GERMAN 101G German Language Introductory 1

Schedule
Schedule H: Languages

Semester
Summer School, Semester One, Semester Two

Campus
City Campus

Note: GERMAN 101 does not count for General Education; only GERMAN 101G counts for General Education.

This course is intended for students who have no previous knowledge of the German language. It aims to provide German learners with basic vocabulary and conversational skills.

There are four class hours per week, with the speaking, listening, reading, and writing components fully integrated into all.

The teaching of the language is reinforced through:

• In-class practice
• Online assignments
• Homework assignments
• In-class tests
• Independent work using the course website

You will be participating actively in class to develop your communicative skills. Attendance at all classes is strongly recommended.

This course is intended for students who have no previous knowledge of the German language.

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Greet and introduce people in German, including information about their nationality, profession, and family.
• Use German to ask about where people live, where they work, and to give and understand directions on how  to go to different places.
• Discuss your University studies and ask other students about theirs
• Talk about quantities, prices, and distances using German numbers.
• Ask and give information about houses, neighbourhoods, and cities.
• Describe people's physical appearance and personalities.
• Communicate about activities that happen in familiar settings.
• Express your likes and dislikes as well as those of others.
• Ask and talk about how you and other people feel.
• Talk about your daily routine and activities that happen in the present and have happened in the past.

• Weeks 1 and 2: Greetings and introductions, names, numerals, polite commands, questions.
• Weeks 3 and 4: Family, descriptions, weather, seasons, likes, dislikes, time, daily routine.
• Weeks 5 and 6: Possessions, clothing, appearance, hobbies, pastimes.
  
• Weeks 7 and 8: Talents, plans, ability, obligation, intentions, compliments.
• Weeks 9 and 10: Everyday activities, expressing past events.
• Weeks 11 and 12: Work and leisure, holidays, expressing emotions.

Four 1-hour classes per week are delivered by your teacher using German as the main language. Use of English is limited and will decrease gradually as the semester progresses. Classes are interactive, with opportunities for you to practise your listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Attendance at all classes is strongly recommended.

70% coursework:

• 6 Centro assignments: 18% (6 x 3%)
• 2 written assignments: 6% (2 x 3%)
• 2 written tests: 16% (2 x 8%, in class time)
• 2 CECIL tests: 10% (2 x 5%, in weeks 6 and 12)
• 2 oral exams: 20% (2 x 10%, in weeks 9 and 12)

30% final examination

Prescribed textbook
Book bundle: Tracy D. Terrell, Erwin Tschirner & Brigitte Nikolai, Kontakte: A Communicative Approach. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2008 [6th edition]; and "Quia Online Arbeitsbuch Access Card" (McGraw-Hill, 2008, 6th ed.) ISBN 9780077299507