FL 3 – Pre-Intermediate German I.
- Credits: 5
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 4C
- Semester: winter
- Year: 2
- Faculty of International Relations
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Language knowledge: The aim of the course is to convey basic knowledge of a foreign language at the A2 level. After completing the course, the student understands familiar expressions from everyday life and basic phrases aimed at satisfying specific needs and can also use them.
Language skills: The student knows how to read simple texts, understands common vocabulary in topics from everyday communication, understands basic information and the main topic of written and spoken speech. He can communicate in simple situations, ask simple basic questions and answer them, he is able to talk about everyday topics, express consent and disagreement, ask for information and also provide it. In written communication he can fill in a simple form, write a short e-mail, postcard and a simple letter or a message.
Language competences: The student is open to the target culture, to people speaking the target language, within certain topics compares the German speaking environment with Slovakia.
Indicative content
Indicative content:
- Berlin. Verbs with 3rd and 4th case
- Orientation in a town. Prepositions of place
- Description of a room. Possessive pronouns in 1st and 4th case.
- Machines and equipment. Prepositions of time.
- Plans and goals in professional and private life. Modal preposition.s and the verb “wollen” .
- Parts of the body. The imperative and the verb “sollen”
- House chores. Personal pronouns in the 4th case.
- Professions, appearance and characteristics. Past tense of verbs with separable prefixes.
- Rules in transport and the environment. Verbs “can” and “must”.
- Clothes and fashion. Adjective gradation and comparison.
- The weather. Causal conjunction “denn”, prepositions with 3rd and 4th case.
- Holidays, customs. Ordinal numbers, “würde + infinitive” structure.
Support literature
Basic literature:
PUDE, A. et al. (2021) : Momente A2.1. Kursbuch. München: Hueber Verlag.
PUDE, A. et al. (2021) : Momente A2.1. Arbeitsbuchbuch. München: Hueber Verlag.
Supplementary literature:
Schritte international neu 2. München: Hueber Verlag
EVANS, S. et al. (2021): Menschen A2.1. München: Hueber Verlag.
BECKER, N., BRAUNERT, J. (2017): Alltag, Beruf & Co. 1. München. Hueber Verlag.
DOUBEK, M. et al. (2016): DaF kompakt neu A1. Stuttgart: Klett.
KUNOVSKÁ, I., MRÁZOVÁ, M., KUCHAROVÁ, J.: Teória, cvičenia a texty k nemeckej gramatike. Bratislava: Ekonóm, 2016, 195 s., ISBN 978-80-225-4253-1
Requirements to complete the course
Mid-term evaluation: 50%
Exam: 50%
Student workload
Student´s total workload: 130 hours
52 hours – participation in seminars
39 hours – preparation for mid-term evaluation
39 hours – preparation for the exam
Language whose command is required to complete the course
German
Date of approval: 08.03.2024
Date of the latest change: 23.12.2021