Study Guide

Objectives

After successful completion of the course students will be able to pronounce Finnish already well. They have courage enough to use their Finnish out of a classroom, too, to get their information through. They know that more language training and studying is essential to make it possible to get a job in Finland. They can tell about and describe their environment. They are able to communicate some simple environmental engineering matters, e.g. circulation or laboratory work.

Content

Basics of the Finnish language: object cases, past tenses, passive voice, the most usual cases governed by a verb, structural exercises, vocabulary exercises, conversational and drama exercises, listening comprehension exercises, reading comprehension exercises, written exercises.

Prerequisites

Level A2 (CEFR) Finnish skills or
Finnish for Foreigners 1 and 2

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Students have been able to complete all the assignments acceptably. They can tell something about achieved course contents, but their expression stays limited and/or insufficient and includes a lot of structural mistakes. Both spoken and written language is partly hard to understand. It is difficult for them to take part to a simple discussion. Also their incomplete pronunciation may cause difficulties to understand their speech.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

Students have an active attitude towards studying Finnish language showing that by completing course tasks according to the schedule. They can cope in most achieved oral course exercises quite well. Students are able to write short texts about their environment and matters considering their becoming profession. Their pronunciation is quite good.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students have a positive and active attitude towards learning language. They can pronounce Finnish distinctively and are able to use suitable and varied expressions in achieved course exercises using grammar mostly correct way. Students can participate in a conversation asking and responding to questions about topics studied in the course. They can write simple descriptions or summaries and recombine words and phrases into new sentences.

Further information

The course is for students whose mother language is not Finnish and who have completed Finnish for Foreigners 1 and 2. If you need a credit transfer for competence for Finnish for Foreigners 1-3 -courses, please read further information on alternative ways of completing the course in the course's implementation plan and contact the teacher in charge.