Belarusian language II 3221-S1-FBA-NJB12

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:

YOUR DAY
Dates and times.
Lexicon related to daily activities.
Scheduling tasks for the week, the calendar.
Weather.
The names of the days of the week and months in the locative.
Inflection of cardinal and ordinal numbers.
Verbs of I and II conjugation (revision).
Going to the cinema to see a movie - prepositions + cases.
Adverbs - formation and grading.
Holidays in Belarus.

FLATS
Apartment, house and furniture.
One’s place of residence: city, address.
Prepositions.
Locative.
Viewfinder.
Placement of objects in space (on, under, next to, above, etc.).
Floor numbering.
Writing advertisements.
Food
In the grocery store - shopping vocabulary.
Groceries.
Goods packaging.
Measures and weights.
In a restaurant - lexis.
Reflexive pronouns.
Genitive - revision.
Verbs “to eat” and “to drink”.
Verbs “to run” and “to give”.
Aspects of the verb.
Belarusian delicacies.
Culinary traditions in Poland and Belarus.
Ordering dishes in a restaurant - dialogues.
Creation of recipes.
FUTURE AND PAST
Education.
Winter and summer holidays - memories.
Planning a trip and holiday.
Nature - lexis.
Plans for the future.
Correspondence - lexis.
The past tense.
Future tense.
The verb to learn.
Consonants long and doubled.
The Vocative.
Preparation of tourist trips and adverts.
Description of Belarusian cities.
Addressing letters.
Writing letters.

Student workload:

120 hours – in class, 4 ECTS;
30 hours - preparing for class assignments, 1 ECTS;
30 hours - preparing for the exam, 1 ECTS.

Total: 6 ECTS.