Practical Belarussian II 3221-S2-0PB12C

Classes are a continuation of Practical Belarusian at the advanced level in a basis of contemporary journalistic texts including colloquialisms, borrowings, jaronisms etc. and analytical texts reffering to modern social-political international problems. The course is to develop skills to communicate freely and correctly (in written and oral form) on complex subjects, including abstractions, improving reading skills, paraphrasing and analyzing texts on contemporary issues (often activating emotions).
During the course students work with journalistic texts, showing directly important problems of the modern world, such as quality of life, safety and domestic violence, abortion, surrogate motherhood, protection of environment and pollution, fossil fuel power stations and nuclear power plants (including crashes), natural disasters and humanitarian aid, civil wars and peacekeeping, arms of the new generation, the importance of international organizations (UN, NATO), art and emotion. Students learn the correct way to analyze the most important contemporary linguistic phenomenon of socio-political. Paraphrase, evaluate, summarize, prioritize the information heard and read. Create their own, linguistically correct statements marked and neutral, deepen the ability to conduct and coordinate discussions on serious and abstractive issues.
They also refine their knowledge of grammatical structures and spelling, in particular, such as uninflective nouns and nouns of general genre, ways of expressing causal relationships, the construction of repeatedly complex sentences, coordinate and subordinate constructions with the meaning of consent, creation of adverbs, inflection of nouns ending in -j, -um, spelling of nouns ending in -ija, compound adjectives spelling and side and epenthetic words usage.

THEMATIC BLOCKS:

BLOCK I
1. The importance of family in human life.
2. Quality of life and safety in the family.
3. Large and multigenerational families.
4. The division of responsibilities in the family.
5. Violence in the family.
6. Abortion.
7. Surrogacy.
8. Uninflected nouns and the nouns of general genre: zabijaka, prajdocha, sonia....
9. Jargon words and taboo lexicon: bomż, trauka, ihołka, miaszoczniki, vandały.
10. Expressing causal relations: ad czaho?, z-za czaho?

BLOCK II
1. Environmental protection.
2. Attempts to limit release greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
3. Fossil fuel power stations and nuclear power plants.
4. Power outages (at Chernobyl, in Japan).
5. Energy from renewable sources.
6. The fight against the elements.
7. Forest fires.
8. Floods - lack of storage reservoirs flood-performing functions.
9. Humanitarian assistance to affected population.
10. Dependent clauses and undependent clasuses.

BLOCK III
1. Boiling points in different regions of the world.
2. Civil and international wars.
3. Peacekeeping missions: Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan ...
4. New generation of weapons: missiles, missile launchers ...
5. Defense systems.
6. The importance of military maneuvers.
7. The role of the UN and NATO.
8. Constructions with the meaning of consent.
9. Formation of adverbs. Adverbs with the prefix pa-: pa-mojmu, pa-czałavieczy ...
10. Ways to transfer other people's speech.

BLOCK IV
1. Literature and art.
2. Museums.
3. Visual Arts.
4. Music.
5. Computer Games (chakierstwa, żorstkasć, nasille).
6. Feelings, sensations, moods.
7. Inflection of nouns ending with -j: muziej, sanatoryj ...
8. nflection of nouns ending with -um: refierendum, ultymatum ...
9. Spelling of nouns ending with -IJA: dyskusija, recenzija, ekskursija...
10. Spelling compound adjectives:litaraturna-muzyczny, hramadska-palityczny...
11. The side and epenethicwords usage: dnym słovam, biezumouna, napeuna, na maju dumku...