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Deutsch 2 (BBA90101)

General information

Type:

OP

Curs:

1,2

Period:

S semester

ECTS Credits:

4 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language
Ed: 1 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section DEU

Group Teacher Department Language
Ed: 10 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section DEU

Group Teacher Department Language
Ed: 2 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section DEU

Group Teacher Department Language
Ed: 3 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section DEU

Group Teacher Department Language
Ed: 4 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section DEU

Prerequisites


Students must have passed Deutsch 1 or demonstrate the corresponding level of knowledge through a level test (valid for 12 months).

Previous Knowledge

Language-learning skills and knowledge of corresponding techniques.
Knowledge of English will make it easier to learn German.

Workload distribution

Workload distribution:

Participatory sessions: 75 hours
Independent study: 25 hours

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

In an increasingly globalised world, business is not only undertaken at a regional level or with a neighbouring country, but on a far wider scale. As such, versatile and multilingual communication skills are necessary along with a broad and varied cultural background.

Globalisation also affects the job market, and ESADE graduates not only compete with others from Spain but those from around the world, students who are multilingual in many cases and culturally aware due to numerous stays abroad.

At ESADE students have the opportunity to achieve sufficient mastery of a third language to be able to complete their university studies abroad (a German-speaking country) and take advantage of international job opportunities.

Deutsche 2 is the second of six German language courses designed to achieve these ends.

Course Learning Objectives

Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to react appropriately in routine situations, to express their opinions on topics addressed in class and give prepared presentations on simple topics. They will also be capable of writing simple texts on topics raised. In terms of comprehension, they will be able to extract concrete information from different types of oral and written texts.

To achieve these objectives, students will develop the appropriate learning techniques and communication strategies.

General objectives:
- Develop learning techniques and communication strategies.
- Use prior experience and knowledge, both linguistic and socio-cultural, to facilitate their learning.
- Take advantage of situations inside and outside of class to be in touch with the language they're learning.
- Develop the necessary strategies to evaluate their own learning process.
- Develop a positive and open attitude towards cultures they're not familiar with.

Based on these overall objectives, we will address a series of specific objectives linked to specific skills:

A. Oral comprehension:
1) Understand brief, clear and simple conversations and interviews on unknown topics.
2) Understand others in simple conversations on topics addressed in class.


B. Oral expression:
1) Participate in in-class communication situations.
2) Participate in short conversations on diverse topics they¿re familiar with. 3) Give short presentations on topics prepared beforehand.
4) Make and react to proposals.
5) Express tastes and preferences.
6) Express feelings.
7) Present logical arguments.
8) Compare.

C. Reading comprehension:
1) Understand the main ideas in short texts of different types.
2) Extract key information from authentic texts about day-to-day life to find the necessary information to carry out assignments in class.
3) Understand anecdotes and biographies.


D. Written expression:
1) Write simple structured texts based on known subjects (e.g., activities, people, places, etc.), using simple yet cohesive phrases.
2) Interact with others via written texts: write an invitation, accept/reject an invitation in writing.
3) Tell a story.


Lexical skills:
- Expand students¿ repertoire of basic vocabulary acquired in Deutsch 1.
- Develop vocabulary acquisition techniques and memorise common expressions found in typical communication scenarios.

Grammatical skills:
- Express themselves using the appropriate grammatical structures to make themselves understood in basic situations.
- Be familiar with different structures of German syntax.

Semantic skills:
- Organise meanings and structure ideas.

Phonological skills:
- Pronounce relatively clearly.
- Acquire prosody in German.
- Improve phonetics.

Spelling skills:
- Master spelling of basic vocabulary.
- Become familiar with basic rules of German spelling.

Competences

1. Knowledge acquisition, comprehension and structuring
14. Tenacity, persistence, constancy

Relation between Activities and Competences

1 14
Tests    
Oral and written assignments    
Journal    
Participation    
Exams    

CONTENT

1. Lexical/pragmatic content and class topics:

Holidays/vacation at home or travelling. Invite and give gifts. A party. Personal dreams and reality. A biography. Professional training in Germany and Switzerland. The German educational system; comparison to Spain's. University. Students' daily lives. Flats. Cities and neighbourhoods. Living in Berna, Fribourg/Freiburg, a bilingual city. Mother tongues and foreign languages.

2. Grammatical content:

Verbs: Past perfect (review); the verb werden (present and past); preterite imperfect of haben, sein, es gibt and modal verbs; reflexive and reciprocal verbs; verbs governing the dative; verbs with two objects (dative, accusative).
Nouns/pronouns/determinants: reflexive pronouns sin the accusative; personal pronouns in the dative and accusative; relative pronouns in the nominative and accusative.
Ordinal numbers
Adjectives: attributive adjectives; adjective declination in the nominative, accusative and dative; comparative and superlative (only in predicative function(.
Prepositions: prepositions with the dative (aus, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu) and with the accusative (durch, für, gegen, ohne, um - Wechselpräpositionen: in, an, auf).
Syntax: main clause (review); inversion.
Adverbs: trotzdem/Deshalb/Außerdem / Zuerst/ Dann/ Danach/ Später/ Anschließend/ Zum Schluss.
Subordinate clauses with dass, weil, obwohl, als, wenn, relative clauses.

3. Phonetics:

Prosody, intonation. Stress in German sentences. Wortakzent consonant groups: [ltr], [tst], [çtsv], [tsl]. Consonant [f] and [v]. Neutral syllable (-er, -e). The unstressed e. Consonants ng.

Relation between Activities and Contents

1 2 3
Tests      
Oral and written assignments      
Journal      
Participation      
Exams      

Methodology

Assessment criteria

Assessment details:
Students' marks consist of an oral component (50%) and a written component (50%). Students must successfully pass both components to pass the course.

The oral component mark consists of oral comprehension, oral participation in class, the project and oral final exam. The written component mark comprises written expression, written participation, the mid-term exam and final written exam.

Attending class is obligatory. Students who do not participate in at least 75% of classes will not be able to sit the final exam and will be registered as Absent. They will then have to re-sit the final.

Bibliography

Short bibliography:

Department's own material
Course website
Brigitte Braucek, Andreu Castell: Gramática básica del alemán con ejercicios, A1-B1, ed. idiomas, Hueber

Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department
Ed: 1 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section

Timetable Ed: 1

From 2017/9/5 to 2017/11/23:
Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 to 12:00. (Except: 2017/10/12, 2017/10/17 and 2017/10/19)

From 2018/1/9 to 2018/1/19:
Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 to 12:00.
Each Friday from 12:30 to 14:30. (Except: 2018/1/12)

Group Teacher Department
Ed: 10 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section

Timetable Ed: 10

From 2018/6/4 to 2018/6/22:
From Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 14:30.

Tuesday 2018/7/17 from 10:00 to 12:00.

Group Teacher Department
Ed: 2 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section

Timetable Ed: 2

From 2017/9/5 to 2017/11/23:
Tuesday and Thursday from 15:00 to 18:00. (Except: 2017/10/12, 2017/10/17 and 2017/10/19)

From 2018/1/9 to 2018/1/19:
Each Friday from 12:30 to 14:30. (Except: 2018/1/12)
Tuesday and Thursday from 15:00 to 18:00.

Group Teacher Department
Ed: 3 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section

Timetable Ed: 3

From 2018/1/23 to 2018/5/3:
Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 to 12:00. (Except: 2018/3/13, 2018/3/15, 2018/3/27, 2018/3/29 and 2018/5/1)

Tuesday 2018/5/8 from 10:00 to 12:00.

Group Teacher Department
Ed: 4 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section

Timetable Ed: 4

From 2018/1/23 to 2018/5/3:
Tuesday and Thursday from 15:00 to 18:00. (Except: 2018/3/13, 2018/3/15, 2018/3/27, 2018/3/29 and 2018/5/1)

Tuesday 2018/5/8 from 10:00 to 12:00.