Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

German A2.1

Code

711101077

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas, Secção de Estudos Alemães

Credits

6

Weekly hours

4

Teaching language

German

Objectives

Basic User A2
a) Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).
b) Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
c) Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.

Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Subject matter

Vocabulary and specific information on following topics: Work and employment, life stories, generations, home and living, money, socialising, sports.
Grammatical structures: Subordinate clauses, simple past of modal verbs, verbs with prepositions, reflexive pronouns, local prepositions, comparative degree and superlative, declination of adjectives.
Working methods: Reading and listening to texts,, audiovisual materials, producing written and oral texts, discussions, presentations.

Bibliography

BOSCHEL, C., Giersberg, D., Hägi, S., Ja genau! A2, Band 1, Berlin, Cornelsen Verlag, 2012
DALLAPIAZZA, R.-M., VON JAN, E., SCHÖNHERR, T. Tangram aktuell 2, Lektion 1-4, Ismaning, Max Hueber Verlag, 2004, 152 pp.;
REIMANN, Monika, Grundstufen-Grammatik für Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Ismaning, Max Hueber Verlag, 2001, 238 pp.;

Teaching method

Communicative method seeking to stimulate interaction and engender increasingly autonomous learning.
Intercultural approach which raises the student’s awareness of cultural diversity
carrying out tasks which draw on linguistic and extra-linguistic competences

Evaluation method

Continous assessment, written tests, oral tests, presentation of project work.

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