UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES & INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION Evening Courses German Level 2+ (Common European Framework Level A2) Prerequisite for entry Successful completion of German Level 2 at UCL CLIE or for learners who have studied the language before, for instance up to GCSE level, and have some knowledge of the main present and present perfect tenses, weil and dass clauses, and the four German cases. Term duration 10 x 2-hour classes Progression After 20 hours students may progress to level 3 Aims and Objectives The aim of the course is to enable students with a good knowledge of basic German to reach an intermediate level and to communicate in and understand German on many practical everyday matters related to various aspects of German culture. Functions - Talking about life in the city/country; looking for a flat/house Talking about European Cities of Culture, city tour Weimar Talking about education, training, jobs Talking about celebrations in Germany Interpreting emotions through body language, describing a film Discovering inventions and their history Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered - Life in the city/country Culture Education and jobs Celebrations and presents Body language and film Inventions UCL Centre for Languages & International education Evening Courses 1 Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics - Revision of basic rules of the pronunciation of spoken German Grammar - als clauses; modal verbs (imperfect) Perfect and imperfect tense; temporal adverbs: damals, früher / heute, jetzt Connecting sentences with denn – weil; the verb werden; nominalisation: wohnen – die Wohnung; requests/politeness: hätte, könnte dative prepositions; verbs with the dative; verbs with the dative and the accusative; wenn clauses (conditions and consequences) Indefinite pronouns: einige, manche; dual-prepositions with the dative or accusative; genitive; relative clauses: in, mit + dative Passive with werden/wurden; um zu / damit clauses Learning Resources - Course book: studio d A2. Teilband 2 [chapter 7 – 12] Deutsch als Fremdsprache Kursund Übungsbuch, Cornelsen Verlag, ISBN: 9783464207680 - In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials for self-study in the Self-Access Centre. UCL Centre for Languages & International education Evening Courses 2