This program is provisional and subject to change in accord with the specific needs of the students.

Course overview

Prerequisites:
The student can enter this level either if he or she had completed Greek I A in a previous course organized by the Polis Institute or if he or she has succesfully passed the placement test during the first day of the summer course.

Course description:
This course is designed for students who have already learned Greek to various degrees, but do not yet have experience speaking. The course will start with basics and proceed rapidly in accordance with the students’ previous knowledge.

Minimal contents of course topics:
Two first nominal declensions
First system of adjectives
System of present tense, active and passive (save subjunctive and participles)
System of the aorist tense, active and medium (imperative, infinitive)
Verbs in –ô and –mi, contract verbs in -eô
Pronouns

Possible extension of course topics:
Third declension for nouns
Second and third system of adjectives
Present tense active participles
Aorist tense active and middle (indicative, subjunctive, participles)
Contract verbs in –oô and –aô
Prepositional system

Goals
Progressing in Koine Greek. Deep assimilation of the morphology of the language. Ability to hold a conversation in Koine Greek and to
understand directly, without translating, a very simple Greek narrative text (a
selection of texts from the Gospel of John and Revelation). Active assimilation of 1,300 words of the Greek lexicon. Students will complete at least the entire Polis level One course book (20 chapters).

Lessons and materials

Class format:
Polis method: complete immersion in the language, total physical response technique (TPR) and participative storytelling (TPR Storytelling).

Teaching aids:
Polis book

Exams and grading system

Three written exams for the whole duration of the course. For each exam, several morphology and syntax exercises as well as an essay in Greek are required.

Grade:
A: Excellence: 96 - 100%
B: Above the average standard: 86 - 95%
C: Average standard: 76 - 85%
D: Below the average standard: 66 - 75%
E: Minimum criteria to pass: 60 - 65%
E: Fail: 0 - 59%