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Deutsch II (3º curso) (GED90201)

General information

Type:

OB

Curs:

3

Period:

S semester

ECTS Credits:

3 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language

Group Teacher Department Language

Prerequisites


Have passed the Deutsch 1 course or have demonstrated the relevant knowledge in the course level test (validity : 12 months)

Previous Knowledge

Language-learning techniques and skills.
Knowledge of English will facilitate students' learning of German.

Workload distribution

Workload distribution:

Participatory sessions: approximately 100 hours
Independent study: 30 hours
Tutorials/feedback: 2 hours

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

In an increasingly globalised legislation is not only undertaken at a regional level or solely with neighbouring countries, but on a much wider scale. As such, versatile and multilingual communication skills are necessary along with a broad and varied cultural training.

Globalisation also affects the job market, there is ever greater competition and, ESADE graduates not only compete with others from Spain but those from around the world, students who, in many cases, are multilingual and are culturally sensitive due to numerous stays abroad. For this, acquiring a second foreign language is fundamental for students today.

Course Learning Objectives

On successfully completing this course the participants will be capable of understanding commonly used phrases and expressions in their areas of experience or which are particularly relevant for them. They will know how to communicate when it comes to undertaking not very complicated day-to-day tasks and exchanging information on well known or commonly encountered issues. They will know how to describe a series of aspects of their environment as well as issues related to their immediate needs. Therefore, participants should develop learning techniques and communication strategies.

Based on these global aims, we will address a series of specific aims throughout the course linked to a number of competences related to the four basic language skills:

- Oral comprehension
- Oral expression
- Reading comprehension
- Written expression

CONTENT

1. Beginning the course

Beginning 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. Invitations

Invitations (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 city

Discovering 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 biography

Dreams 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 transport

Means 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 training

Basic 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 relations

Coexistence 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.

Relation between Activities and Contents

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Tests              
Oral and written assignments              
Work portfolio              
Participation              
Exam              

Methodology

Assessment criteria

The assessment of students¿ performance takes into account how well they have achieved the learning objectives. The mark will range from 0 to 10. How well they have achieved the competencies worked on in this course may also be considered in the 0 to 10 mark. It will however be assessed independently and marked from A to D. This mark is assigned in all the different subjects and serves to track students¿ progress throughout the programme.

Assessment consists of tests, oral and written assignments, a work portfolio, class participation and exams. To successfully pass this subjects, students must obtain a minimum mark of 5 in both the oral and written components.

N.B. Attendance is required. Students who do not participate in at least 75% of classes will not be able to sit the final and will be duly registered as ¿Absent¿ from the final. They will thus have to re-sit the final exam.


A. Listening comprehension: Partial oral tests

B. Oral expression: Partial tests and final exam

C. Reading comprehension: Partial written tests

D. Written expression: Partial tests and final exam

Assessment details:

Oral mark
Group project, 15%
Individual presentation, 15%
Participation, 20%
Partial exam, 20%
Final exam, 30%

Written mark
Written expression, 20%
Participation, 10%
Partial exam, 20%
Final exam, 50%

Students who do not:
1. Pass this course in the FIRST-SITTING due to not attending class, not completing the assignments specified or copying these will not be able to RE-SIT THE FINAL and will thus have to re-take the course, duly completing the activities specified by faculty.
2. Have the level of required competencies may move on to the next year so long as they pass this course but they will not be able to complete the final degree project until they achieve the level of competencies required for the programme.

Bibliography

Short bibliography:

The Department's own material
Course website

Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department

Timetable Ed: 1

From 2014/9/15 to 2014/12/15:
Each Monday from 15:30 to 18:30.

From 2014/10/3 to 2014/10/31:
Each Friday from 15:30 to 18:30. (Except: 2014/10/10 and 2014/10/24)

From 2015/2/2 to 2015/5/11:
Each Monday from 15:30 to 18:30.

From 2015/2/6 to 2015/3/6:
Each Friday from 15:30 to 18:30. (Except: 2015/2/13 and 2015/2/27)

Group Teacher Department

Timetable Ed: 3

Tuesday 2014/11/4 from 8:00 to 8:1.