Finnish for International Tourism Students 1 (5cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Objective

Multicultural Tourism and Hospitality
Multidimensional Hospitality (theme)
The student can interact in simple everyday situations in Finnish provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help. He/she can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases.
Must know

- Finnish pronunciation

- introduce oneself and others

- ask and answer simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics

- understand familiar words and very basic phrases when people speak slowly and clearly

- understand familiar names, words and very simple sentences in written

- react to basic greeting and leave-taking expressions

- grammar: personal pronouns and verb conjugation in present tense, question words, nominative and partitive cases, to have/to have not

Should know

- interact in simple everyday situations: asking and giving simple advice

- write short, simple texts and messages

- fill in simple forms with personal details

- grammar: genitive, basics of local cases, kpt-change in verbs and nouns

Nice to know

- Finnish communication style & some cultural features

Content

Tieto puuttuu

Materials

Study book: Gehring, S. & Heinzmann, S. 2010. Suomen mestari 1. Finn Lectura.
Videos, sound files and other online material, handouts, pictures, everyday objects

Teaching methods

- contact lessons: lectures, communicative exercises
- independent studying
- written and spoken assignments
- exam incl. oral interview
The list of various learning tasks and pedagogical methods of the study unit and the whole semester is given as a separate table.
Preliminary plan:
This is a draft and will be updated according to the final schedule and the progress during the course.
week 37: Hauska tutustua! Introducing, pronounciation
week 38: Hei ja tervetuloa! greetings, personal pronouns
week 39: numbers, personal info with numbers, prices
week 39: Minkämaalainen sinä olet? nationalities, countries, languages; verbs in affirmative, negative and question forms
week 40: question words, questions; verbs in affirmative, negative and question forms
week 40: Sähköposti Mikolle. adjectives, weather
Voitko auttaa minua? asking for help; kpt-change
week 41: Minä. telling about yourself&family; partitive
week 41: Minulla on... / Minulla ei ole... to have, partitive
week 41: Minun päivä. daily activities, verbs and verbtypes, times of the day, the clock
week 42: self-study week, studying and practicing Finnish independently
week 43: telling about your activities: verbs, time expressions
week 43: Missä? local cases
week 44: Explaining the way
week 44: Ruoka ja juoma. Eating and drinking, in the restaurant
week 45/46: test for spoken skills, written exam
week 46/47: feedback, useful phrases for field work

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Please note that there might be more specific assessment criteria for learning assignments which will be given at the beginning of the study unit.

Fail (0)
The student does not complete the assignments according to instructions or does not attend the learning situations at all. He/she does not pass the assignments and/or the exam as required.

Poor (1)
The student can introduce him-/herself and answer questions about personal details in Finnish with strong assistance. The student is able to interact in the simplest everyday situations with strong assistance in Finnish.

Satisfactory (2)
The student can introduce him-/herself and answer questions about personal details in Finnish with assistance. The student is able to interact in simple everyday situations with assistance in Finnish.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good (3)
The student can introduce him-/herself as well as ask and answer questions about personal details in Finnish. The student is able to interact in simple everyday situations with some assistance in Finnish.

Very good (4)
The student can introduce him-/herself as well as ask and answer questions about personal details in Finnish. The student is able to interact in simple everyday situations in Finnish.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent (5)
The student is able to introduce him-/herself as well as ask and answer questions about personal details fluently in Finnish. The student is able interact in simple everyday situations fluently in Finnish.

Qualifications

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