Practical Belarussian II 3221-S1-0PB12C

Classes are a continuation of Practical Belarusian at primary level and serve deepening students' language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening). During the course it is being developed primarily knowledge of Belarusian spelling rules, with particular emphasis on the spelling of different combinations of consonant and vowel (mostly in borrowed lexis), including doubling and lenghtening consonants, spelling words written as one word, words separated and written with a hypen, writing compoud words and rules concerning writing with capital or lower-case letters and spelling abbreviations. Gained knowledge of orthography is still practiced in the form of dictations and numerous independent works including preparation of statements written in Belarusian.
The ability to select the correct use of grammatical forms is also deepened. Particular attention is devoted to inflection of nouns of second and third declination, uninflective nouns, Pluralia and Singularia Tantum, inflective of ordinal numerals and fractions and inflection of selected verbs. The emphasis is also on the use of certain verbs in combination with other parts of speech (for example, prepositional phrases with the verb to live, deal with what?, rest where?, go where? etc., and using other language constructs (such as pomnik kamu?, uskłasci kwietki da pomnika). Skills related to the proper use of certain linguistic forms are practiced to a lesser extent, by doing grammar exercises, and more by constructing own statements during which the note is returned to the correct accentuation of individual words. Students also learn the basic rules for construction exclamation and interrogative clauses, which they use in discussions conducted in groups.
Grammatical material is introduced based on a slightly longer spoken and written texts (including short stories, newspaper articles, lyrics, extended speech, etc.) related to daily life. Analysis of these texts is also deepening the knowledge of Belarusian language lexical issues such as house and apartment (names of rooms and furniture), work day (including determination of the date and time - exact and approximate), meals (culinary traditions), leisure, entertainment - a description of various forms of leisure (in the woods, over water, in town - cinema, theater, disco), descriptions of the main cities of Belarus and European capitals, shops, restaurants, hotels, rural life, historical monuments, the education system in Poland and in Belarus, the Belarusian nature (including the beliefs associated with it) and holidays.
During classes there are also presented in more detail manner the ways of constructing statements about the place of residence (including addressing letters and ways of creating inhabitants names), the expression of spatial relations, the time constructions.
Acquired knowledge students practice primarily through independent preparation of written and oral statements (description of the family, description of the apartment, self-presentations of different cities, etc.) during class discussions conducted in Belarusian language and listening comprehension exercises, including, for example, summarizing heard stories or songs .

THEMATIC BLOCKS:

BLOCK I
1. House and flat. Furniture.
2. Inglection of II declination nouns.
3. Verbs determining the position of things in space.
4. Determination of residence: place and address.
5. Addressing letters - differences between Polish and Belarusian address forms.
6. Lengthened and doubled consonants.
7. Names of the population depending on where you live.
8. Prepositional phrases with the verb to live.
9. The numbering of floors - the differences between Poland and Belarus,
10. Ordinal numbers - spelling and inflection.

BLOCK II
1. Working day.
2. Determination of date and time - exact and approximate.
3. Synonymy of time structures.
4. Verbs of motion.
5. Meals - food, drinks.
6. Polish and Belarusian culinary traditions.
7. Native and borrowed vocabulary.
8. Genre of nouns. The discrepancies between Polish and Belarusian. Methods for determining the genre of uninflective nouns.
9. Spelling and pronunciation of different combinations of consonants.
10. Unpredictable and predictable stress in Belarusian language.

BLOCK III
1. Leisure and entertainment - a description of various forms of leisure (in the woods, over water, in town - cinema, theater, disco).
2. Description of the main cities of Belarus.
3. Historical monuments - constructions pomnik kamu?, uskłasci kwietki da pomnika.
4. Shops. Restaurants. Hotels.
5. Life in the countryside.
6. Inflective of III declination nouns.
7. Verb constructions: doing what?, rest where?, go where?
8. Synonymy of spatial structures.
9. Fractional Numerals - spelling and inflection.
10. Spelling words - written as one word, words separated and written with a hypen.

BLOCK IV
1. Science, education - types of schools.
2. The education system in Poland and Belarus.
3. Abbreviations - types and methods of their creation.
4. Compounds of expression with the verb to learn - prepositional and non-prepositional.
5. Names of countries.
6. Ways of naming the inhabitants of different countries.
7. Capitals of various countries.
8. Spelling of combinations of vowels in borrowed words.
9. Alternations of consonants.
10. Confusing similarity of Polish-Belarusian language.

BLOCK V
1. Belarusian Nature - plants, flowers, trees and shrubs.
2. Descriptions of landscapes.
3. The world of animals.
4. Animisation of nature.
5. Belarusian holidays.
6. Pluralia and Singularia Tantum.
7. Inflection of selected verbs.
8. Compound words - spelling and creation.
9. Spelling rules of writing with capital or lower-case letters.
10. Construction of interrogative and exclamation sentences.