Krížom krážom Slovenčina A2

The book is the second volume of the series of the Slovak languagetextbooks, Krizom-krazom, designed for learners who are interested in leaming Slovak in an interesting and attractive way.


Krizom-krazom Slovencina A2 is the second volume of the series of the Slovak language textbooks, Krizom-krazom, designed for learners who are interested in leaming Slovak in an interesting and attractive way.

The first in the series was the book for beginners, Krizom-krazom - Slovencina A1, published in Bratislava in 2007. Krizom-krazom: Slovencina A2, aimed specifically at pre-intermediate students, contains a set of 2 audio CDs with the recordings of the dialogues and exercises, and provides learners with the most frequent day-to-day situations whose phrases and vocabulary are explained in units. As learners go through the book, all the basic skills of acquiring a foreign language are practised (reading, listening, writing and speaking) in line with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) assigned for the Level A2 - Basic User (Waystage).

The textbook was developed by teachers and researchers of the Studia Academica Slovaca Centre (the Centre for Slovak as a Foreign Language) which is a research and educational centre of the Faculty of Arts at Comenius University in Bratislava. It is published as part ot the project called Learning Programme of Slovak as a Foreign Language supported by the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic and is later intended to cover study materials for all language levels.

Krizom-krazom: Slovencina A2 includes 10 topic-based units introducing day-to-day situations in the lives of the four main characters of the course. All the units (except for Units 1 and 10 which are review and revision units) have an identical structure that is easy-to-follow. There are five dialogues recorded on the CDs, new words explained by both definitions and illustrations and followed by reading comprehension exercises on dialogues, a vocabu