German Language and Culture I

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Continuous assessment includes the following criteria:

- Oral participation in the classes

- Homework

- Small assessment tests

The written final exam has a 90 minutes duration, and it is held in the last block of classes.  It will include reading, listening, writing and grammar exercises.

Learning Outcomes

Teach the German language in its written and spoken form, both reception and production. The course objectives are oriented according to level A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ​​(CEFR) and will only be completed at the end of Initiation to German Language Course Level II, (2nd semester)

At the end of level A1, the student will have acquired the following language skills:

• Students will be able to understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of specific needs.
• Students will be able to introduce themselves to others and answer questions about themselves, about the place where they live, about people they know and the objects that belong to them.

Students will be able to interact on an elementary level provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Subject areas:
- Get introduced and greeting
- Countries and continents
- Languages and nationalities
- Personal Information
- The numbers from 0 to 1,000,000,000
- Spelling
- Days of the week and day parts
- Hours: official and colloquial
- Ordinal numbers
- Seasons and months
- Vocabulary: "home"
- Food and Beverage
- Measures and packagings
- Prices and currencies
- Jobs / university courses
- Family
- Sport and free time
- Proposals announcements for leisure
- Abbreviations
Grammatical items:
- The  verb position in declarative and interrogative sentences
- The definite article der, die, das
- Regular and irregular verbs in the present tense
- Modal verbs (forms, use and sentence structure)
- The verbs haben and sein in Präterirum

Head Lecturer(s)

Frank Leppert

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Continuous assessment: 50.0%
Written final exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Manual DaF Kompakt A1