German Language and Culture Intensive Course A1

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Classes are taught in a communicative and collaborative context, using multimedia materials, and involving interaction among class participants.

The final exam (90 minutes), takes place in the last class and includes reading, listening, writing and grammar questions.

Learning Outcomes

This course prepares students to reach level A1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Thus, at the end of the course they will be able to

– understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of concrete needs;

– introduce themselves and others and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people they know and things they have;

– interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Thematic areas:

– Introductions and greetings

–  Countries and continents

– Personal information

– Numbers from 0 to 1000 000 000

– Days of the week and parts of the day

–  Telling the time (formal and informal)

–  Seasons and months

–  Vocabulary related to house and home

– Occupation, profession, college degrees

–  Family

–  Sports and leisure activities

–  Housing

–  Furniture

–  Clothing

–  Giving directions

–  Monuments

–  Art and painting

–  Food and drink

–  Restaurant menus

Grammar:

–  verb placement in declarative and interrogative sentences

–  definite articles

–  conjugation of regular and irregular verbs in the simple present

–  modal verbs (forms, use and sentence construction)

–  haben and sein in the Präterirum

–  Perfekt

–  Verbs with separable and inseparable prefixes

–  Imperative (formal and informal)

–  Adjectives in the nominative and accusative cases after indefinite or negative article and possessive pronoun.

Head Lecturer(s)

Frank Leppert

Assessment Methods

Continuous assessment
Final written exam: 50.0%
Homework, short tests, oral participation in class: 50.0%

Bibliography

Manual

Braun, Birgit, Margit Doubek et al. DaF kompakt neu A1. Kurs- und Übungsbuch mit MP3-CD A1

978-3-12-676313-4