INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES
POLISH LEVEL 1
COURSE OUTLINE
Prior knowledge and skills:
These courses are for learners with no knowledge or minimal knowledge of the
language.
Course Aim:
At the end of the course you will be able to perform basic tasks such as exchanging
greetings, asking simple questions and writing basic sentences.
Course Details:
Set textbook: Mazur, B. W. Latest Edition. Colloquial Polish. Routledge.
Recommended:
Accompanying Tape or CD
Langenscheidt s Pocket Dictionary  Polish. English-Polish/Polish-English
- Dictionaries are a very useful part of language learning. The dictionary listed
above is stocked by the bookstores on the IML Textbook List, but there are other
suitable dictionaries available.
- Each topic includes relevant social and cultural information.
- Additional tasks and resources will be provided in class.
- The IML library located in Room 213 Joyce Ackroyd Building also has books,
magazines, kits, tapes and videos for loan to IML students.
Assessment:
Assessment is optional. An exam to assess reading, writing, listening and speaking
competencies is held at the end of the course and a statement of attainment is then
issued. A certificate of attendance is available upon request for students not
undertaking assessment who have attended at least 75% of the course.
Revision:
Language is learned best with maximum contact and usage. Ten minutes of revision
and consolidation daily is more effective than a two-hour block. Home exercises will
be designed for revision and consolidation of each course segment.
Contacts:
IML staff can be contacted through the IML office:
Level 2, Joyce Ackroyd Building
Ph. 3365 6490 or Fax [phone]
Email [e-mail]
Polish Level 1, 9/12/2005
Course Content:
TOPIC FEATURES GRAMMAR ASPECTS
Dzień dobry.
" The letters and sounds of Polish " Present tense of verb  to be
Nazywam się....
" Greetings and simple courtesies " Formal and familiar forms of
(Hello. My name is...)
address
" Simple questions and answers
" Nouns and gender
Czy jest tu gdzieś
" Asking for and giving directions " Asking  which one? 
blisko hotel? (Is there
 what s& like?
" How to say  it
a hotel?)
" Adjectives
" How to say  my, your& 
" Singular
" Saying  this one   that one
" The case system in Polish
Jak spędzam wolny
" Leisure " Verbs with present tense endings -
czas (How I spend my
am, -asz
" Interests
free time)
" The verb  to have
" Ordering a drink or a snack
" The accusative case
Życzymy miłego
" Polite requests " The genitive case and its uses
pobytu (We wish you
" Expressions of quantity " Verbs with present tense endings -
a pleasant stay)
ę, -isz / -ysz
" Saying  there is and  there isn t
Mówienie w obcym
" Learning, speaking and " Adverbs
jęzjku (Speaking a
understanding language
" Verbs of  knowing
foreign language)
" Saying what you can do / have to
" Verbs ending in -(i)eć
do
" Saying  already and  not yet
Ideziemy do kina
" Saying what you like, dislike, " Verbs of motion  going places
(We re going to the
want or prefer
" Clauses with że  that
cinema)
" Making and responding to
" Verbs with present tense endings -
invitations
ę, -esz
" The days of the week
Muszę kupić parę
" Numbers 1  100 " The plural forms of nouns and
rzeczy (I must buy one
adjectives
" Shopping at kiosks
or two things)
" Money and prices
" Countries, nationalities and jobs
people do
W mieście (In town)
" How to say where  the locative " Ordinal numbers
case
" Telling the time
" Months and seasons
Kolacja w domu
" Shopping for food " O co chodzi?  What s the
(Dinner at home)
problem? / What is it?
" Saying  supposed / expected to
&  and  here you have&   two " Some imperatives
other uses of mieć
" The genitive plural of nouns and
" More about numbers and adjectives
quantities
" Talking about what you were
doing and used to do
Polish Level 1, 9/12/2005