Course detail

German for Lower-Intermediate 1/2

FIT-JN2Acad. year: 2010/2011

The course builds on the material of the course JN1 or previous studying at secondary school. The grammar material is exploited effectively in listening and communicative activities taken from common everyday situations.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Ladislav Baumgartner

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

General language understanding based on reading and listening comprehension. Ability to respond adequately in common situations. To be able to inform about personal experience. Ability to reason and explain, inform about plans and intentions, to give and obtain information. Basic skills for understanding specialized texts (reading comprehension, presentation).

Prerequisites

Knowledge on beginner German level.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

  • mastering the material of the semester
  • 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 and partly specialized language. Note: This is a two-semester course

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

  • active participation in seminars
  • 75% attendance in seminars
  • progress tests
  • writing compositions based on conversational topics
  • working with texts

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

  • Dr. H.P. Apelt, Mary Apelt: plus deutsch 2, Hueber Fraus, Plzeň 2001
  • Danuše Zavřelová: Technické minimum, UJAZ FEI VUT Brno

Recommended reading

  • H. Justová: Wir üben deutsche Grammatik, Fragment
  • Danuše Zavřelová: Technické minimum, UJAZ FEI VUT Brno
  • M. Brinitzer/V. Damm: Grammatik sehen, Hueber Verlag
  • Claudia Hümmler-Hille: Hören Sie mal 1, Hueber Verlag

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's

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

Type of course unit

 

Fundamentals seminar

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Ladislav Baumgartner

Syllabus

  1. Introducing; grammar revision; Partizip II
  2. Clothing; object case with nouns; etwas/nichts
  3. Going shopping, in the shop
  4. Protest demonstration in Leipzig; prepositions with the object case; adjectives used in attribute after indef. article
  5. Prejudices; irregular verbs past participle
  6. The weather; at the weekend; forming perfect with the help of verbs haben/sein, SOLLEN, pronoun ES
  7. Tourism; perfect of mixed verbs
  8. Sports-kinds of sports; adjective in the attribute after definite and indefinite article; past participle as adjective
  9. Dates, arranging a date; ordinals, expressing the date; the verb WERDEN in preterit, use of the verb Werden
  10. Trade fairs; question words WELCH-/WAS FUR EIN; the passive (present and past tense)
  11. The human body; object case prepositions
  12. At the doctor's; the verbs legen/liegen, setzen/sitzen, stehen/stellen,....
  13. In the office, using the computer; schon.../-noch nicht, noch kein, erst-negative
  14. Curriculum vitae; past tense-preterit of irregular verbs
  15. Work, occupation; verb patterns, adjectives with prefix "un-" 
  16. Making a phone call, electronic mail; adverbs
  17. Relationship in a family; reflexive verbs
  18. Relationships; reflexive verbs with a pattern
  19. Advertisements; reciprocity with certain verbs
  20. Family budget, expenditures; noun declension, conditional of the verb sollen  
  21. Money, salary; modal verbs meaning, adjective declension in attribute
  22. Films and cinema; weak declension of nouns
  23. Housing; leaving out the article with nouns
  24. Environment; adjective declension without an article in attribute
  25. Customs, holidays, traditions; writing letters
  26. Museums, exhibitions; declension of adjectives after definite and indefinite article, and without an article-revision