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3 | Period: |
S semester |
ECTS Credits: |
3 ECTS |
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1. Beginning the courseBeginning the course (9 hours in class, 4 hours of independent study)Content: General review. Tell a story. Understand anecdotes. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: Various topics. Grammatical: Past perfect (review), local prepositions (review), connectors with and without inversion (review). Phonetic: Prosody. Strategy: Active listening. |
2. InvitationsInvitations (10 hours in class, 4 hours of independent study)Content: Invite friends to a party. Organise parties, give gifts. Write an invitation. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: Food, drinks, parties, gifts. Grammatical: Verbs with two objects, personal pronouns in dative, possessive article. Phonetic: The consonants s, sp, st, sch. Strategy: Write with ¿pre-made¿ linguistic components. |
3. Discovering a cityDiscovering a city (15 hours in class, 4 hours of independent study)Content: Discover the bilingual city of Freiburg/Fribourg. Compare Freiburg to other bilingual cities. Present a bilingual city. Describe your own city. Interview someone on language use. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: The city. Learning/acquiring languages. Grammatical: Past perfect (review), local prepositions (review), connectors with and without inversion (review) Phonetic: Prosody. Strategy: Define objectives for students¿ own learning process to better organise how they study. Recognise compound words as a source of vocabulary. |
4. Dreams and reality, a biographyDreams and reality, a biography (18 hours in class, 3 hours of independent study)Content: Talk about a person¿s dreams and compare them to reality. Suppositions. Describe a person¿s life. Reasoning. Explain people¿s behaviour. Give reasons. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: Temporal indicators. Parts of a CV. Grammatical: Temporal subordinate phrases, causal and concessive phrases. The conjunctions wenn, weil, obwohl and dass. The adverbs deshalb and trotzdem. The verb werden. Demonstrative determinants. Prepositions and temporal adverbs (review). Phonetic: Accents in phrases. Sets of consonants. Strategy: Organise vocabulary by topic. Selective oral comprehension. |
5. Means of transportMeans of transport (12 hours in class, 3 hours of independent study)Content: Compare different transportation options. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of each. Argue and express personal opinions. Write an e-mail based on a template. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: Means of transport, travel/move about. Grammatical: Comparative and superlative adjectives (predicative); causality: weil/denn/deshalb Phonetic: Prosody in sentences consisting of an independent clause and a subordinate clause; prosody in imperatives and questions. Strategy: Organise linguistic structures: ask for/give information. Identify structures in written texts. |
6. Basic schooling and university and professional trainingBasic schooling and university and professional training (18 hours in class, 4 hours of independent study)Content: The German educational system. Weigh the advantages and disadvantages. Compare with the Spanish system. Describe one¿s own training. Studying and working. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: Activities at school and university, with emphasis on false cognates (studieren, Student, Lehrer, Professor, etc.). Grammatical: Decline adjectives. Phonetic: The consonants f/ff/ph/v/w Strategy: Methods to direct attention when attempting to understand an audio text. Global and selective oral comprehension. |
7. Coexistence and personal relationsCoexistence and personal relations (18 hours in class, 3 hours of independent study)Contents: Describe different types of coexistence. Compare current family models. Describe one¿s own family. Describe a person. Describe and compare personal relations. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: The family, friends, acquaintances, events in personal lives. Grammatical: Constructions with the infinitive. Relative subordinates (relative pronoun in nominative and accusative). Articles and the indefinite pronouns jede, beide, alle, viele. Reflexive verbs. Phonetic: Nasal sounds ng and nk. Strategy: Active listening in a conversation. Communication strategies. |
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