Slovakian Business

2021

Students

Business & Communication

Autonomous learning
Classroom Context

English

English

B1

Activity/task
Audio
Reference resources (online Dictionaries/ grammar guides/phrasebooks)
Video

Vocabulary
Grammar

Speaking
Writing
Reading

The course is according to EU-Standards for languages: B1, B2 and C1 .
Business series is a special advanced course for business. You get everything you need to communicate fluently in a foreign language in business or work-related situations.
Language Course with 100 Lessons
• Spoken dialogue interaction with the computer
• Learn words by speaking or writing them
• Pronunciation training with voice recognition
• Intuitive grammar training
• Vocabulary Memory Games
• Words and sentences linked to reference tools
• Topics covering everyday life, travel and business
Numerous written and oral assignments and online exercises for learning and teaching Slovakian as a foreign language can be found on this website. The program costs 80 CHF, but we can get a trial version for free. But you have to register beforehand.

The material would either be tested in classroom context or as a take-home project. Students would be instructed to choose some of the activities, do the exercises and repeat the expressions of basic Slovenian. Pronouncing words and expressions out can help acquiring the language easily.
Learners would start by memorizing words, phrases and practical expressions that can be used in everyday life. The prosody of the language could be studied at the first time, and learners can not only listen and repeat the expressions, but can write them out in their vocabulary with the meaning in their own mother tongue.
With the help of a dictionary or the class teacher they can also write out the key words of the expressions or discuss how the Slovakian language works, i.e. how the learnt phrases are constructed. Doing this not only their vocabulary can improve but they can acquire some basic grammar as well. Learning basic expressions is the key to quick success because leaners can easily start communicating with each other and can be motivated to further improve their vocabulary in order to be able to communicate in a more subtle way. As a follow-up exercise they could speak with each other and share their knowledge, and also add some more vocabulary.

Introductory activity / warmup:
Lead-in activity/warmer: Eliciting information on learners’ knowledge of Slovakian Business vocabulary. They may come up with some words or expressions, or some international vocabulary that would motivate the group members to use Slovakian.
Step 1: Pre-watching activity. Tell the students that they are going to do some activities that teach Slovakian language. The activities allow students to recognize and practice basic conversational terms. Students do the preparation task first and are instructed to do some of the activities.
Tell the students that they are going to watch a video on the topic they have just been discussing. The video will allow students to recognize and practice technical vocabulary. Students do the preparation task first and are instructed to collect and write the Business vocabulary from the video.
Step 2: Doing the activities: reading, listening and repeating some basic words and expressions. Students get knowledge about the most useful phrases of elementary communication.
Step 3: Students give feedback on their success. They are instructed to repeat the terms loudly, then they can write them in their vocabulary, and by analysing the terms they may learn some new words and basic grammar.
Step 4: Learners can work in pairs. They can ask and answer the questions they have learnt and can react to the phrases. After collecting some more vocabulary they would be able to communicate meaningfully.