Deutsch II (GED90201)

General information

Type:	OB	Curs:	2,3	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	3 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

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

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Ed: 11	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section	DEU

Group	Teacher	Department	Language

Have passed the Deutsch 1 course or have demonstrated the relevant knowledge in the course level test (validity: 12 months)

Language-learning techniques and skills.
Knowledge of English will facilitate students' learning of German.

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.

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

1. Lexical/pragmatic content and topics - Ways to spend the holidays. - Invitations and gifts. - Organising a party. - Personal dreams and reality. - A biography. - Professional training in Germany and Switzerland. - The German educational system and comparison with the Spanish model. - Universities. - Day-to-day student life. - Flats. - The city and neighbourhoods. - Freiburg: a bilingual city. - Mother tongues and foreign languages. - Bilingualism

2. Grammatical content - Verbs: present perfect (review); the verb werden (present and past); the imperfect of haben, sein, es gibt and modal verbs; reflexive and reciprocal verbs; verbs that take the dative; verbs with two objects (dative and accusative). - Nouns/pronouns/determiners: reflexive pronouns in the accusative; personal pronouns in the dative and accusative; relative pronouns in the nominative; ordinal numbers. - Adjectives: comparative and superlative (predicative function) - Prepositions: prepositions with the dative: aus, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu; prepositions with the accusative: durch, für, ohne, um; wechselpräpositionen: in, an, au. - Syntax: the main clause (review); reversal. - Adverbs: Trotzdem/Deshalb/Außerdem / Zuerst/ Dann/ Danach/ Später/ Anschließend/ Zum Schluss. - Subordinate clauses with: dass, weil, als, wenn; relative clauses.

3. Phonetical content - Prosody, intonation: accents in German sentences. - Wortakzent - consonant clusters: [ltr], [tst], [çtsv], [tsl]. - Consonants: [f] and [v]. - Neutral syllable: (-er, e). - The vowel and atonic. - The consonant: ng.

Short bibliography:
The Department's own material

Obligatory complementary material:
B. Braucek, A.Castell, Gramática básica del alemán con ejercicios A1-B1, ed. Idiomas, Hueber
Course website

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 1	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section

Group	Teacher	Department
Ed: 11	Kirsten Wernicke Lindhardt	German Section

Group	Teacher	Department