German Language and Culture IV

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.

The courses assessment is guided by a set of rules, available in http://www.uc.pt/fluc/cl/regulamentos/fluc/cl/ficheiros/regulamento_aval

Learning Outcomes

German Language and Culture - Level IV aims to teach written and spoken German language both at reception and production level. The course objectives follow the guidelines of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ​​(CEFR) for A2 level .

At the end of A2 level, students will have the following language skills:
• Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment);
• Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information, as subjects of their knowledge.
• Can describe in simple terms aspects of his past, the surrounding environment and matters in areas of immediate needs.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Subject areas:

Meteorological weather, Buying clothes, Planning a trip,Visiting a city, description of itineraries, Professional training, Professions, Calls for internships, Story of a company, 1st day on stage, Tourist Regions in Germany,  Accommodation and food, Sports.

Grammatical items listed:

The diminutive, Interrogative pronouns Welch-, Statement dies-, Indefinite articles jed-, kein-, all-,-viel, wenig-,  Adverbs bei bis (zu), links, rechts, gegenüber von entlang, rein, raus,  Questions and requests, recommendations and proposals using the conjunctive mode II haben, können, durfen, werden, sollen, Complements and Adjectives in genitive, Phrases and relative pronouns, Passive tenses, Comparison of adjectives: comparative and superlative, Comparison with so / genauso wie als, Temporal phrases with wenn , als, The negative prefix un - Werden+supplements and adjectives in the nominative, Comparison of adjectives: comparative and superlative, Comparison with so/genauso wie als.

Head Lecturer(s)

Katrin Pieper

Frank Leppert

Assessment Methods

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

Bibliography

Manual DaF kompakt A2