Admission requirements
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Description
develop learners’ ability to use Georgian effectively for the purpose of practical communication
form a solid foundation for the skills required for further study
develop learners’ awareness of the nature of language and language-learning skills
promote learners’ personal development
Course Objectives
At the end of the program students will demonstrate ability in the following areas:
Reading
understand and select from a range of texts in a variety of forms, including public notices, signs, and magazines and newspapers
identify and retrieve facts, details, important points and themes from a range of texts, including extended pieces of writing, e.g. to complete a form
select and organise relevant information from a range of texts including letters, brochures, forms, extended texts and imaginative writing within the experience of young people and reflecting the interests of people from varied cultural backgrounds
Writing
carry out a range of writing tasks in response to a written stimulus, on a range of topics, including completing a form, writing a postcard, a letter, a summary or extended piece of writing in an appropriate, accurate and clear form of Georgian
describe, report and give a personal information
identify, organise, structure and present material in an appropriate format and register for a particular audience or purpose, e.g. a small information for the students
Listening
understand and select from a range of information presented in a variety of forms, e.g. an answerphone message, news, weather, travel, interviews, dialogues and telephone conversations
identify and retrieve facts, details, important points and themes from a range of material, e.g. a formal talk
identify the important points or themes of the material including attitude, relationships between speakers
Speaking
demonstrate competence in a range of speaking activities, e.g. respond to questions on a range of topics such a future plans, current affairs
respond confidently to new, topical ideas
conduct a sustained conversation with a sense of audience and purpose
Literature
- Howard Aronson, Georgian: A reading Grammar, Slavica Publishers Inc., Indiana University, Bloomington, 1991
- Howard Aronson, Georgian: A reading Grammar (with CDs and text), Georgian Edition, Slavica Publishers Inc, Indiana University, Bloomington, 2005
- Dodona Kiziria, Beginner’s Georgian, Hippocrene books Inc, New York, 2012
- Meri Nikolaishvili, Text Book of Georgian Language (with CD), Tbilisi, 2000
- Meri Nikolaishvili, N. Bagration-Davitashvili, Georgian Language (Intensive course), Tbilisi, 2012
- Nino Sharashenidze, Midamo, Tbilisi, 2010
- Nana Shavtvaladze, Biliki, 1, 2, Tbilisi, 2009
- Tavtavi, book for the non-Georgian schools of Georgia, Ministry of Education and Sciences of Georgia, 2006, Tbilisi
- Materials prepared by teacher
- Media sources
Course Outline
1. Languages of Georgia; Kartvelian (South Caucasian) Languages
2. Topic: sound system of Georgian (similarities and differences between Georgian and Indo-European sound systems
3. Topic: Georgian Alphabet: Letters and corresponding sounds
Writing: alphabet
Reading: letters, reading words with specific consonants; key phrases
Listening: Specific Georgian consonants, words, key phrases
Speaking: pronunciation of specific Georgian consonants, key phrases
Home work: rewriting the letters and words
4. Topic: Acquaintances
Writing: alphabet, dictation; personal pronouns; declination of nouns; conjugation of the verb to be in present indefinite tense
Reading: short dialogue; basic vocabulary related with acquaintances, family members, interrogative words
Listening: short text, short dialogue, short introductory conversations
Speaking: pronunciation, key phrases for introduction; using of the personal pronouns, forms of the verb to be in present indefinite tense and basic vocabulary
Home work: rewriting the letters, words and short dialogues
5. Quiz Writing dictation, writing the test, answers the questions.
6. Topic: Studying, education and working
Writing: dictation, different exercises, short dialogues; declination of Nouns, Singular and Plural forms of Noun; conjugation some verbs of movement; basic meaning of proverbs
Reading: short text, short dialogue, basic vocabulary related with the names of professions
Listening: short conversations; words indicated date and time
Speaking: asking questions, making dialogue; using basic vocabulary related with the names of professions, some basic verbs and proverbs
Home work: writing exercises, writing short text with the given words
7. Quiz: Writing the test, answer the questions.
8. Topic: At the doctor’s
Presentation of the homework
Writing: different exercises, short text about the student’s home cities; conjugation of some Passive verbs; conjugation some transitive verbs; declination of Adjective and Nouns (Preposition and postposition pairs), basic vocabulary related with the parts of body, diseases, doctors and chemist’s; conjugation of some transitive verbs in Present Simple and Future Simple; conjugation of verb to have
Reading: short text, short dialogue
Listening: short conversation
Speaking: asking questions, making dialogue; using the appropriate grammatical forms of verbs and nouns.
Home work: writing exercises, writing short text with the given basic vocabulary and grammatical forms of verbs and nouns. related with the parts of body and forms of verbs
9. Topic: shopping
Writing: different exercises, short texts about the topic; vocabulary related with colours and size, clothes, shoes, furniture, markets, cuisine and shopping centres; formation of the qualitative adjectives; function of basic postpositions
Reading: short text, short dialogue, description one day shopping
Listening: short conversation and short dialogue of both women’s and men’s shopping
Speaking: asking and answering questions, making dialogue
Home work: writing exercises, preparing the group presentation on the given topic; using polite forms f some verbs
10. Topic: Visits
Writing: different exercises, short email to friends; short text about host and gest, using polite forms of verbs
Reading: short text, short dialogue; text about Georgian
Listening: short conversation
Speaking: asking questions, making dialogue, discussing the topic
Home work: writing exercises, Quiz: Writing the test, answer the questions.
11. Topic: Traveling
Making the presentation of the homework
Writing: different exercises, short texts about the topic, basic vocabulary related with weather, restaurants, hotels, stations, airports and booking-offices
Reading: short texts, short dialogues
Listening: short conversation and short dialogues about the travelling
Speaking: asking and answering questions, making dialogue
Home work: writing exercises, writing short text with the given words; prepare the short group presentation about the traveling in student’s home country
12. Topic: Tbilisi
Writing: different exercises, short texts about the topic
Reading: short texts, short dialogues about the interesting places of Tbilisi, exhibitions, museums, concerts, theatres and stadiums
Listening: short conversation and short dialogue about Tbilisi; short parts of TV shows and films
Speaking: asking and answering questions, making dialogue
Meeting to guest speaker
Home work: writing exercises, writing short about interesting cities
13. Topic: Georgian traditions
Writing: different exercises, short texts about the topic
Reading: short text from encyclopaedia, short dialogue,
Listening: Georgian song, short descriptive text
Speaking: asking and answering questions, making dialogue, discussing the traditions of the student’s homeland
Home work: writing exercises, writing short text with the given words
14. Quiz Writing the Writing the test, answer the questions.
15. Presentations about Georgia: Nature, political situation, culture
Blackboard
Yes: Blackboard.
Timetable
Mode of instruction
Seminar
Course load
Total: 280 hours (10 EC)
Lectures: 6 x 4 = 24 hours
Examinations: 2 × 2 = 4 hours
Homework: 112 hours
Final paper: 140 hours
Assessment method
2x Quiz Writing the Writing the test, answer the questions (40%)
Homework (10%)
Final paper (50%)
Should the overall mark be unsatisfactory, the paper is to be revised after consultation with the teacher.
Contact information
Co-ordinator of Studies Titia Bouma
E-mail: tinatin.bolkvadze@tsu.ge; tinatin.bolkvadze@hotmail.com
+ 99 599 97 79 36
Remarks
The same course is taught in the BA Russian Studies for 5 EC. MA student write a final paper extra.