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Second Foreign Language (German)

[German Language] Syllabus

[Second semester, 2018-2019]

Instructor Information

Instructor

Email

Office Location & Hours

[Mag.rer.nat. Youssef Radwan]

[youssef.Radwan@spu.edu.sy]

[Laïque, 16:30-18:00, Saturday]

[Laïque, 14:30-18:30, Sunday] [Laïque, 14:30-18:30, Thursday]

General Information

Description

The course will begin with a focus intensive training on:

1.    Correct pronunciation of the alphabet due to the lack to a prior knowledge in German language by most od SPU students, spelling and pronunciation of words correctly.

2.    Acquiring basic German syntax and new vocabularies..

3.    Reading and understanding simple texts..

4.    Start interactive conversation and collective dialogues on daily life.

5.    Applying interactive education, modern communications and social networking sites to develop students' audio, visual and verbal skills at quickest.

Expectations and Goals

By the end of his course, the student will be able to:

1.    Learn how to pronounce letters spell and read German vocabularies and understand text structure.

2.    Understand basic necessary rules to build simple sentences, to introduce oneself and to greet others.

3.    Read different texts about living, housing, studying, countries and travel.

4.    Read numbers and set times and times.

5.    Prepare a simplified CV.

6.    Read and understand headlines, breaking news and short texts.

 

Language(s) of Instruction:         German                  Textbook(s) Language(s) German

Course Materials

Studio d A1, Funk, Cuhn & Demme, Cornelsen Verlag, Berlin, 2007.

Required Text

 

Grundstufen Grammatik für Deutsch als Fremsparach, Reimann, M.,  Max Hueber Verlag, 3, Auflage, München, 1983.

Course Schedule

 

Week

Topic

Reading

Exercises

1

9/2/2019

14/2/2019

Start with German, Unit 1 of  Studio A1.

German alphabet and spelling , pronunciation, diphthongs, article Pronouns

Joint reading

2

16/2/2019

21/2/2019

Start in German, Unit 1 of Studio A1.

 

International words in German, greeting and  introducing someone, asking for name and origin.

Joint reading, answering questions about names, origin.

3

23/2/2019

28/2/2019

Unit 1 of Studio A1.

Starting a conversation, introducing yourself and  someone,

Numbers from 1 to 1000

Order something and pay

Understand phone numbers

Joint reading, answering questions about names, origin

4

2/3/2019

3/3/2019

Unit 1 of Studio A1.

Interrogative sentences with how, where, from where and what

Verbs, verb to be present singular and plural

Reading numbers, verb to be.

5

9/3/2019

14/3/2019

Unit 1 of Studio A1.

Word accent in verbs and numbers, Language in course ask about different things

Reading and answering questions about different things.

6

16/3/2019

21/3/2019

Unit 2 of Studio A1.

working with dictionaries, Article

Negation, singular and plural rules.

Reading and answering questions on specific topics.

7

23/3/2019

28/3/2019

Unit 2 of Studio A1.

Composita,  word accent / umlauts ä, ö, ü hear and speak

Reading, building compositas

8

30/3/2019

4/4/2019

Unit 2 of Studio A1.

Cities and sightseeing

 

Reading and answering questions about cities and sightseeings in Europe and Syria.

9

6/4/2019

11/4/2019

Unit 3 of Studio A1.

Countries and languages

 

Reading and answering questions about countries’ names and languages.

10

13/4/2019

18/4/2019

Unit 3 of Studio A1.

Geographic al location

Past tense of verb to Be.

Reading and locating cities in relations to countries or to each other.

11

20/4/2019

25/4/2019

Unit 3 of Studio A1.

W questions, Sentence accent in question, and answers

Reading and conversation among students.

12

27/4/2019

2/5/2019

Unit 4 of Studio A1.

Describing a flat, People and things, Possessive articles in the nominative

Reading and describing different items.

13

4/5/2019

9/5/2019

Unit 4 of Studio A1.

Article in accusative

Reading and describing students’ own personal belongings.

14

11/5/2019

16/5/2019

Unit 4 of Studio A1.

Adjectives in the sentence

Graduation with zu

Reading and adjectives in sentences.

15

18/5/2019

23/5/2019

Unit 4 of Studio A1.

Describing an apartment and things

Reading and in describing students’ own apartments.

Testing Schedule

test

Date

Subject

Reading

Type

language

% of final grade

Quiz 1

2019/3/13

Start in German + Unit 1

Chapter/pp

MCQ

German

15%

Quiz 2

2019/4/17

Unit 2 + Unit 3

Chapter/pp

MCQ

German

15%

Final

2019/6/12

Start in German + Unit 1 + Unit 2 + Unit 3+ Unit 4

Start in German + Unit 1

+ Unit 2 + Unit 3+ Unit 4

MCQ

German

70%

General notes:

The interactive method will be used to teach the German language course, which has special characteristics in the pronunciation of its characters, words and rules, to overcome the fear of this language and its difficulty, and to make the student self-confidence and daring to speak and speak as soon as possible.

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