German Intensive Reading for Complete Beginners

Learning Outcomes
By the end of HT students will be able to read and translate modern German Short Stories
and newspaper articles, by the end of the TT they will also be able to understand
independently with a dictionary academic texts from specialist journals, to extract important
information and decide their relevance to their work.
They will be able (with help) to read and appreciate excerpts from Goethe’s Faust or similar
works.
They will have developed an appreciation of aspects of the history and culture of Germany,
Switzerland and Austria.
Course Text
There is no course book. Students will be given a large number of photocopied handouts
(grammar explanations, grammar exercises, reading texts for translation.)
These hand-outs are also available on a web-site: http://tinyurl.com/German-Reading-
Plan-MT (course-plan) and http://tinyurl.com/German-Reading-MT (materials).
They will be referred to in class.
In addition, students are required to purchase the following reference book for self-study
Anna Miell & Heiner Schenke: Intermediate German A Grammar and Workbook, Routledge
2006, available from Blackwells
Teaching hours
1.5hs twice a week
(Except in Weeks II and III of MT when students are asked to come only to one of the two
weekly meetings)
In addition at least 3 hours of revision and preparation are required per week.
Please note
The syllabus in weeks II and III of MT is identical with that of both the Less Intensive
Reading Class and the Translation Workshop. Students on waiting lists for the Intensive
Class will be able to change over at a later stage.