CULP: Swahili Intermediate 1

Prerequisites£

The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.

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• University staff and students
• Further details regarding Language Centre eligibility criteria are available

CEF A2 in Swahili

Number of sessions: 15

The course introduces and familiarises students to the following functions and notions:

• Introducing yourself, family, and introducing others (extended)
• Talking about future plans and dreams
• Daily life including routine activities, hobbies, food, drinks, likes and dislikes
• Shopping: Clothes and foodstuff – including the concept of bargaining
• Ordering meals and drinks and Swahili recipes
• Travel (extended)
• Talking about Swahili East Africa: cities, hotels, game parks, beaches etc.
• Talking about major cities worldwide – weather, population, cost of living and safety
• Renting accommodation
• Giving advice, opinions and expressing feelings
• Story telling in Swahili culture
• Understanding Swahili Culture - Wedding customs, Beliefs and superstitions, Kanga, Music, Swahili festivities, eating etiquette etc

By the end of this course students will be able to:

Listening and Speaking

• Take part in routine conversation on predictable topics
• Express views, ideas, opinions and feeling on a range of familiar concrete and abstract socio-cultural issues
• Understand the salient details of conversations, familiar TV and radio broadcasts and simple phone messages

Reading

• Understand routine information and articles e.g. menu, letters, forms, adverts, instructions, brochures and the salient points of non-routine information

Writing

• Write short messages, notices, instructions, letters, and short and simple narrative stories on familiar topics
• Take brief notes during meetings and from given sources and make summaries

• To develop the learner’s knowledge of Swahili grammar and build up vocabulary
• To equip the learner with basic understanding of familiar matters including at home, work, school and other social settings in Swahili
• To enable the learner to respond to the most situations that are likely to arise in conversation and interaction with standard Swahili speakers
• To familiarise the learner with knowledge of cultural background of Swahili people in Swahili East Africa and the areas where Swahili is now spoken
• To encourage the learner to use Swahili with confidence and creativity

• Fifteen taught sessions of two hours plus online learning

• CULP: Swahili Basic 1
• CULP: Swahili Basic 2