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Chapter 1 : Het huishouden: iemand moet het doen!
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Chapter 2 : Het woord is aan jou! (Go ahead, w’re listening!)
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Chapter 3 : De tijden veranderen (The times they are changing.)
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Chapter 4 : Op je gezondheid! (Cheers, to your health!)
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Chapter 5 : Naar school (To school)
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Chapter 6 : Feest vieren (Holidays)
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Chapter 7 : Politie: die pet past ons allemaal.
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Chapter 8 : Vragenlijst Vrije tijd (Questionnaire leisure.)
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Chapter 9 : Wat moet ik doen als ik ziek ben?
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Chapter 10 : De Randstad (The Randstad.)
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Chapter 11 : Opinie en debat. (Opinion and debate.)
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Chapter 12 : Werk vinden in Nederland. (Finding a job in NL.)
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Chapter 13 : De Nederlandse bevolking. (The Dutch population)
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Chapter 14 : Bedankt voor het wachten! (Thanks for waiting!)
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Chapter 15 : Stad onder de grond (Underground city.)
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Chapter 16 : Afdeling Burgerzaken (Department civil services)
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Chapter 17 : Twaalf provincies (Twelf provinces)
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Chapter 18 : Hoi met mij. (Hi, it’s me.)
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Chapter 19 : Een blik op de geschiedenis (A view on our history.)
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Chapter 20 : Wie heeft de meeste macht? (Who is most powerfull?)
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Chapter 21 : Ik ga jullie iets vertellen over…
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Chapter 22 : Het slotdebat (The final debate)
Course Description
What do you do if you need a doctor? How can you buy a train or bus ticket? What are the opening hours for shops and what kinds of schools can people attend in the Netherlands? These everyday subjects are dealt with in the Green Book, the textbook for beginners.
The Green Book contains 43 texts. These texts include the 1200 most common words in the Dutch language, the words that you will therefore need to use most often. Lessons are chiefly devoted to conversation practice. This means that within a very short space of time you will be able to converse reasonably well in the Dutch language. The objective is to simultaneously develop listening and speaking skills.
Elementary 2 (from level A1 to A2)
Level
CEF from A1 to A2.
Study workload
Around 8 hours a week.
Material
“Nederlands voor Buitenlanders”, tekstboek (het Groene Boek), 4th edition 2009.
This method is also online available.
Integrated Language
Piet, Dutch nationality, studied general linguistics at Leyden University, Netherlands. From 1983 till May 2017 he has been teaching Dutch as a second language at Delft University of Technology to students and university employees from outside the Netherlands, as well as to business people. He is a co-author of several text books in the series “The Delft Method”, a method well known in and outside the Netherlands for its unconventional approach of language learning, briefly characterized as a natural way of language learning, “learning by doing”. The text books of he series are used in university and commercial language institutes in as well as outside the Netherlands.
He performed research in order to improve learning materials , focusing on the effectiveness of language exercises, and contributed tot he development of online materials. He assisted at developing Dutch language courses in other institutions. He valued very much supervising teacher trainees and instructed teachers of language institutes on teaching with the “Delft Method”. Currently he contributes to new learning materials, advises teachers in workshops on The Delft Method and provides language training to students.
In his classes, chiefly devoted to speaking, students are challenged to use the language experience while having a normal conversation with each other and the teacher. He is tolerant towards errors initially, overcoming the communication barrier being the main initial goal. Grammatical and lexical correctness and fluency will improve while speaking with and listening to others. Of course feedback will frequently be given. Students will experience from day one: it works.