The German It is the most widely spoken language in Europe. Germany is one of Spain’s major trading partners and there is a high demand for German speakers to work in Germany and in other countries where German is an official language. Thanks to this training programme in German A1 You will be able to acquire the knowledge you need to cope with everyday situations, both at work and in your immediate environment. This training course in German A1 will enable you to understand and use everyday expressions very commonly used words, as well as simple phrases intended to to meet needs of an immediate nature.
Cross-cutting
German
90 hours
German A1
German
90 hours
Introduction
Objectives
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To get a elementary level in oral and written comprehension, and in oral and written expression and interaction.
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Learn how to introduce you yourself and others, asking for and giving basic personal information, etc.
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To know the rules of courtesy and the customary greetings in German society.
Table of Contents
TEACHING UNIT 1. LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC CONTENT
- Basic vocabulary
- Formation of very common words: Wohnzimmer, Hausaufgaben, Arbeitsbuch
- Most common affixes: schöner, unmöglich, machbar
- Introduction to antonyms (groß–klein) and words with similar meanings (Tisch–Schalter)
- The most common false friends (gym – Gymnasium, fair – Ferien, high – alt, warm – kalt)
- Abbreviations of commonly used words (U-Bahn, PKW, LKW)
- Verbs with a very commonly used particle (zumachen, aufräumen, ankommen, abfahren)
- An introduction to some basic conversational patterns: (Asking a question – giving an answer – pausing)
TEACHING UNIT 2. GRAMMAR TOPICS
- Prayer
- Nouns and adjectives
- Determinants
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Adverbs
- Links
TEACHING UNIT 3. SPELLING CONTENT
- The alphabet. Spelling
- Graphical representation of phonemes and sounds:
- Capitalisation of proper nouns (names of people and places) and nouns in general
- Basic use of punctuation marks: full stop, colon, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe and hyphen
- Commonly used symbols: @, €, £, $
TEACHING UNIT 4. PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL CONTENT
- Vowel sounds and phonemes
- Consonant sounds and phonemes
- Phonological processes: devoicing, voicing, linking, assimilation and elision
- Stress and unstressed syllables: tonal patterns in the phrase. Basic principles of rhythm and intonation
TEACHING UNIT 5. SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTENT
- Linguistic markers of social relationships, rules of politeness, stereotypes and a basic introduction to geographical and register varieties
TEACHING UNIT 6. FUNCTIONAL CONTENT
- Assertive behaviour
- Binding acts
- Management decisions
- Phatic and solidarity-based acts
- Expressive acts
TEACHING UNIT 7. DISCURSIVE CONTENT
- An introduction to basic phrases relating to communication management
- Forms of address
- Conversational phrases for greeting people, introducing yourself, addressing someone, saying goodbye, interacting and asking for help
- The use of certain markers to structure discourse and resources to provide context in terms of space and time
- Most common connectors
- An introduction to contrasting formal and informal registers, using some common expressions
- Omission of known elements (Ich stehe um sieben (Uhr) auf und (ich) frühstücke.)
- Basic intonation and discourse punctuation
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