NO-162 Norwegian for International Students, Intermediate level 2 (Autumn 2020)

Upon completion of the course the students shall have the ability to understand oral and written presentations of the topics that have been discussed during the course. This includes being able to:

• Talk about their own home, family and celebrations, their personal work experience and education, and about their plans for the future
• Describe location, explain diagrams, name measures, weight and length
• Talk in general about personal economy, various kinds of living arrangements, relationship status
• Express positive and negative feelings, insecurity, wishes, conditions
• Argue for and against statements

The students shall also:

• Be able to write coherent texts about the topics that have been discussed in the course
• Have a relatively good grip on Norwegian spelling and on basic Norwegian morphology and syntax
• Have a fairly extensive vocabulary

Be able to express themselves in a simple, understandable and fairly idiomatic way

This course is for exchange students and other international students on level A2 according to the Common European Framework for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (2011). The students will further develop their grammatical knowledge and skills. Some central topics are the use of adjectives in the definite form, compounds, relative clauses, various types of subordinate clauses and word order in subordinate clauses. There will be exercises in language variation, idioms and logical relations, and some exercises in abstract vocabulary.

Both oral and written activities will be emphasised and the work will include a variety of non-fictional texts. The students will also begin to read authentic texts with an approximately normal degree of difficulty. The vocabulary will be from texts related to housing conditions, family patterns, personal economy, higher education, the labour market, job seeking and CV.