Deutsch 3 (18BBA90102)

General information

Type:	OP	Curs:	2,3	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

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Ed: 5	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section	DEU

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Ed: 6	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section	DEU

Group	Teacher	Department	Language

Group	Teacher	Department	Language

Students must have passed Deutsch 2 or demonstrate the corresponding level of knowledge through a level test (valid for 12 months).

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

Workload distribution:

Participatory sessions: 75 hours
Independent study: 25 hours

In an increasingly globalised world business 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 acquire a third language, allowing them to undertake a part of their university education in a foreign country (a country in which that language is spoken) or take advantage of job opportunities around the world.

Deutsch 3 is the third of 6 courses in German designed to meet these ends.

General learning objectives for this course

Acquire a solid knowledge of the language:

Comprehension:
1. Understand concrete information regarding daily or work-related topics and identify overall content as well as some specific details.
2. Understand the primary information contained in audio or audio-visual material, e.g., televised news programmes or reports when these are relatively slow and clear.
3. Read and satisfactorily understand texts on concrete events dealing with familiar topics or those related to students' specialisation

Expression:
1. Provide a reasonably fluid description of topics students are familiar with, presenting a linear sequence of the different elements.
2. Develop structured arguments.
3. Explain points of view on a given subject, contrasting the advantages and disadvantages.
4. Be capable of correcting errors when these are pointed out.

Specific objectives:

- Describe natural/urban landscape elements.
- Indicate place and directions.
- Talk about the weather.
- Make a decision. Reach an agreement. Argue about the made.
- Describe typical tasks in a company.
- Describe a work schedule. Weigh the pros and cons.
- Describe professions, tasks and responsibilities.
- Make a formal group presentation.
- Understand relevant information.
- Transmit relevant information.
- Express intent.
- Express an unreal hypothesis.
- Express an unreal desire.
- Give advice.
- Give orders and make requests.
- Express an opinion.
- Understand and summarise others¿ opinions.
- Debate.
- Present logical arguments.
- Convince.
- Compare cities from different points of view.
- Assess the quality of life in big cities.
- Define problems, and propose and choose solutions.
- Plan a school trip to a German-speaking city.
- Explain family relations. Describe and compare personal relations.
- Describe different living arrangements.
- Compare today¿s different family models.
- Describe their own families. Describe a person.
- Write a biography.

4. Conveying information and/or knowledge

1. Lexical content/topics Landscapes. The weather. Holidays. Living with others and personal relations. Friends and acquaintances. Personal life events. The family and relations between family members. Traditional families and new family models. Small firms: employee tasks. Work schedules. Professions, their tasks and responsibilities. The "Fremde" and "Heimat" concepts. Working abroad. Quality of life in a big city, a small town and a small city. End of school year trip. German-speaking cities: Vienna and Berlin. The city as a place to live and as a tourist destination.

2. Grammatical content Verbs: Preterite perfect (review); preterite imperfect of regular and irregular verbs; Konjunktiv II in the present; verbs with prepositional objects; imperative. Prepositions: Local and temporal prepositions (review) Position verbs: legen, liegen, stellen, stehen, setzen, sitzen Noun/pronoun/adjective: Adjective declination (review); the superlative as an attribute; the genitive Syntax: Subordinate clauses with wenn, als, damit, weil, da, obwohl, dass Indirect questions Relative phrases (nominative, accusative, wo) Infinitive phrases as subjects and objects; infinitive phrases (purpose) Review and further exploration of causal adverbs (deshalb, darum, daher, deswegen, aus diesem Grund) and concessive adverbs (trotzdem, allerdings, dennoch).

Participatory sessions:
- These will consist of small groups and active participation by all participants.
- Practice understanding written and audiovisual texts.
- Exercises to develop concrete skills or to assimilate structures and vocabulary (oral and written).
- Simulation of different communication scenarios, exchanging information with others, debates, individual written exercises or in groups.
- Explanation of new structures or help from faculty to resolve problems or doubts.
- 5 to 10-minute presentations prepared beforehand on a given course topic.


Independent study:
This course requires students to habitually carry out work outside of class to assimilate the material:
- Prepare new structures/topics before class
- Exercises to facilitate assimilation
- Regular written homework to be kept in a portfolio
- Prepare presentations
- Independent study and practice with vocabulary and grammatical structures
- Prepare for exams
- Regular reading and listening comprehension exercises (Lesedossier, Hördossier)

Tutorials/feedback:
- Feedback throughout the course on students¿ progress.

Short bibliography:

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

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 1	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 10	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 2	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 3	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 4	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 5	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 6	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section

Group	Teacher	Department

Group	Teacher	Department