Overview
Lecturer
Valentin Todescu
Seminar tutor
Valentin Todescu
Type of course
Elective (1 of 3)
Language of instruction
German
Erasmus language
English
Domain
History
Field of study
History
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification
Entry requirements
The lessons from the first semester.
Aims
It guides the student in building the relevant grammatical structures and comunicative strategies.
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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
Learning outcomes
Describing a city and orientation by city.
Describing and renting an apartment
Describe your workplace
Health and fitness
Make a trip
Assessment
Written paper – interpretative essay – 60%; continuous assessment – 40%.
Recommended reading
Berliner Platz 1, Deutsch im Alltag, Langenscheidtverlag, 2010.
Christiane Lemcke; Lutz Rohrmann; Theo Scherling
Langenscheidt, Berlin, 2009 · 250
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