Finnish for foreigners: Picnic. Spring 2014

Study visit to the Botania garden and Picnic.

Isohelmililja

On the occasion of approacing summer suggestopedian group had an open-air lesson on Monday 28.05. We started it in the Joensuu botanical garden. The students participated in a Garden Quest. Three teams were given a task to find certain plants in the garden and to mark them on the map and to describe them according to a given example. The team that found the biggest quantity of plants won the contest.

In the quest list there were 14 plants: Särkynytsydän, karviainen, ukontulikukka, kultatyrakki, piippuköynnös, lehtikuusi, luutakuusi, valkoherukka, tyrni, kanadantuija, kielo, pihlaja, keltanarsissi and pähkinäpensas. By the way, do you know these plants? Are they trees, bushes or flowers or maybe something else? How do they look like?

After the quest we turned back to Botania cafe and checked the results of the game by answering the following questions:

- Onko kasvi puu, pensas vai kukka?

- Minkänäköinen tämä kasvi on?

- Jos kasvi on puu, onko se havu-, lehti- vai hedelmäpuu?

- Onko kasvi lääkekasvi?

- Onko kasvi myrkkykasvi?

- Jos kasvi on kukka, minkävärinen kukka sillä on?

- Jos kasvi on pensas, onko se marjapensas?

Also we learned the names of loved Finnish berries and flowers and how to decline them in plural partitiivi.

Unfortunatelly the quest-day was rainy. I thank everyone who was not afraid to get his feet wet:)