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Deutsch 1 (18BBA90100)

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


None. Deutsch 1 is for beginners without any prior knowledge.

Previous Knowledge


Knowledge of language learning techniques and competencies.
Knowledge of English makes learning English easier.

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.

Deutsch 1 is the first of six courses in German to achieve these aims.

Course Learning Objectives

Learning objectives

Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to understand and use very frequent expressions used every day as well as sentences to satisfy immediate needs. They can present themselves and others, ask for and give basic personal information, talk about daily life and their environment and also express their point of view in sample fashion regarding topics they are familiar with. They can also interact on an elementary level so long as the other speaks slowly and clearly and is willing to collaborate.

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 the essence of brief messages which are simple and clearly stated in standard language and contextualised regarding topics they are familiar with.
2) Understand others in simple conversations on topics related to day-to-day life.
3) Understand the information contained (overall or specific) of audio texts related to daily life (explanations, interviews, advertising, reports, etc.). For this students have to develop the necessary skills to capture the general meaning of an audio text and/or locate specific information.


B. Oral expression:
1) Participate in daily communication situations (in stores, offices, etc.). Ask for and give simple information about daily life and habitual situations, using standard expressions.
2) Participate in short conversations on diverse topics they¿re familiar with.
3) Give short presentations on topics prepared beforehand. For this they have to learn basic compensation strategies (to compensate linguistic gaps) and communication strategies: indicate to the other that they have problems understanding them, ask them to repeat, etc.
4) Make and react to proposals.

C. Reading comprehension:
1) Understand the main ideas in short texts of different types (press articles, letters, anecdotes, etc.) with the help of visual and/or contextual support.
2) Extract key information from authentic texts about day-to-day life. For this they need to develop learning comprehension strategies: understand the overall meaning of a text or put it within its context, locate specific information, identify how information is structured to be able to take notes and take advantage of a text as a learning tool.

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. For this they need to develop basic compensation strategies (to fill linguistic gaps) as well as appropriate strategies for different communication goals.

To achieve all these objectives, students need to acquire the following linguistic competencies.

Lexical skills:
- Expand students' repertoire of basic vocabulary.
- 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 despite having few linguistic resources.

Phonological skills:
- Pronounce relatively clearly.
- Acquire intonation and prosody in German.

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

Competences

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

Relation between Activities and Competences

14 1
Tests    
Oral and written assignments    
Journals    
Participation    
Written exams and tests    

CONTENT

1. Lexical content/topics

First contact: greetings, presentation, affirmation and negation. Name, country of origin, place of residence. Information about the person: age, hobbies, profession. Family, friends, work colleagues, classmates. Maps and getting around cities, reserving a hotel. The city, buildings, shops, means of transportation. Free-time activities. Customs and preferences (food and activities). Dates and get-togethers. In a bar: ordering and paying. At the market: buying food. Food and drinks. A party in German class. Daily activities. Time, parts of the day, days of the week, months and seasons. Last weekend: activities. An interview about work and studies. Holidays: a trip, places, activities before and after travelling, hotel. A day trip: preparations and the route.

2. Grammar

Nouns: gender, plurals, article declination: nominative, accusative and dative; compound nouns (most common composition models and derivations).
Determinates: determinate articles, der, das, die (nominative, accusative, dative); indeterminate article ein, eine (nominative, accusative, dative); possessive article: dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer, Ihr (nominative); quantifiers: viel, sehr; cardinal numbers.
Pronouns: personal pronouns in the nominative and accusative; dative of the 1st and 2nd person singular; interrogative pronouns: wer, was, wo, wohin, woher, warum, wann, wie, wie viel, wie lange, wie spät, wie alt, wen; impersonal pronoun: man.
Verbs: regular verbs in the present and past (pret. perfect); irregular verbs (with changes in vowel) in the present and past (pret. perfect); the verb "wissen" in the present and past (pret. perfect); the auxiliary verbs haben and sein and the past (pret. perfect and pret. imperfect); modal verbs: mögen, müssen, wollen, können, dürfen (present, basic meanings); verbs with prefixes in the present and past (pret. perfect); verbs with the dative: schmecken in the present and past (pret. perfect).
Prepositions according to rection: prepositions with dative: aus, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu; prepositions with accusative: bis, für, ohne, gegen, um; according to function: place (aus, bei, in, an, auf de tiempo: nach, seit, um, in, an, vor); direction (nach, zu); expression (ins Kino, ans Meer).
Adverbs: frequency (immer, oft, meistens, manchmal, selten, nie); place (links, rechts, oben, unten, hier, da, dort); time (heute, morgen, gestern, jetzt, später, bald, früher - de orden: zuerst, dann, danach, zum Schluss); manner (sehr, gern, fast); adverb phrases: nächste Woche, nächsten Monat, nächstes Jahr etc.; cause (deshalb).
Conjunctions: coordinate conjunctions: und, oder, aber, sondern, denn.
Sentences: affirmative statements; verb position; inversion; negation; complete question; partial question.

3. Spelling

The German alphabet. The use of capital letters in German. Basic spelling rules: double consonants, double vowels, Dehnungs-E, Dehnungs-H etc.

4. Phonetics

Introduction to German vowel sounds. Consonant sounds and phonemes. Some differences compared to Spanish and Catalan: vocalisation of the final r; Auslautverhärtung of the consonants, b, d, g, s and v; special sounds (compared to Spanish/Catalan): [z] , [s] and [t's]. Prosody, Wortakzent intonation: simple words, compound words, derived words.

Methodology

Assessment criteria

Assessment for this course takes into account how well students achieve the objectives established for this course. Marks will range from 0 to 10. Information regarding the development of the competencies worked on in the course may also be taken into account in the mark from 0 to 10. They will also be reflected in an independent indicator from A to D. This indicator will be analysed in the different courses and will serve to monitor each student's progress throughout the programme.

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:
Dengler, P. Rusch, H. Schmitz, T. Sieber: Netzwerk A1.1, ed. Klett-Langenscheidt, München 2013, ISBN: 978-3-12-606131-5

Additional bibliography:
B. Braucek, A.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 2018/9/4 to 2018/11/29:
Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 to 12:00. (Except: 2018/9/11, 2018/10/16, 2018/10/18, 2018/10/23 and 2018/11/1)

From 2019/1/8 to 2019/1/17:
Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 to 12:00.

Group Teacher Department
Ed: 10 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section

Timetable Ed: 10

From 2019/6/3 to 2019/6/19:
From Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 15:00. (Except: 2019/6/10 and 2019/6/19)
Each Wednesday from 9:00 to 14:30. (Except: 2019/6/5 and 2019/6/12)

From 2019/6/20 to 2019/6/21:
From Thursday to Friday from 9:00 to 14:30.

Saturday 2019/7/13 from 10:30 to 13:00.

Group Teacher Department
Ed: 2 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section

Timetable Ed: 2

From 2018/9/4 to 2018/11/29:
Tuesday and Thursday from 15:00 to 18:00. (Except: 2018/9/11, 2018/10/16, 2018/10/18, 2018/10/23 and 2018/11/1)

From 2019/1/8 to 2019/1/17:
Tuesday and Thursday from 15:00 to 18:00.

Group Teacher Department
Ed: 3 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section

Timetable Ed: 3

From 2019/1/21 to 2019/4/24:
Monday and Wednesday from 10:00 to 13:00. (Except: 2019/3/18, 2019/3/20, 2019/4/15, 2019/4/17 and 2019/4/22)

From 2019/4/29 to 2019/5/6:
Each Monday from 10:00 to 13:00.

Group Teacher Department
Ed: 4 Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt German Section

Timetable Ed: 4

From 2019/1/21 to 2019/4/24:
Monday and Wednesday from 15:00 to 18:00. (Except: 2019/3/18, 2019/3/20, 2019/4/15, 2019/4/17 and 2019/4/22)

From 2019/4/29 to 2019/5/6:
Each Monday from 15:00 to 18:00.