Courses Syllabus and Materials for Students
Each student is assessed individually and placed on the adequate level.
Teaching programmes include training in grammatical structures of the target language and following receptive skills: listening, understanding, reading and productive skills such as: speaking, writing, grammar, pronunciation and intonation. There is a homework set after each lesson to help your language learning. All lesson plans are student centred and include standard procedures of modern language teaching: presentation, controlled practice and production.
The information on social, historical, cultural and political issues and conventions of the country is included and taught through different lesson topics.
Several books are used in order to produce a variety of materials for students and accommodate various learning styles. In addition to the selected materials for the course that are provided by a teacher, students are advised on supplementary self-study materials according to their level, interests and needs.
Reviews and reports
Students are provided with regular oral reviews on their progress and achievement during the training programme. A student will get a certificate on a completion of 30 lessons.
Themes and Topics
- Introducing people
- Family
- Socialising
- Interests
- Sport and Recreation
- Leisure
- Travel
- Banking
- Health
- Hotels
- Restaurants
- Markets
- Shopping
- Fashion
- Renting accommodation
- Asking for and giving directions
- Weather
- Everyday life
- At dentist’s
- At hairdresser’s
- At the bank
- At the post office
- Telephone Conversation
- Business meetings
- Business correspondence
- Negotiating
- Making agreements
- Signing contracts
- Politics
- Going out
- Leisure
- History
- Literature
- Various topics depending on student’s level and needs
Content of Grammar for Serbian Language
Alphabets (Latin and Cyrillic alphabets; Consonants and Vowels)
Pronunciation (Write as you speak, read as it is written a phonetic rule for reading and writing)
Word Stress (four accents)
Dialects
Cases (Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative, Instrumental, Locative)
Nouns (Groups-4, Types: Personal, General, Collective, Material, Abstract; Gender, Number, Case)
Pronouns (Types: Personal, Possessive, Relative, Interrogative, Reflexive, Adverbial, Demonstrative, Non-defined, Negative, General; Form: Definite and Indefinite; Gender, Number, Case; Function: attributive and predicative)
Adjectives (Types: Descriptive, Possessive, Adjectives of Time, Adjectives of Place and Purpose, Material Adjectives; Form: Indefinite and Definite; Gender, Number, Case,)
Numerals (Types: Ordinal, Cardinal, Collective; Distributive, Multiplicative, Fractional; Gender, Number, Case)
Verbs (Defective Verbs; Tenses: Infinitives, Present, Perfect, Aorist, Imperfect, Pluperfect, Future I, Future II; Use of Historical Present, Conjugations, Person, Gender, Number; Aspects: perfective and imperfective; Participles: Declinable Active Participle of Simultaneous Action, Declinable Active Participle of Past Action, Declinable Passive Past Participle, Indeclinable Active Past Participle; Moods: Imperative, Potential; Passive voice)
Adverbs (Function, Types: Adverbs of Manner, Place and Time Formation, Comparative Form)
Prepositions (Time, Place, Cause, Comparison, Purpose).
Exclamations
Conjunctions
Particles
Congruence of noun, adjective and verb
Syntax and Word Order
Independent and Dependent Clauses and Types of Sentences
Morphological and Phonetic Alternations (Equation of consonants by being voiced or voiceless, Equation of consonants by place of formation, Palatalization, Sibilarizacija, Jotovanje, Mobile A, Change L into O, Simplifying groups of consonants)
Homonyms, Synonyms, Synonymy of Cases
Diminutive, Augmentative
Word Formation
Reading, translating and understanding practice
Listening and understanding practice
Speaking and conversation practice
Writing skills (letters, comments, interviews, essays, reports, articles, discussions)
Variants
Spoken and Written Language
Humour and Jokes
Idioms and Expressions
Twisters
Puzzles
Proverbs
Literature and Culture