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  • Welcome to the course Finnish intensive web course!

    Photo: Elina Das Bhowmik

    Photo: Elina Das Bhowmik


    Course time: 10.1.-4.3.2022

    No lessons on Monday 21.2. and Wednesday 23.2.

    Lessons: Mondays and Wednesdays at 16.30-18.30

    Location: Online course, you will find the link to Zoom below

    Book: Oma suomi 1 (Tapaninen & Kuparinen), chapters 1-5

    Written exam: online exam on Friday 4.3.2022

    Re exam: online exam on Friday 8.4.2022

    Oral exam: Arranged together with the teacher 

    Teacher: Nelli Karkkunen (nelli.karkkunen@aalto.fi)



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  • Suomi 1A


  • Characteristics of the Finnish language

    The alphabets

    How to introduce yourself

    Greetings 


    Homework / Kotitehtävät:

    • Practice pronunciation in MyCourses (5 exercises)
    • Check the clip “How to trill your r’s” in MyCourses
    • Practice greetings (tervehdykset) with Quizlet and do the quiz in MyCourses (2 exercises)
    • Study numbers (Oma suomi 1, page 8) and check the clips in MyCourses marked as pre task (2 clips)
    • Translate chapter 1: “Tervetuloa!” (page 6)


  • Chapter 1: Tervetuloa / Welcome

    Exercise 1 (page 7)

    Countries, nationalities and languages

    Numbers 

    Personal pronouns and verb conjugation


    Kotitehtävät / homework:

    • Excercise 5 (page 11)  
    • Exercise 7 (page 14): form sentences
    • Excercises 15 and 16 (page 16): listen and fill in the gaps
    • If you have time: Number exercise in MyCourses
    • Exercise 17 (page 17): answer the questions (”hänen” means his)
    • If you have time: Exercise 20 (page 18): fill in your own info
    • Exercises marked as homework in MyCourses under lesson 2 (verbs olla, puhua and asua and 2 number quizzes)
    • Translate chapter 2 (pages 20-21)
    • Study family members: See the link in MyCourses “Tässä on minun perhe”
    • Watch the clip about making questions in MyCourses



  • Substitute teacher Maria Lind today

    Vowel harmony

    Negative verb conjugation 

    Chapter 2:  Susans neighbours / Kappale 2: Susanin naapurit 

    Family words  

    Question words


    Kotitehtävät / Homework:

    • Exercises 8 and 9 (page 14)
    • Questions about the text: exercise 1 (page 22)
    • Question words: Exercise 2 (page 22)
    • Family:
        • read the text on page 23 and translate.
        • then do the exercise 4 (page 24): Write the names and family relations in the boxes
        • family quizlet in MyCourses
        • Watch the clip about genitive case in MyCourses


  • Substitute teacher Taija Votkin today

    Ko/kö question 

    Genitive case 


    Kotitehtävät / Homework:

    • Family: Exercise 5 and 6 (page 25)
    • Ko/kö question:
       • exercises 9 and 10 (page 28)
    •Genitive:
       • excercises 13, 14, 15 (page 30)
    •Written assignment ”Minä ja minun perhe” (Me and my family), 100 words. Return latest on Wednesday 26.1. in a word document in my e-mail. Name the file by your name!
    •Pre tasks for lesson 5: ”Kahvilassa” video


  • In Oscars cafe / Oscarin kahvilassa
    Spoken language / Puhekieli

    Kotitehtävät / Homework: 
    • Exercise 18 (page 32: write the same phrase in standard language)
    • Exercise 19 (page 32): Answer the questions (exercise 18) a-e and make questions to fit the answers f-j in spoken language.
    • Write 15 important words of chapter 2 (page 35)
    • Translate chapter 3
    • Check the video in MyCourses about telling the time (kello)
    • Check the videos of verb type 2 and 3 in MyCourses
    • Conjugate verbs ”imuroida” and ”kävellä” in all persons and write both positive and negative forms


  • Chapter 3: On Wednesday in summer / Keskiviikkona kesällä 

    Verb types 2 and 3

    Time


    Kotitehtävät / homework:

    • Exercises 1 and 2 (pages 38-39)
    • Time: exercise 8 (page 49) and 9 (page 50)
    • 2 exercises about weekdays in MyCourses
    • Verbtypes : exercises 4 and 5 (page 45)
    • Check the videos about verb types 4 and 5 in MyCourses
    • If you have time: Listen to the song in MyCourses (Vieno Kekkonen: Ei koskaan sunnuntaisin) and fill the gaps in a separate exercise in MyCourses


  • Verb types 4 and 5

    Plural t form


    Homework / Kotitehtävät:
    • Check the video ”Conjugation of verb haluta” in MyCourses and do the exercise ”Conjugate the verb haluta”
    • Exercise ”verb types: 2 exercises” in MyCourses
    • Exercise 6 (page 46)
    • Exercise 7 (page 47)
    • Check the interactive video in MyCourses called ”MyDay”
    • If you have time: Conjugate the verbs ”mennä” and ”tulla” in MyCourses


  • Small messages / Pienet viestit
    Signs / Opasteet ja kyltit
    Verbit


    Homework / Kotitehtävät:

    • Exercise 3 (pages 40-41)
    • Exercise 15 (page 52): Listen and write what you hear.
    • Study the words of chapter 3 + accomplish the exercises you haven’t done
    • Translate chapter 4
    • Pre tasks in MyCourses: Ruoka ja juoma (food and beverage)


  • Kappale 4: Ruokakaupassa / In grocery store

    Ruoka / Food


    Kotitehtävät / homework:

    • Exercises 1 and 4 (pages 58-59)
    • Exercise 16 (page 70): go in a grocery stores web pages https://www.k-ruoka.fi/kauppa/tuotehaku and put 3 products in each box
    • Check 2 videos about partitive case: ”numbers + partitive” and ”partitive in substance words” in MyCourses


  • Partitive case / Partitiivi

  • Minulla on (I have) construction 
    Shopping / ostaminen

    Numbers: spoken language / puhekielen numerot 


    Kotitehtävät / homework:
    • Exercise 8 (page 80)
    • Exercise 10 and 11 (page 81)
    • Translate chapter 5
    • Practice places (exercise in MyCourses)
    • Practice colours with Quizlet (MyCourses)
    • Check consonant gradation (kpt change) video in MyCourses

  • Kappale 5: Tässä kaupungissa / In this city
    Paikat / places: -ssa or -lla (in or on)
    Kpt change

    Kotitehtävät / homework:

    • Exercise 1 (page 74)
    • Exercise 13 (page 85)
    • Exercise 15 (page 86)
    • Exercise 16 (page 87)
    • Exercise 23 (page 89): Correct the sentences by changing the bolded word in the text. Choose a right word from the box.
    • Practice furniture from page 76
    • Practice living/asuminen vocabulary in Mycourses (Quizlet)
    • Practice ”adjectives” with flash cards in MyCourses

  • Asuminen / living
    Tehtävä 4 (sivu 77)
    Tehtävät 18 (sivu 87), 26 ja 27 (91)
    Adjektiivit / adjectives



    Kotitehtävät: 

    • Exercises 3 and 5 (on pages 76-79)
    • Listening exercise 7 (page 79): listen to a phone call and answer the questions. Click ”kpl 5 Tassa kaupungissa” in audio!
    • Exercise  25 (page 90): Listen to an advertisement about a furniture shop. Compare it to to the ad on page 90. Which things are incorrect?

  • Rest of chapter 5

    Recap / Kertaus


    Kotitehtävät:
    • Exercise 2 (page 75): Think, what things you remember in different colours. You can think about food also.
    • Exercise 19 (page 88): Read the adds and answer the questions
    • Do ”Test your knowledge / Harjoitustesti Suomi 1” in MyCourses. Notice, that Nelli will not correct it, it’s only for practice.