Course aims:

It guides the student in building the relevant grammatical structures and comunicative strategies.
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Course Entry Requirements:

The lessons from the first semester.

Course contents:

1. Welcome to Berlin? (Communication: make Places – ask for directions – provide guidance; Grammar: dative in sentence; dative forms; preposition with dative; imperative; Understanding: to understand an e-mail; Text -Sights in Berlin) 2. Room, Kitchen, Badroom (Communication: to talk about to live somehow; to express desires; Grammar: modal verbs wollen/können; perfect from “haben” and “sein”; Understanding: Text about “to move”) 3. What happened (Communication: talk in the past; talk about yourself; request personal information; Grammar: perfect with “haben”; prespositions “vor”, “nach”, “seit” with Dative) 4. I work in … (Communication: talk about work and occupation; Grammar: te sentence; modal verb “müssen”; the ordinal numbers; Understanding: Text - Job advertisements) 5. Healthy and fit. (Communication: talk about body parts; doctor talks; to describe health problems; arrange an appointment; Grammar: modal verb “dürfen”; conjugation and position from verb in the sentence; Understanding: Text - To understand an article from a magazine). 6. Have a nice weekend (Communication: how to book a trip; require hotel information; to buy a train ticket; Grammar: Personal noun in nominative and acusative – preposition with accusative and dative; Understanding: Text - A trip to Berlin) 7. Repetition

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification

Learning outcomes:

Describing a city and orientation by city. Describing and renting an apartment Describe your workplace Health and fitness Make a trip

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.

Recommended reading:

Christiane Lemcke; Lutz Rohrmann; Theo Scherling, Berliner Platz 1, Deutsch im Alltag, Langenscheidtverlag, 2010., Langenscheidt, Berlin, 2009, 250.
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