Objective
The student gets to know the language by listening, reading and doing projects. The text is simple, related to everyday life.
Topics:
Name, address, alphabet, numbers, age, occupation, today, yesterday etc. Names of days and months. Food. Feelings. The body. To wash (oneself / laundry), bath, shower.
Numbers, 1, 2, 3, ... . Telling time, personal identification numbers and telephone numbers.
Time: Year - month - week - day. Know the names of the months and days. Now - later - earlier - before - today - yesterday - tomorrow - after week, month, year.
Location: Here - there - inside - outside - up - down - next - right - left - behind - before - above - below - at home - at work - in school.
Colours: yellow - red - green - blue - black - white and more. People (Persons): Man, woman - a teenager, boy, girl, baby, infant. Wife - husband, boyfriend - girlfriend. Mom - Dad. Grandfather - grandmother. Son - daughter. Aunt - uncle.
Clothes: Pants, skirts, shirts, sweaters, dress, parka, coats, hat, shoes, boots. Accessories: bag, wallet, key, money, clock, alarm clock, glasses. Pencil, pen, bicycle, swimming, books, newspapers, a letter, candle, car, bus, flowers, phone, ambulance.
Pronouns:
I - we. – You - you. - He - she - it. - They.
Mine - Yours - Ours
Verbs:
To be, to have, to want, to read, to write, to learn, to sleep, to go (out, work, school), to come, to drive (car).
Adjectives:
Hot - Cool. - Small - Large. - Fat - Thin. - Long - Short. - Beautiful - Ugly. Sweet - Sour. - Good - Evil. - Bright - Dim. - Fun - Boring. - Old - Young. Clean - Dirty. - Empty - Full. - Hard working - Lazy. - Healthy - Sick.
Final objectives and skills
Student:
• says his name and how old he is
• says where he comes from and where his family lives
• says where he lives
• understands and tells what time it is
• understands numbers and amounts
• has words and names about the body
• says how he feels
Objective
The student gets a better handle on the language by listening, reading and doing projects.
Various texts, different topics, not too easy.
Pronunciation is practiced
Topics:
Everyday Phrases - With Friends, At work - Going to the Doctor - Buying Things Daily activities – Hobbies – Emotions – Feelings – Appearance – Clothing- Professions – Traveling - Body - Health
Interesting reading material /Short texts,
-A look inside the History of Iceland / Facts about Iceland
-Traditions
-Folk tales
-News
More useful grammar / Review
-Gender of Nouns (female, masculine, neuter)
The Plural of Nouns
Declension of Nouns: The Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive case
Pronouns:
I - we. – You - you. - He - she - it. - They.
Mine - His- Hers - Yours – Ours – Theirs.
Verbs:
Past Tense - Present Tense
Future Tense
To Be, To go, To take, to read, to sleep, to find, to drink, to say, to buy, to clean, to wash To have, to think, to love, to do to bake, to call, to write, to drive, to talk, to learn, to watch, to listen, to consider to cook, to forget, to look, to want, to remember, to hunt, to train, to hike, to sell, To be born- To die, to thank, to chat, to be able to ( can/ could), to say, to assist, to open, to help, to come, to go, to work, to advise, to offer
Different meaning of verbs:
To get (Að fá) To let (Að láta)
I will get one bread and one apple pie (Buy)
She gets good grades (achieve)
I am going to get soup and salat (eat)
Adjectives:
Clever – intelligent – fresh – satisfied – enormous – typical – boring – punctual - positive-negative – broken – used – safe – dirty – fast – calm – exciting – healthy – bitter – salty –sweet – curious – stubborn - busy - occupied – crazy – naughty - interesting - Dark- tired-full – amusing – great – angry – happy – pushy – avaricious – energetic – efficient - stubborn - giving
Comparison of Adjectives
Big-bigger-biggest, small-smaller-smallest, good-better-best, young-younger-youngest etc.
Quantity words
Many, All, Few, Some, Other, Most
Feelings- Expressions
I enjoy/ like- I don’t like to…
Wash oneself, Dress oneself, etc.
Final objectives and skills
Student can ask and answer questions / Can have a conversation
What, Who, Which, When, How, Where, Where from/to, Why etc.
Final project: Pupils prepare and exercise an introduction about them, then talk for two minutes, describing themselves, ending with recording it on video and looking at it.
Course III and IV both include review on basic grammar and word classes, with more complex grammar and exercises. They don´t have to be taken in the right order, it is possible to attend Icelandic IV before Icelandic III, as the emphasis differs in those courses.
Icelandic III
The emphasis is on talking: The student becomes capable of participating in simple discussion about particular topics.
Main word classes and grammatical outlines of them (prepositions, adjectives, regular and irregular verbs, nouns, adverbs) reviewed. In „nouns“ the usage of dative and genitive cases will be explored, e.g. in relation to movement and position along with subjunctive mood of „to be“ and declension of interrogative pronoun.
More complex text will be looked at along with things like simple Icelandic crossword puzzles and proverbs.
For discussion there are a few previously selected topics but also some topics that relate to interesting contemporary events/conflicts.
Icelandic IV
The emphasis is on writing and spelling: The student becomes capable of writing simple text, gets acquainted with Icelandic keyboard on computers.
Examples of the grammatical topics covered, in addition to the review on some basic points, are; declination of the numbers 1 to 4 and more on subjunctive mood.
Explored are terms like „Annað hvort ______ eða _______“ (either _______ or _______) and similar ones.
Topics in text touch, family, school, media; advertizes, memorials, news, etc.
Next courses starting:
Icelandic I - Feb. 20th.-Apr. 4th. - 17:00-19:00 - Mon. Wed. and Fri.
Icelandic I - Feb. 20th.-Apr. 4th. - 10:00-12:00 - Mon. Wed. and Fri.
Icelandic II - Feb. 20th.-Apr. 4th. - 17:00-19:00 - Mon. Wed. and Fri.
Icelandic III - Feb. 27th.-Apr. 16th. - 10:00-12:00 - Mond. Wed and Thu.
Icelandic III - Mar. 8th.-May 22nd. - 17:00-19:00 - Tue. and Thu.