can, for example

• talk about the weather, leisure time, accommodation, places to study in Sweden etc.
• be able to make telephone calls and ask for a person, e.g. a fellow student or seminar leader, leave a message
• be able to obtain information about travelling conditions, bus and train departure times and shopping facilities

• Oral production

Students will be able to

• wish me a happy birthday
• describe my subjects of study
• describe Sweden and their country of origin in simple words

• writing

The students should be able to

• write a simple e-mail or SMS

• write simple messages, e.g. to

  a flatmate or

  fellow students,

  create shopping lists,

  note down phone calls, etc.

Proof of performance through

• Written exam of approx. 85 min
• Oral examination lasting approx. 10 min.
• Additional services if necessary

ECTS points

• Regular attendance, passing the written exam and the oral exam: 3 ECTS credits
• In some degree programmes, it is possible to acquire an additional ECTS point through additional work