German Language and Culture VII

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Continuous assessment involves the following:

- Oral participation in class;
- Homework assignments;
- Quizzes.

The final written exam is 90 minutes long and takes place in the last class. It includes reading, listening, writing and grammar exercises.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to:

– understand the main points of familiar topics related to work, school, leisure, etc.;

– use German to deal with nearly all everyday situations;

– write simple and well structured texts on familiar topics;

– describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions, as well as present reasons and justifications for personal opinions and projects

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Thematic areas

- The city of Berlin: monuments and history

- Emigration: informações,

- The city of Innsbruck

- The German political system: federal states, parliamentary elections, political parties

- German-speaking regions; history of the German language; language varieties

 

Grammar:

- Plusquamperfekt – active and passive voice

- temporal clauses (Nebensätze) with bevor, nachdem, während

- the future with werden

- brauchen … nur zu +infinitive

- connectors: je desto.. umso,

- relative clauses with was and wo…

- indefinite article manch-/einig-

- relative clauses and pronouns in the genitive case

Head Lecturer(s)

Andreas Anthony Isenberg

Assessment Methods

Assessement
Continuous assessment: 50.0%
Final written exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Braun, Brigit, et al. (2011), DaF kompakt / Kurs- und Übungsbuch mit 2 Audio-CDs B1: Deutsch als Fremdsprache für Erwachsene. Stuttgard: Klett.

ISBN-10: 3126761887

ISBN-13: 978-3126761888