Greek (Modern) Improvers

This course is suitable for those who have already studied Modern Greek for three terms. You will cover topics such as making and answering a phone call, writing an informal letter, the weather, the seasons and the months, transactions at the post office and the bank, ordering a meze selection at a taverna. You will also study the past tense and the imperative.

By the end of the course, you will have covered the following topic areas:

• Expressing necessity, possibility and desire
• Making requests
• Making and answering a phone call
• Talking about past actions
• Talking about the weather
• Talking about rooms to let and summer sport activities
• Comparing people and objects
• Making suppositions about possible future actions
• Giving orders or instructions
• You will also have studied the following aspects of grammar:
• The use of the simple subjunctive
• The simple past
• Personal pronouns (weak and strong form)
• Interrogative pronouns
• Comparative and superlative degree of adjectives
• Conditional speech – type 1
• The Imperative