Goals Module 1

Pronunciation

• pronounce the sounds of Swedish
• understand the basics of Swedish pronunciation and the principles for pronouncing stressed words in sentences

• individual sounds, long and short vowels and consonants
• about the significance of prosody in Swedish pronunciation: stressed words, syllables and sounds in complete sentences

• spell out your name in Swedish

• the alphabet

Oral production

• greet and say goodbye to a person
• ask how someone is feeling and tell them how you are

• common phrases for greeting and saying goodbye

• common phrases for greeting and saying goodbye

• word order: question-word questions, declaratives, yes/no-questions

• present yourself saying your name, where you live, where you come from, what language you speak and what you are studying.
• give your telephone number and where you were born
• briefly present someone else
• say what you do on an average day

• word order: declaratives
• verb: present, auxiliary verb + infinitive
• personal pronouns: subject form, object form
• numerals: cardinal and ordinal numbers
• day, month and year
• simple text connectors like och, eller and sedan

• describe the place you live

• nouns: singular, definite and indefinite forms – furniture
• prepositions

• use appropriate phrases to call someone or answer the phone

• telephone phrases

Oral interaction

• converse in simple Swedish on personal or very well-known topics, if the other person talks very clearly and slowly, and sometimes repeats or reformulates what was said

• see the different categories above

Written production

• write short simple messages and short simple texts about yourself and others
• fill in personal information in simple questionnaires

• see the different categories above

Listening comprehension

• be able to follow speech that is very slow and clear, and includes long pauses
• be able to understand messages and instructions given slowly and clearly

• see the different categories above

Reading comprehension

• be able to understand simple short texts, one phrase at a time, and recognise names, words and elementary expressions.

• see the different categories above