Course details
German for Beginners 1/2
JN1 Acad. year 2008/2009 Winter semester 3 credits
The course is for beginners in German. Students are introduced to the language with the emphasis on listening and acquiring basic grammar skills together with fast and direct mastering of communicative skills in everyday situations.
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Time span
- 26 hrs exercises
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Subject specific learning outcomes and competences
General understanding based on reading and listening comprehension. Ability to respond adequately incommon situations, to inform, ask questions, ask for information, be able to order or ban.
Learning objectives
The course is concentrated on general German. Note: This is a two-semester course.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
No prerequisity knowledge is called for.
Study literature
- Apelt, H.P., Apelt, M.: Plus deutsch 1, Hueber Fraus Plzeň 2000
- Zavřelová, D.: Technické minimum, UJAZ FEI VUT Brno
- Justová, H.: Wir uben deutsche Grammatik, Fragment
- Steevens, J.P., Victoor, A.: Was ist das? Modernes deutsches Bildworterbuch, Art press Bratislava 1990
Fundamental literature
- Apelt, H.P., Apelt, M.: Plus deutsch 1, Hueber Fraus, Plzeň 2000
- Zavřelová, D.: Technické minimum, UJAZ FEI VUT Brno
Syllabus of seminars
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Syllabus of numerical exercises
- Countries,occupations, fields of study, question words, personal pronouns
- Occupations, regular verbs, verb HAVE
- Personal questions, verb BE, word order in questions and positive sentences
- Countries and towns, the alphabet, expressing the negative
- Obtaining information, definite and indefinite articles and pronoun KEIN, possessive adjectives
- Family and relatives, subject and object case of indef. article,adjective suffixes after indef. article
- Rooms and furniture, object case - def. and indef., article, possessive adjectives, personal pronouns
- Sightseeing, shopping, plural, expressing measure, amount and price
- House and flat, past tense -préteritum- of regular verbs, BE, HAVE
- Food and drinks, verb möchte
- In a restaurant, coordinative conjuctions
- Means of transport, present teuse of irregular verbs
- Travelling by train, telling the time, imperative, the main-sentence word order
- Holidays and travelling, pronoun WELCH-, verb WISSEN
- Accommodation, hotel, subordinate clause, indirect question
- Spending the time- weekend, free time,past tense(Perfekt)
- Countries, languages, adjective cases after indefinite article
- Vegetables and fruit, verb mögen, adjective cases without articles
- Town and countryside, demonstrative pronouns
- Working day, verbs with separable and inseparable prefix
- Getting ready for trip, subordinate clouses with conjunctions ob, dass, wenn
- Orders and bans, modal verbs
- Occupations, verb WERDEN, modal verbs in present tense
- Office work and housework, past tense-Perfekt, indefinite pronouns
- Car accident, participle of irregular verbs, past participle as adjective
- On holiday, use of past tense - préteritum and perfektum
Progress assessment
- mastering the material of a semester learning
- success at written semester test (min. 50%)
Teaching methods and criteria
Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.
Controlled instruction
- 75% attendance in seminars
- active participation and fulfilling the set tasks
- short progress tests
Course inclusion in study plans