CULP: Swahili Intermediate 1 Prerequisites£
Description
The Programme offers general language tuition with a focus on communicative competence.
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Target audience
- University staff and students
- Further details regarding Language Centre eligibility criteria are available
Prerequisites
CEF A2 in Swahili
Topics covered
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
Objectives
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
Aims
- 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
Format
Duration
- Fifteen taught sessions of two hours plus online learning
Frequency
Related courses
Theme
CULP: Cambridge University Language Programmes
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