The programme aims to:

• Introduce students to simple phrases and sentences used in basic conversation, e.g.: introducing oneself, greeting, reserving a hotel room, ordering food and drink, talking about your job, finding your way around town, talking about likes and dislikes and holidays.
• Give students the basic grammar and vocabulary needed for simple communication, e.g. present tense forms, adjectives, articles, basic modal verbs, and prepositions of place.
• Provide students with the techniques needed to listen with confidence to simplified, everyday dialogues when spoken clearly and slowly.
• Introduce students to some areas of Swedish culture such as food and drink, greetings, festivals and places.
• Enable students to extract information from very simple written texts such as forms, menus and short, simplified articles, and to write short simple emails or messages and fill in information on a form, e.g. hotel registration form.

On completion of the programme, students should be able to:

1. in speaking, use simple words and phrases to handle basic situations when travelling.
2. in writing, produce very short simple texts, e.g. postcards, short emails, smartphone messages, or form filling.
3. in listening, grasp the key ideas from very simple conversations when the language is slow and clear.
4. in reading, extract key ideas from menus, forms and short, simplified texts on everyday topics.

The module aims to:

• Introduce students to simple phrases and sentences used in basic conversation, e.g.: introducing oneself, greeting, reserving a hotel room, ordering food and drink, talking about your job, finding your way around town, talking about likes and dislikes and holidays.
• Give students the basic grammar and vocabulary needed for simple communication, e.g. present tense forms, adjectives, articles, basic modal verbs, and prepositions of place.
• Provide students with the techniques needed to listen with confidence to simplified, everyday dialogues when spoken clearly and slowly.
• Introduce students to some areas of Swedish culture such as food and drink, greetings, festivals and places.
• Enable students to extract information from very simple written texts such as forms, menus and short, simplified articles, and to write short simple emails or messages and fill in information on a form, e.g. hotel registration form.

Syllabus

Greetings: saying hello, giving one’s nationality, talking about where we live, basic pronunciation, simple present tense.
Travel: booking a hotel room, a trip around Sweden, form filling, spelling one’s name, questions, negatives in present tense, reading and writing a postcard, pronunciation å, ä, and ö.
Dining out: vocabulary of cafes and restaurants, ordering food, numbers and prices, definite and indefinite articles, pronunciation of difficult sounds, reading a menu, reading about restaurant culture in Sweden.
Jobs: vocabulary of jobs, interviewing about work, adjectives to describe work, verb do / make, class survey on work, weekly routines, modal verbs can and have to, question words.
Around town: Asking for and giving directions around town, telling the time, prepositions of place, vocabulary of shops and places in town.
Past time: language of free time activities, past tense to ask about weekend activities, reading and writing short emails and letters, vocabulary of family members and festivals, possessive pronouns, reading about festivals in Sweden.
Shopping: vocabulary of clothes and colours, conversation in a shop, vocabulary of different shops, shopping in the Swedish culture, expressions of quantity and containers e.g. a can of, a box of etc, Swedish currency, personal pronouns.
Holidays: places to visit, holiday activities, months, reflexive verbs, place and date.

Assessment

Course participants' progress is measured through a number of assessment components including:

• A mid-course progress test
• A final test
• Oral work – continuous assessment
• A final oral test

Award

Students who successfully pass* the programme are eligible for the "Certificate in Swedish (Introductory)" awarded within the HKU system through HKU SPACE.

 *Passing the programme means students have to meet the following requirements:

• Overall passing mark: 50%, and
• Attendance Requirement: 70% of the total contact hours.

IMPORTANT Notes to Applicants:

• Applicants are normally required to provide information from their HKID card (for local applicants) or passport (for non-local applicants) for admission assessment and student records purposes. Applicants to award-bearingprogrammes will also be asked to present their HKID/passport for verification if applying in person atenrolment counters or to attach a copy of their HKID or passport if applying by post. 
• To study in Hong Kong, all non-local applicants are required to obtain a student visa issued by the Immigration Department of the HKSAR Government, except for those admitted to Hong Kong asdependants, who do not need prior approval before taking up full-time and part-time studies. Non-local applicants issued with a valid employment visa also do not need prior approval to pursue part-time studies. It is the responsibility of individual applicants to make appropriate visa arrangements. 
• Should you enroll online within one week before the course starts, please contact the Programme Team as soon as possible. 
• Approximately one week before the course commencement, students will receive an email with all the details including a course schedule. All the course materials will be given in the first lesson. Students should attend the first session of the class at the specified time and place unless any change is made to the advertised details.
• The course will be confirmed only upon sufficient enrolment.
• Swapping between parallel groups (if any) is not allowed under any circumstances.
• No make-up classes will be offered for students’ absence.
• No refunds or transfers to a different class will be approved.

Application Code	2245-3537AW	Apply Online Now
Start Date	19 Sep 2024 (Thu)
Time	6:45 p.m. - 9:45 p.m.
Venue	HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College (HPSHCC) Campus
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Duration

• 40 meeting(s)
• 3 hours per meeting

Venue

• HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College (HPSHCC) Campus

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Course Fee

• Course Fee : HK$9,800

Applicants shall have:

1. no previous knowledge of the language or be false beginners, and
2. sufficient English proficiency to follow simple explanations in English.

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