Deutsch I (GED90100)

General information

Type:	OP	Curs:	1,2	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	3 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language

Group	Teacher	Department	Language

None. Deutsch 1 is a course for beginners with no prior knowledge.

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

Workload distribution:

Participatory sessions: approximately 100 hours
Independent study: 30 hours

In an increasingly globalised world, 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.

At ESADE students have the opportunity to learn a second foreign language, helping to open doors both academically and in the professional world.

Upon successfully completing this course, students should be able to understand and use common expressions as well as simple phrases to satisfy their immediate needs. They can also introduce themselves and others, ask for and give personal information about daily life and their surroundings as well as express their views on topics they are familiar. They can interact with others on a basic level so long as the other speaks slowly and clearly and is willing to cooperate.

To achieve these goals, participants have to develop learning techniques and communication strategies.

Based on the above global objectives, this course will also strive to develop the following competencies:

A. Oral comprehension:
1) Understand simple conversations
2) Understand information (overall or specific) in audio texts extracted from daily situations (explanations, interviews, advertising, reports, etc.)
To achieve these, students will need to develop the necessary skills to capture the general sense of an audio text and/or identify specific information.

B. Oral expression:
1) Ask for and give simple information about daily life and habitual situations, using the most common expressions.
2) Participate in conversations on different topics they are familiar with.
To achieve these, students need to learn basic compensation strategies to fill linguistic gaps and develop communication strategies: indicate problems understanding the other, asking them to repeat, etc.

C. Reading comprehension:
1) Understand simple or simplified texts (press articles, letters, anecdotes, etc.)
2) Understand real texts extracted from daily life (understand general ideas or specific details)
To achieve these, students need to develop the necessary skills to capture the general sense of a text, identify specific information and how information is structured to be able to take notes and use texts as a valuable learning tool.

D. Written expression:
1) Write simple and structured texts on topics they are familiar with (e.g., activities, people, places, etc.)
2) Carry out written interactions with others: write simple letters or postcards, take notes, write e-mails, ask for and give information, etc.
To achieve these, students need to acquire basic compensation strategies to fill linguistic gaps as well as develop the appropriate communication strategies depending on the respective objectives.

To meet all these objectives, students have to acquire the linguistic skills corresponding to this level:

Lexical: Master a repertoire of basic vocabulary: develop vocabulary acquisition systems and memorise the most common expressions in typical situations.
Grammatical: Express themselves sufficiently well to make themselves understood in basic, day-to-day situations.
Semantic: Organise meanings and structure ideas despite having few linguistic resources.
Phonetic: Pronounce as clearly as possible
Spelling: Master basic spelling rules.

11. Tenacity, persistence, constancy

4. Conveying information and/or knowledge

1. People, languages, countries and families Content: First contact with others. Greetings and introductions. Ask others for their names, countries of origin, place of residence, etc. Give information about oneself. Talk about their families and languages they speak. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: information about people (work and families). Countries, languages. Numbers. Morphology: derivation with ¿-in¿. Grammatical: Expository phrases, interrogatives (with and without pronouns), imperatives. Personal pronouns. Conjugation of regular verbs. Verbs with a change in vowel. Negation with ¿nicht¿. Use of ¿doch¿ in response to a negative question. Phonetic: Alphabet, stress, prosody. Strategies: Look for and classify information.

2. Visiting a new city Content: Arriving, getting information, and finding your way around. At the hotel: checking in. In the city: how to get somewhere. A day in Essen, Germany: exchange information. Introduce another city. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: maps and getting around cities, hotel reservations. Grammatical: articles and nouns; definite, nominative and accusative articles. Decisive questions. Syntax: subject and verb. Present tense conjugation Phonetic: rhythm, stress and intonation. Pronunciation of difficult words. Strategy: communication strategies if unable to understand the other: asking them to repeat/clarify. Morphology: identify internationalisms.

3. Daily life and free time Content: Leisure activities. Readings: film listings ¿ understand information about the day, time, month, etc. Talk about hobbies and skills. Customs and preferences (food, activities). Table talk. Arranging to meet up with someone. Proposing something, reacting to propositions. Express tastes and opinions. Linguistic competencies: months, days of the week, dates, time. Leisure activities. Morphology: compound nouns (noun + noun). Grammatical: modal verbs ¿können¿ and ¿mögen¿. Verbal parenthesis. Inversion in expository statements. Temporal prepositions: ¿am¿ and ¿um¿ Phonetic: long and short vowels. Talking and memorising dialogues Strategy: understand texts through key questions.

4. Food and shopping Content: In a café/bar: get information, order something and pay. At the market: make different purchases. Shopping habits and types: compare and evaluate. Invite someone to a party. Meet up with someone. Talk about food, express likes and preferences. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: Food and drinks. Grammatical: model verbs ¿können¿, ¿müssen¿, ¿wollen" and ¿mögen¿: meaning, conjugation in the present indicative and syntax. Syntax: subject/verb inversion. Phonetic: long and short vowels. Strategy: begin active listening techniques, take notes.

5. A typical day: present and past Content: Describe habitual day-to-day activities throughout the day. Talk about activities in the past. Understand announcements (e.g., at the train station). Talk about holidays and trips. Interview others, describe activities at work. Free time: describe leisure activities Linguistic competencies Lexical: Day-to-day activities, months, seasons. Holidays and trips: places, means of transportation, activities before and after trips. Hotels. Grammatical: verbs with separable and inseparable prefixes and their syntactic traits. Temporal prepositions: ¿von-bis¿, ¿ab¿ and ¿im¿. Simple past. Phonetic: long and short vowels. Reading a text. Difficult words. Strategy: to become more confident and fluid, carry out short dialogues using memorised elements.

6. A trip north Content: holidays in the North Sea. Describe a trip. An excursion: describe the route and how to get somewhere. Describe past events. Conversations in the hotel; asking for help. Planning a trip. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: Holidays and trips: places, means of transportation, activities before and after trips, hotel. Grammatical: simple past (forms, use and syntax), accusative (personal pronouns). Phonetic: unstressed vowels, the consonant r, prosody. Strategy: create and use a mini-glossary

7. Homes and the city Content: Asking for directions and describing routes. Reading: real estate adds. Reading: texts on cities. Describing places. Evaluating them. Writing an e-mail. Linguistic competencies: Lexical: places and institutions in cities. Parts of a home. Type of residence. Furniture. Expressions and adjectives to describe likes/dislikes. Grammatical: dative (articles and personal pronouns). Local prepositions in the dative. Possessive articles. Verbs in the dative. Phonetic: long and short vowels. Strategy: begin active listening techniques. Take notes when listening and focus oral comprehension on key information.

Methodology

Participatory sessions:
- In-class sessions consist of small groups based on students¿ active participation.
- Exercises to understand texts (written, audio and audiovisual).
-Oral and written exercises to develop specific skills and assimilate grammatical structures and vocabulary
-Role-playing activities to resolve problems, exchange of information between participants, complete written assignments individually or in groups.
-Explanations by faculty to present new structures or clarify any doubts.
-Occasional use of the computer room for multimedia learning activities or to search for information on internet.

Independent study:
Successfully completing this course requires students to regularly complete assignments outside of class to help them to assimilate the course content:
-Prior preparation of new structures/topics
-Exercises to encourage students¿ assimilation of the course content
- Phonetic exercises with CD
- Regular written assignments to be kept in a journal
- Preparation of short presentations
- Independent study and practice of both vocabulary and grammatical structures.
- Studying for tests/exams.

Tutorials/feedback:
-Faculty will provide feedback thoughout the course on students' progress.

Short bibliography:

Müller et al, Optimal A1, Lehrbuch, Arbeitsbuch, Intensivtrainer, ed. Langenscheidt

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