Chapter/Text

What to learn

Grammar

Pronunciation

Personal pronouns
Verbs, present tense
Nouns, three genders
Question words
Word order
Nationalities

The alphabet
Norwegian and English
letters compared

1 Going to Trondheim

Ken
Anna
Maria
Peter

Introducing oneself
Simple statements and
questions
Simple negative
statements
Numbers

2 Arrival in Trondheim

Ken
Anna
Maria
Peter

Asking for help

Asking for directions
The days
The time

Personal pronouns,
object form
Auxiliary verbs +
Vowels
infinitive
Norwegian and English
Nouns, indefinite and
vowels compared
definite form
Question words, hvilken
Word order

3 Settling in at the student housing area

Ken
Anna
Maria
Peter

Rooms and furniture

Colours
Ordinals

Reflexive pronouns
Nouns, genitive,
irregular forms
Diphtongs
Adjectives, main pattern
Adverbs
Prepositions, i and p

Going to the shopping

centre
Going to the police
station
Food and drink
Clothes

Demonstrative pronouns
Verbs, infinitive
Consonants
Adjectives, other
Silent letters
patterns

Talking about the past

A little bit about
Trondheim

Verbs, past tense

Adjectives in -el, -en
Time expressions
Words for quantities

4 Everyday life

Ken
Anna
Maria
Peter

5 In town
Ken
Anna
Maria
Peter

Consonants

6 At the university

Ken
Anna
Maria
Peter

Going to Dragvoll and

Glshaugen campus
Going to a Norwegian
class
Handy vocabulary for
students

Verbs, present perfect

Adjectives, definite
Long or short vowels
form
Stress
Word order, subordinate Word tones
clauses

7 Family & Spare time

1 Familie
2 Fritid

Talking about family

Possessive pronouns
relations
Som (who/which)
Talking about spare time
Da and nr (when)
Time expressions

Retroflex sounds

8 Going on a trip & Being ill

1 P tur
2 Peter er syk

Talking about the

weather
Months and seasons
Describing pain and
discomfort

Reflexive possessives,
sin
Adjectives, comparison Reductions
Prepositions, time
expressions

9 In the office & At a conference

Handy vocabulary when
P kontoret working at the
1
P konferanse university
2
Writing an e-mail
Going to a conference

Word order, main clause

/ subordinate clause
Connected speech
Fordi and derfor
Short answers

10 A trip to Oslo & Christmas in Norway

Regions in Norway
1 En tur til Oslo A little bit about Oslo
2 Jul i Norge
Celebrating a
Norwegian Christmas

S - adverb,
conjunction, verb
Prepositions, about
place
Prepositions, til and hos
Comma rules

Speech rhythm
Unstressed syllables
Rhythm unit: The foot
Initial unstressed
syllables
One last hint