Course detail

German for Beginners 2/2

FIT-JN1Acad. year: 2010/2011

The course is for beginners in German. Students are introduced to the language with the emphasis on listening and acquiring basic grammar skills together with fast and direct mastering of communicative skills in everyday situations.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

General understanding based on reading and listening comprehension. Ability to respond adequately incommon situations, to inform, ask questions, ask for information, be able to order or ban.

Prerequisites

Successful passing the course JN1/1.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

  • mastering the material of a semester learning
  • success at written semester test (min. 50%)

Course curriculum

Item has no outline.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The course is concentrated on general German. Note: This is a two-semester course.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

  • 75% attendance in seminars
  • active participation and fulfilling the set tasks
  • short progress tests

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

  • Apelt, H.P., Apelt, M.: Plus deutsch 1, Hueber Fraus, Plzeň 2000
  • Zavřelová, D.: Technické minimum, UJAZ FEI VUT Brno

Recommended reading

  • Apelt, H.P., Apelt, M.: Plus deutsch 1, Hueber Fraus Plzeň 2000
  • Zavřelová, D.: Technické minimum, UJAZ FEI VUT Brno
  • Justová, H.: Wir uben deutsche Grammatik, Fragment
  • Steevens, J.P., Victoor, A.: Was ist das? Modernes deutsches Bildworterbuch, Art press Bratislava 1990

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's

    branch BIT , any year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Fundamentals seminar

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

  1. Countries, occupations, fields of study, questionwords, personal pronouns
  2. Occupations, regular verbs, verb HAVE
  3. Personal questions, verb BE, word order in questions and positive sentences
  4. Countries and towns, the alphabet, expressing the negative
  5. Obtaining information, definite and indefinite articles and pronoun KEIN, possessive adjectives
  6. Family and relatives, subject and object case of indef. article, adjective suffixes after indef. article
  7. Rooms and furniture, object case - def. and indef., article, possessive adjectives, personal pronouns
  8. Sightseeing, shopping, plural, expressing measure, amount and price
  9. House and flat, past tense -préteritum- of regular verbs, BE, HAVE
  10. Food and drinks, verbs möchte
  11. In a restaurant, coordinative conjuctions
  12. Means of transport, present teuse of irregular verbs
  13. Travelling by train, telling the time, imperative, the main-sentence word order
  14. Holidays and travelling, pronoun WELCH-, verb WISSEN
  15. Accommodation, hotel, subordinate clause, indirect question
  16. Spending the time- weekend, free time, past tense(Perfekt)
  17. Countries, languages, adjective cases after indefinite article
  18. Vegetables and fruit, verb mögen, adjective cases without articles
  19. Town and countryside, demonstrative pronouns
  20. Working day, verbs with separable and inseparable prefix
  21. Getting ready for trip, subordinate clouses with conjunctions ob, dass, wenn
  22. Orders and bans, modal verbs
  23. Occupations, verb WERDEN, modal verbs in present tense
  24. Office work and housework, past tense-Perfekt, indefinite pronouns
  25. Car accident, participle of irregular verbs, past participle as adjective
  26. On holiday, use of past tense- préteritum and perfektum