Deutsch als Fremdsprache: A2.1 (Kurs 1)

You have taken your first steps in German. Expand your knowledge and linguistic possibilities with this course so that you can continue to get to know and understand your German-speaking Swiss environment better and better.

This course brushes up and deepens fundamentals of grammar and vocabulary and is the follow-up course to “Deutsch als Fremdsprache: A1.2”. It covers chapters 1–6 in Netzwerk neu A2.1. Participants will train for various linguistic situations from daily, academic, and professional life.

In the course, you will expand your vocabulary and grammar through texts, videos, and audio clips on topics like personal background, school, education, online communication and media, feelings, urban life, work, and career. You will learn how to express yourself simply and appropriately in various concrete daily and conversational situations and to write short and simple messages and texts.

Your grammar will be expanded to main and subordinate clauses, reflexive verbs, the past tense and subjunctive II of modal verbs, comparative adjectives, declensions of adjectives, and the genitive.

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
A2.1
Date
26.09.2024–19.12.2024
  • Thursday, 08:00–10:00
32 Lessons
Lecturer
Beatrice Mall-Grob, Dr. phil.
Credit points
2 ECTS
Registration deadline
Wednesday 18.09.2024
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 24 October 2024.

Course materials

Netzwerk neu A2.1, Kurs- und Übungsbuch; Klett Verlag 2020; ISBN: 978-3-12-607162-8

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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