German III (Foreign Languages III)

Base Knowledge

It is recommended that the student has completed level A1 or has successfully finished subjects German I and II.

Teaching Methodologies

Several methodologies will be put to use, such as games, spontaneous activities to speak and write, role-play situations, presentations, in-class discussions, among others.

Learning Results

In this semester students should improve on their language skills and enlarge the subjects about which they can talk and/or write.

Among other skills, students should be able to: invite, plan small events, understand and answer to ads, have complex conversations on the phone, ask for information at a hospital, stores or a bank, have conversations with healthcare professionals.

Program

Every class will be taught in German. Portuguese or English may be spoken to clarify any questions/tasks.

German III corresponds to the first half of the A2 level. By the end of German IV students will have completed A2.

Depending on the students’ performance, the majority or all of the following topics will be taught:

    Activities after school
    Training/studies
    Professions
    Understanding and writing a language learning biography
    Understanding, creating and presenting short portraits
    Description of location and neighborhood
    Describing houses and apartments
    Describe your own neighborhood
    Make structured notes on apartment ads
    Write apartment/room advertisement
    Follow a conversation with the landlord when viewing an apartment
    Understand advertising brochures
    Take information from announcements in shopping centers
    Follow and conduct counseling interview
    Follow interviews about educational paths
    Present own educational path and create course statistics
    Extract information from a text and diagram about the school system in Germany
    Compare the school system in your home country and Germany

Grammar:

    Perfect tense: regular, irregular, mixed verbs (repetition)
    Präteritum: haben, sein (repetition) and modal verbs
    Perfekt with haben and sein (repetition)
    Adjective declension
    Dative and verbs with dative suffix (repetition)
    Verbs with dative and accusative affixes
    polite requests, questions, wishes with the Konjunktiv II of können, werden (Wdh.); haben, sein
    causal subordinate clauses: justification with weil (repetition) and da
    conditional subordinate clauses: State conditions with wenn
    subordinate clauses with dass

Curricular Unit Teachers

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

For levels III and IV the following book will be necessary:

Kurs DaF A2 – Hybride Ausgabe allango
Deutsch für Studium und Beruf
Kurs- und Übungsbuch mit Audios und Videos inklusive Lizenzschlüssel allango (24 Monate)

192 Seiten

ISBN 978-3-12-676840-5