Foundation Course E in Supplementary Swedish for Lower Secondary (Years 4–6), ages 10–11

The course provides students with practice in the following aspects of Swedish and Swedish culture, in accordance with the Swedish National Agency for Education’s syllabus for supplementary Swedish:

• The Swedish alphabet and the relationship between sounds and letters
• The structure of the Swedish language, including capital and lowercase letters, full stops, question marks and exclamation marks, as well as spelling rules for commonly used Swedish words in student-relevant texts
• Reading strategies for understanding and interpreting texts in Swedish, and for adapting reading to the text’s form and content
• Strategies for writing different types of texts in Swedish, adapted to their typical structure and linguistic features. Creating texts where the Swedish language interacts with images.
• Listening and retelling in Swedish in different conversational situations
• Oral storytelling in Swedish for different audiences and purposes, for example to entertain or to teach.
• Swedish words and concepts used to express feelings, knowledge and opinions
• How words and utterances are perceived by others depending on tone of voice and the nuances of words.
• Differences between spoken and written Swedish, for example that speech can be reinforced through voice and body language.
• Traditions and holidays that the student encounters in different contexts

Teaching follows the recommended teaching time stated by the Swedish National Agency for Education for government grants: 2 × 37 hours.
To receive a diploma, students must complete the course study components according to the checklist. For distance teaching, this means, for example, attendance at at least 25 lessons and completion of the reading requirement and submitted assignments.

The course follows a study plan with 30 lessons. The lessons are described in assignment schedules where all study components are listed with page and file references.

Teaching is planned by Annika Lindh Cully, a certified teacher. During the school year, Swedish traditions are integrated into the teaching, for example Lucia, Christmas, Shrove Tuesday, Easter and the end-of-school-year celebration.

All courses are designed in accordance with SMUL Academy’s educational concept.

The course uses printed teaching materials that are sent to the student’s address.

• ZickZack 4, Läsrummet, textsamling – in this text collection, students encounter different types of texts that focus on reading enjoyment and reading comprehension of fiction and non-fiction. Students also read texts such as stories, articles, news briefs, letters, author profiles, poems and factual texts. The different text types are grouped thematically, for example the Middle Ages, Life and Death, Nature and the Environment, Crime and Punishment. The texts are intended for shared reading with reference to different reading strategies.
• ZickZack 4, Läsrummet, övningsbok – the workbook contains exercises to do before and after reading—exercises that provide prior understanding and reflect what the student has read, practise words and concepts as well as reading comprehension, and in this way deepen the reading experience and develop reading ability. The reading comprehension questions practise the ability to find the answer on, between and beyond the lines
• ZickZack 4, Skrivrummet, övningsbok – the writing component focuses on writing different types of texts. ZickZack 4 Skrivrummet is an all-in-one book, meaning it contains both model texts and exercises. Here, students learn to write for different purposes—by narrating, describing, explaining, instructing, arguing and retelling. They learn how different texts are structured and which linguistic features each text type has. They build their language and practise vocabulary and grammar in a text context.

In addition, exercises on the digital platform Bingel are used, linked to ZickZack 4 Läsrummet and Skrivrummet, as well as

• Sweden’s 25 Wonders. In this teaching material, students read about traditional Swedish sights such as the Göta Canal, the Vasa ship and Drottningholm, but also about older tourist destinations such as Birka, Visby’s city wall and the Rök Stone, etc. The material is available as a PDF in the course folder on Google Drive.
• Liber Svenska 4 digital is an enjoyable and engaging digital teaching resource based on literature, giving students the conditions to develop their abilities whether they study Swedish as a first or second language. In the resource, which is entirely digital, the student can access excerpts from well-known children’s and young adult books as well as other text types such as articles, factual texts, poems and interviews. Students are offered self-marking content questions, discussion questions, reading comprehension tasks, and access to larger assignments for all texts and reviews.
• In addition, students will develop their listening comprehension using parts of the dramatized radio versions of Mio, My Son and The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren, as well as other current material from, for example, UR Play and SR (Swedish Radio) that relates to the various themes covered in the course.

View a sample of Zick Zack 4 Läsrummet >>
View a sample of Zick Zack 4 Skrivrummet >>
View a sample of Liber Svenska 4 digital here>>
Read more about Sweden’s 25 Wonders >>

If you have questions about the detailed course structure, we recommend that you read the page Frequently asked questions about SMUL Academy

Class E1 Europe (Wednesday)
Teacher: Anna Samrud

Stockholm: 18:00

Class E2 North America/Asia (Wednesday)
Teacher: Annika Lind Cully

Dallas: 17:00
New York: 18:00
Singapore: 06:00/07:00 (depending on daylight saving time)
Sydney: 08:00/10:00 (depending on daylight saving time)

Class E3 North America (West) (Thursday)
Teacher: Annika Lind Cully

Dallas: 19:30
New York: 20:30

Class E4 Asia (Wednesday)
Teacher: Anna Samrud

Singapore: 18:15/19:15
Tokyo: 19:15/20:15
Note: This course is based on Swedish time 12:15

Class E5 Global (Sunday)
Teacher: Mimmi Pinto

Los Angeles: 15:00
New York: 18:00
Sydney: 8:00

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