Semestral course for beginners

A1.1 - the syllabus for Polish as a foreign language

Communication and vocabulary

Introducing Yourself and Making Connections, Basic Information About Yourself, Your Family, and Your Work, Nationality, Country of Origin, and Languages, Numbers, Age, Address, Phone Number, email, days of the week, months, dates, and times, daily routine and basic activities, family and relationships, home, apartment, and immediate surroundings, city, places, and spatial orientation, shopping, prices, and basic services, food, drinks, restaurants, and cafes, leisure time and interests, weather and seasons, basic communication situations in everyday life.

Grammar

• the alphabet, pronunciation and the rules of reading; grammatical gender: masculine, feminine and neuter
• singular and plural
• the nominative
• the accusative
• the genitive
• basic use of the remaining cases in common constructions
• agreement between noun, adjective and pronoun
• personal, possessive and demonstrative pronouns
• numerals and their basic use
• prepositions and basic prepositional constructions
• regular verbs and the irregular verbs you meet most often
• the verbs być, mieć, móc, musieć, chcieć
• the present tense - conjugation and use
• the past tense - basic forms and use
• the future tense - basic constructions, e.g. będę + infinitive
• questions and negation
• basic sentence constructions and word order

Language skills

Understanding simple statements and announcementsholding short conversations in everyday situationsasking questions and giving basic informationreading short, simple textsfilling in simple formswriting short messages and basic information about yourselftalking about the present, the past and simple plans for the future

What the course leads to:

By the end of A1.1 a student can get by in the simplest everyday situations, introduce themselves and other people, pass on basic information, talk about their day, and say what they have done and what they intend to do.