Everyday Finnish - Language functions and central structures
Language functions
Social interaction
- Recognising the features of Finnish communication culture and etiquette
- Handling informal daily situations and running errands in Finnish
- Understanding spoken Finnish in familiar situations
Telling and describing
- Telling about past and future events and experiences
- Discussing and sharing opinions on concrete topics using basic phrases
- Sharing concrete information
- Writing short, informal messages
Understandingand searching for information in Finnish
- Understanding predictable information and creating an overall idea of texts on concrete topics
- Using Finnish sources in different media when searching for information on a concrete topic
- Understanding a familiar theme and picking up some easily recognisable details from clear speech in standard Finnish
Developing as a language learner
- Recognising your own language proficiency profile and setting goals
- Learning and analysing language in a Finnish-speaking environment and as part of a learner group
- Developing literacy and information searching skills
- Practising the use of different tools that support learning
Central structures
Learning to use for example:
- past and future events: present tense of verbs (also consonant gradation) and simple past more systematically
- expressing location with case endings and postpositions
- using verbs of feelings and information
- plural: basic types of plural partitive
- comparison: comparative and superlative
- clause types, e.g. joka -clauses
- more systematic use of noun types, word derivation
- expressing location: postpositions
- basic object types
- spoken language; more systematic analysis of the features
Recognising and understanding in context:
- the perfect tense
- the conditional modus
- features of newspaper language: simple participles as adjectives
