Deutsch als Fremdsprache: A2.2

Thanks to your basic language skills, you can already understand your German-language environment in simple everyday situations much better. Take the next step and become a more active and confident speaker yourself.

This course is a continuation of “Deutsch als Fremdsprache: A2.1” and covers chapters 7–12 in Netzwerk neu A2.2. Participants will train for various linguistic situations from daily, academic, and professional life.

You will expand your vocabulary and grammar through texts, videos, and audio clips on topics like travel and transportation, learning, everyday working life, exercise, free time, living situations, the past, time (problems), entertainment, and art. You will learn to express yourself appropriately in various concrete daily and conversational situations—for example, how to express and react politely to questions, suggestions, advice, and desires—and to write short and simple messages and texts.

Important grammar topics will include indirect questions, subjunctive II, prepositions of place for indicating location, positional and directional verbs with prepositions of place and other prepositional verbs, simple past tense, temporal clauses, an expansion of linking words for main and subordinate clauses, and an introduction to relative clauses.

German, the target language, is the language of instruction; the academic lingua franca of English may occasionally be used as an auxiliary language.

Course information

Course level
A2.2
Date
23.09.2024–16.12.2024
  • Monday, 08:00–10:00
32 Lessons
Lecturer
Sandra Schöll, MA
Credit points
2 ECTS
Registration deadline
Thursday 19.09.2024
Okt - Dez
Course fee
Students and PhD candidates: CHF 343.00
Members of staff: CHF 643.00
Alumni: CHF 643.00
Alumni FHNW: CHF 643.00

There will be no class on 30 September 2024.

Course materials

Netzwerk neu A2.2, Kurs- und Übungsbuch; Klett Verlag 2020; ISBN: 978-3-12-607163-5

The following grammar text is recommended for self-study:

Grammatik aktiv - Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Übungsgrammatik (A1-B1); 2. aktualisierte Ausgabe, Cornelsen Verlag Berlin (ISBN: 978-3-06-122964-1).

Further details will be found in the course confirmation. Please do not acquire the course materials before then.

Requirements

To earn credit points, participants are expected to

  • not be absent more than twice,
  • participate actively in class,
  • pass four assessments.

Workload for ECTS:
In addition to class time, participants must plan to spend 3 hours per week on preparing and reviewing for class and on autonomous learning.

You can earn 2 credit points.
The course is graded with either pass or fail.

Certificate of attendance

Active participation is assumed. In order to receive a certificate of attendance for this course, you are not allowed to be absent more than twice.

Placement test

This course requires either an obligatory computer placement test or completion of a preceding course (attendance of at least 8 sessions or 23 of the course lessons).

Replacement date

The supplementary replacement date for lessons that might not take place is: 07.12.2024 from 10:00 - 16:00.

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