Module GR 1001

Lesen und erzählen, Tatsache und Meinung

By the end of this course, students should be able to …

Receptive functions
- Read and understand broadly narrative texts: newspaper reports, short stories, detective   stories etc,
- Read a variety of texts which develop the vocabulary areas listed below.
- Read materials which relate to events of public interest, current affairs, social issues – as found in press, advertising, public information etc,

Productive functions
- Narrate experiences and describe places and events from the your own life, or that of others.
- Give definitions.
- Compare and contrast different phenomena, defining them in terms of differences and similarities.
- Use syntactic and semantic analysis to identify appropriate words to fill gaps in a cloze test.
- Write a Bericht, (a straightforward narrative account of events, such as might appear in a newspaper).
- Express opinion (e.g. in the form of a Leserbrief) clearly, cogently and vigorously.
- Produce answers to questions of content and grammar on given passages.
- Write German with increased fluency and accuracy.

Vocabulary
- Use basic vocabulary of university life (e.g. die Vorlesung, die Hausarbeit, der Dozent…).
- Use vocabulary of general description: adjectives of size, age, colour, extent etc.
- Use vocabulary of nationality: e.g. deutsch, der Deutsche, der Amerikaner etc, (nouns and adjectives).
- Use vocabulary for the themes of travel, books and reading, home and abroad, city & country life, men and women.
- Use vocabulary of comparing and contrasting.
- Use appropriate vocabulary for talking about time, to order events in a narrative.
- Use vocabulary of opinion.
- Use vocabulary typical for a Bericht.

Grammatical
- Use verbs correctly in all tenses: present, perfect, preterite and pluperfect, particularly strong and weak verbs, modal verbs, auxiliary verbs.
- Use appropriate cases for the noun phrase (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive, for nouns, pronouns, determiners, adjectives)
- Use prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs of time correctly (nach/nachdem/danach, vor/bevor/davor)
- Use appropriate word order and punctuation with the above.
- Use Indikativ and Konjunktiv II in conditional sentences.
- Use Konjunktiv I & II for indirect speech
- Use Relative Clauses correctly.
- Use modal verbs in more complex sentences.
- Identify passive structures.

In addition to these oral, written and grammatical skills, you should also be able and have developed the transferable skills which are necessary for effective and successful study, such as

- to plan your work and manage your time effectively,
- to reflect on your work analytically and accurately,
- to assess your own quality of work critically and accurately,
- to react to your own and other assessment appropriately,
- to manage information successfully
- to solve problems successfully,
- to work independently and in a team, and independently

If you need help with study skills please come to see me in 5090 or send me an email: Katrin