Deutsch 4 (18BBA90103)

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

Group	Teacher	Department	Language

Group	Teacher	Department	Language

Group	Teacher	Department	Language

Students must have passed Deutsch 3 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.

Acquiring a third language will also allow students to undertake their university education in a foreign country (a country in which it is spoken). With regard to the job market, having a foreign language such as German allows students to present themselves to job openings in German-speaking companies and thus be able to find work in any part of the world.

Deutsch 4 is the fourth of 6 courses in German designed to meet these ends. Upon successfully completing this course students will have the equivalent B1 level within the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for languages.

General learning objectives for this course:

Consolidate and expand students' knowledge to finalise grammar acquisition and vocabulary for the B1 level:

Comprehension:
1. Quickly find relevant details in texts.
2. Deduce vocabulary through context.
3. Understand news programmes and reports when speech is relatively clear.

Expression:
1. Write clear texts about the topics addressed in class.
2. Be capable of summarising written and oral texts.

Specific objectives:

- Make a decision. Reach an agreement. Argue about the decision made.
- Make a formal group presentation.
- Make an individual presentation.
- Present a company as a group.
- Understand relevant information.
- Transmit relevant information.
- Express an opinion.
- Understand and summarise others¿ opinions.
- Debate.
- Argue a point of view.
- Convince others.
- Define problems and propose and choose solutions.
- Understand texts with specialised vocabulary.
- Organise a group event: prepare and present.
- Present and compare food-related customs and analyse cultural differences.
- Analyse new food trends.
- Express personal tastes.
- Understand an authentic audio text.

4. Conveying information and/or knowledge

1. Lexical content/topics The fashion industry. The importance of appearance. People and companies linked to the world of fashion. Fashion and sustainability. The company: start-ups. The company: industries, departments, tasks and responsibilities. Presenting a company. Event organisation. The Event Manager position. Food. Food-related habits (comparison). Food and society. New trends in the food industry. B1 certificate: Sample exam.

2. Grammatical content Verbs: passive voice (present, past, present with a modal verb); verbs with prepositional objects; their substitution with and without a subordinate clause; the modal verb "sollen"; the past perfect. Nouns and pronouns. Relative subordinate clauses in the nominative, accusative, dative, with prepositions. Prepositions: prepositions with genitive: wegen, trotz, während Syntaxis: conjunctional temporal adverbs, causal and concessive (vorher, davor, nachher, danach, seitdem, währenddessen, deshalb, darum, deswegen, aus diesem Grund, trotzdem) Subordinate conjunctions (als, wenn, bevor, während, seit(dem), bis, weil, da, obwohl) Two-part connectors: entweder - oder, weder - noch, nicht nur- sondern auch, einerseits - andererseits Review of infinitive statement structures

Participatory sessions:
- Classes consist of small groups and are based on students¿ active participation.
- Practice text comprehension, both written texts as well as audio and audiovisual material.
- Oral and written exercises to develop concrete skills or assimilate structures and vocabulary.
- Simulation of communicative situations, exchanging information, debates, resolving written texts individually or in groups.
- Explanation of new structures or consulting with faculty to resolve doubts.
- 5 to 10-minute presentations prepared beforehand on a subject discussed in class.

Independent study:
The course requires students to regularly work outside the class to help them to assimilate the material:
- Prepare new structures/subjects before class.
- Exercises to favour assimilation.
- Regular written assignments kept in a journal.
- Preparation of presentations.
- Independent study and practice on vocabulary and grammatical structures.
- Study for exams.
- Regular reading and oral comprehension assignments (Lesedossier, Hördossier)

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

Short bibliography:


The Department's own material
Course website
Brigitte Braucek, Andreu 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

Group	Teacher	Department

Group	Teacher	Department

Group	Teacher	Department