MGRE1201 Introductory Modern Greek Part 1

The topic is designed for students who have had no or limited formal instruction in the Modern Greek language. Students receive a systematic introduction to the Modern Greek language in order to gradually develop and improve their communication and written skills.

This topic aims to:

• Introduce students to the Modern Greek language through systematic and progressive reading, writing and listening activities
• Develop students' oral skills in order to communicate in an elementary way on everyday-life topics
• Introduce students to a selective historical and cultural perspective of Greece
• Encourage students to develop critical skills through cross-cultural and cross-linguistic approaches

1. Recognise, reproduce and distinguish grammatical, syntactic, lexical and phonetic patterns
2. Construct elementary written and spoken texts
3. Communicate in elementary written and spoken form of Modern Greek
4. Recognise, understand, compare and contrast historical and cultural aspects of Greece