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Deutsch II (GED90201)

General information

Type:

OB

Curs:

1,2,3

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

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

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. For this, acquiring a second foreign language is fundamental for students today.

Course Learning Objectives

Upon 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

Competences

11. Tenacity, persistence, constancy
4. Conveying information and/or knowledge

CONTENT

1. Beginning the course

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

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, the possessive article.
Phonetic: The consonants s, sp, st, sch.
Strategy: Write with "pre-made" linguistic components.

3. Discovering a city

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

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

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. Lower and higher education and professional training

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

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.

Methodology

Methodology (for all blocks):


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.

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 using paper/book format, journals or photocopies as well as online via the course website.
- 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.

Assessment criteria

The assessment of students' performance takes into account how well they have achieved the learning objectives. Marks range from 0 to 10.

Assessment details:

Oral mark
Individual presentation, 10%
Participation, 20%
Partial oral exam, 20%
Final exam, 50%

Written mark
Written expression, 15%
Participation, 15%
Partial exam, 20%
Final exam, 50%

Note: Attendance is compulsory. Students who do not attend a minimum of 75% of classes will not be able to sit the final exam. They will be registered as "Absent" and will thus have to re-sit the final exam.

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

Horari Ed: 1

From 2015/9/23 to 2015/12/16:
Monday and Wednesday from 15:30 to 17:30. (Except: 2015/10/12 and 2015/12/7)

From 2016/2/8 to 2016/3/16:
Monday and Wednesday from 15:30 to 17:30. (Except: 2016/2/22, 2016/2/29, 2016/3/7 and 2016/3/14)

From 2016/2/29 to 2016/3/14:
Each Monday from 15:30 to 17:30.

From 2016/3/30 to 2016/5/4:
Monday and Wednesday from 15:30 to 17:30.

Group Teacher Department

Horari Ed: 3

Thursday 2016/5/5 from 8:00 to 8:1.