The Cactus Course Outlines provide a learning framework for the Cactus Foreign Language Evening Courses. They are designed to provide you with a good idea of what you might cover over a 10-week period, and include typical themes, grammar and vocabulary fields. They are flexible rather than prescriptive, in that our teachers may decide to adapt their learning plans to the specific level, aims and interests of their classes. Use the tabs below to view the relevant Danish course outline for your level.
Danish Beginner 1
Topics & Vocabulary:
- Introducing yourself
- Greeting people
- Numbers 1 to 20
- Nationalities
- Travel and tourism
- Numbers above 20
- Danish money
- Shopping
- Yes/no questions
Grammar:
- Personal pronouns
- Present tense
- Asking questions
- Nouns and genders
- Articles in the singular
- Word order
- Plurals of nouns
- The use of nej, ja and jo
Cultural Content:
- Invitations, offers, suggestions, requests
- Everyday Danish Culture
- Everyday speaking and polite forms
- Seasonal festivals
- The Danish diaspora
- Idiomatic expressions
- Facts about the Danish: property, holidays, climate, etc
Skills Work:
- Lots of speaking/active practice
- Alphabet / Writing / Reading
- Lots of listening
- Pronunciation – key sounds
Danish Beginner 2
Topics & Vocabulary:
- Ordinal numbers
- Days and months
- Festive seasons
- Expressing good wishes
- On the phone
- Time expressions
- Apologising
Grammar:
- Past tense
- Past participle
- Present perfect
- Word order
- Adjectives
- Prepositions
- Auxiliary verbs
Cultural Content:
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- Invitations, offers, suggestions, requests
- Everyday Danish Culture
- Everyday speaking and polite forms
- Seasonal festivals
- The Danish diaspora
- Idiomatic expressions
- Facts about the Danish: property, holidays, climate, etc
Skills Work:
- Lots of speaking/active practice
- Alphabet / Writing / Reading
- Lots of listening
- Pronunciation – key sounds
Danish Beginner 3
Topics & Vocabulary:
- Likes and dislikes
- Films
- Writing letters
- Making suggestions
- Expressing enthusiasm
- Expressing promises
- Expressing regret
Grammar:
- Genitive
- Possessive adjectives
- Pronouns
- Imperatives
- Nouns ending in -er
- Det as a formal subject
Cultural Content:
- Everyday Danish Culture
- Everyday speaking and polite forms
- Danish table manners and eating habits
- Idiomatic expressions
- Facts about the Danish: property, holidays, climate, etc
Skills Work:
- Lots of speaking/active practice
- Alphabet / Writing / Reading
- Lots of listening
- Pronunciation – key sounds
Danish Elementary 1
Topics & Vocabulary:
- Expressing duty
- Daily routines
- Planning for the future
- The weather
- The Danish titanic
- Danish school system
Grammar:
- Object pronouns
- Reflexive pronouns
- ‘burde’ and expressing duty
- Adverbs ud/ude, hjem/hjemme
- Short answers
- Ikke and adverbs in subordinate clauses
- Quantifiers
- Comparative adjectives
- Countable/uncountable nouns
Cultural Content:
- Everyday Danish Culture
- Danish school system
- Idiomatic expressions
- Facts about the Danish: property, holidays, climate, etc
Skills Work:
- Lots of speaking/active practice
- Alphabet / Writing / Reading
- Lots of listening
- Pronunciation – key sounds
Danish Elementary 2
Topics & Vocabulary:
- Telling the time
- Describing people
- Agreeing/disagreeing
- Offering help
- Transport and directions
- Responding to offers
- Showing preference
- Expressing opinions
- Talking about the future
Grammar:
- Compound nouns
- Sentences with ‘If’
- Demonstrative pronouns and adjectives
- Adjectives and nouns ending in -el. –en, -er
- Translating ‘to know’
- Who(m), which, that
- Some, any
Cultural content:
- Everyday Danish Culture
- Transport in Denmark
- How Danes live
- Idiomatic expressions
- Facts about the Danish: property, holidays, climate, etc
Skills Work:
- Lots of speaking/active practice
- Alphabet / Writing / Reading
- Lots of listening
- Pronunciation – key sounds
Danish Elementary 3
Topics & Vocabulary:
- Question tags
- Paying compliments
- The Danish boss
- Showing uncertainty and indifference
- Disagreeing and swearing
- Newspapers
- Danish abbreviations
Grammar:
- Adverb positioning
- ‘When’
- ‘all’, ‘the whole’, ‘self’, ‘both’
- Repeating a question
- Passive with active meaning
- ‘At fa’ and ‘at have’
- ‘No’ and ‘none’
- -ing form
Cultural Content:
- Everyday Danish Culture
- The Danish Constitution
- Some Danish history
- Danish state church
- Idiomatic expressions
- Facts about the Danish: property, holidays, climate, etc
Skills Work:
- Lots of speaking/active practice
- Alphabet / Writing / Reading
- Lots of listening
- Pronunciation – key sounds
Danish Advanced
Topics & Vocabulary:
- Traditions
- Festivals
- Literature
- Stereotypes
- In the office
- Consumer rights – making complaints
- Working in Denmark
- Professional life
- Education
- Employment
- Medias
Grammar:
- Indefinite form of nouns review
- Verb tenses review
- Idioms
- Irregular verbs
- Adjectives review
- Word order review
- Transitive and intransitive verbs
- Demonstrative pronouns review
- Word order review
- Prepositional phrases
- Evaluative adjectives
Cultural Content:
- Culture
- Traditions
- Festivals
- Literature
- Religion
- Working in Denmark
- Idiomatic expressions
- Formal and informal language
- Manners and behaviors
Skills Work:
- Speaking activities such as making complaints, discuss problems and suggest solutions, expressing opinions
- Writing practice such as small novels
- Pronunciation
- Listening exercises
Danish Proficiency
Topics & Vocabulary:
- Primarily topics of students’ choice
Grammar:
- Choice of grammar topics according to students’ needs
- Informal and formal language
- Idioms
Cultural Content:
- Literature and film – extracts
- Personal experiences
Skills Work:
- Focus on speaking, debating
- Writing practice – e.g. short stories, reviews and comments, advertisements, film scripts
- Plenty of listening activities – authentic sources, e.g. Radio, TV, films and podcasts
- Analyzing and evaluating newspapers articles
- Summarizing interviews, biographies
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