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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
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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
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Life in the city/country
Culture
Education and jobs
Celebrations and presents
Body language and film
Inventions
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Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Revision of basic rules of the pronunciation of spoken German
Grammar
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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
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Course book: studio d A2. Teilband 2 [chapter 7 – 12] Deutsch als Fremdsprache Kursund Übungsbuch, Cornelsen Verlag, ISBN: 9783464207680
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In addition there is a wide range of language learning materials for self-study in the
Self-Access Centre.
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