At the end of this course, the students; 1) Learn basic grammar structures. 2) Develop basic reading and listening skills. 3) Learn the basic words and sentence structures to communicate at a basic level.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
Yes(GMS135)
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
None
COURSE DEFINITION
In this course, students learn German language reading, listening, speaking and writing skills and use the correct language strategies to make sense.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Course description, asking for help and prepositions of place and "-e status"
2nd Week
Describing and evaluating something, apartments and houses, possessive pronouns and "state of"
3rd Week
Place evaluation, "-e status" and "-e status" of person pronouns
4th Week
Asking for help, offering help, prepositions of time
5th Week
Expressing wishes, talking about plans, prepositions and auxiliary verb "to ask"
6th Week
Describing pain, making suggestions, talking about illness, body parts, sentence and auxiliary verb "sollen"
7th Week
General Review
8th Week
Midterm
9th Week
Chat, person description, appearance, personality, past tense, word formation with "-un" prefix
10th Week
Request and request, household chores, sentence, person pronoun
11th Week
Don't say your own opinion, talk about the rules, traffic and the environment, auxiliary "dirfen" and "mussen"
12th Week
Talking about clothes, comparison and grading
13th Week
Show reason, talk about weather conditions, directions and word formation with "-los" prefix
14th Week
Expressing wishes, congratulations, adjectives and ordering
15th Week
Final Exam
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
1. Evans, S., Glas-Peters, S., Pude, A. & Specht, F. (2012). Menschen: Deutsch als Fremdsprache. A1. 2. Horvathova, V. (2009). Darstellung von Lesestrategien in Deutsch-als-Fremdsprache-Lehrwerken em Hauptkurs und Aspekte B1+.
