Finnish 4, online teaching, Sep-Oct

Course information

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, you will be able to

- talk about your hobbies and free time 
- talk about events in different tenses 
- write a CV and job application 
- prepare for a job interview 
- pick out key information from a job advertisement and ask for more information  
- find key information in an event announcement 
- read sales advertisements and write your own sales advertisement.

Content

- Vocabulary (leisure and hobbies, recycling, working life) 
- Plural partitive and genitive: (e.g., työntekijöitä, työntekijöiden)   
- Passive present tense (e.g., mennään, lähetetään) 
- Past tenses: simple past, present perfect and past perfect (e.g., pelasin, olen pelannut, olin pelannut) 
- Essive and translative cases (e.g., valmistuin insinööriksi, työskentelen insinöörinä)

Teacher

Iida Airasmaa

Study material

Tapaninen, Kuparinen: Oma suomi 2 (new edition, chapters 1-5) and extra material by the teacher

Workload

Contact hours 36 h and independent work 45 h

Prerequisites

ALC-7230 Suomi 3

Evaluation

The course requires regular attendance, active participation in class and completion of homework assignments. The weight given to the various assignments in the final grade is specified at the start of the course. 

Teaching time and location

9.11.2026-25.1.2027. Teaching hours on Mondays and Thursdays at 10.15–11.45 Finnish time. Please check the exact teaching dates in the table below.

Teaching hours are not recorded. Students are expected to be present at the lectures.

Exams

Written and oral examination. The written examinations will be held as a remote examination in MyCourses. Oral examination time will be given by the teacher. The teacher will give further information on examinations.

The written examination is on Thu 28.1.2027. No registration is required.
Re-examination will be held on Mon 22.2.2027. Please, register in Sisu on 15.2.2026 at the latest. 

Exam instructions at the Open University

The teacher has four (4) weeks to grade the exam submissions starting from the exam date.

Exam instructions at the Open UniversityOpen University exam halls

Online learning environment for the course  

MyCourses online learning environment is a tool for both students and teachers for communication and managing everyday course work. You need an Aalto User ID to log in to the course's MyCourses workspace and participate in teaching.

Digital workspace of the course:
MyCourses 

More details on completing the course will be available at MyCourses closer to the start of the course.

Registration and course fee

Registration for Open University courses is done via the link below: 
Course registration 

Please note that the places are filled in order of registrations and the registration will close after the 35 spots have been filled.

Registration for this course starts on 21.9.2026 at 9.00  
Registration for this course ends on 2.11.2026 at 23.59

It is not possible to register before the registration period has started or after it has ended.

The course fee is paid upon registration for each course at a time and it is binding. Familiarize yourself with registration and payment rules as well as other guidelines for students:
Registration, payments and rules

This course is organized by the Aalto University Open University.
The number of participants is limited to 35. The course will be organized if there are at least 12 registered students.