EXPORT-ORIENTED MANAGEMENT - IMC Fachhochschule Krems

German intermediate
Semester Hours per week Subject code ECTS
Fall 2 GER Interm. 2,5
Learning Outcomes / Course Objectives
After this course the students will be able to communicate and discuss from several
points of view certain themes, touching everyday life. They can talk for instance about
fashion, people and social problems, education and job, some aspects in business, family
and relationship.
Furthermore they are able to read newspaper articles and write comments, read job
announcements and write a CV.
Prerequisites / Level
GER Beginners
Course Description
In this course students will learn the foreign language the communicative way. Written
and oral texts will correspond to typical situations of German everyday life.
Within these contexts phrases and structures are trained which are important for later
usage. Drawings and pictures help with the understanding of the texts and are as well
used to build up new texts and dialogues.
The course also includes and provides a lot of information about German and Austrian
daily life, society and culture.
Literature
Required Text:
Themen aktuell 2. Kursbuch+Arbeitsbuch mit Audio CD. Hueber Verlag 2004. ISBN 3-19-
181691-7
Additional Reading:
Dreyer/Schmitt: A Practice Grammar of German.
http://www.hueber.de/sixcms/list.php?page=lehren_aktuell1_the&id_nav=band2
http://www.noen.at/
http://www.krone.at/
http://diepresse.com/
http://derstandard.at/
http://www.orf.at/
Evaluation
Regular Homework
Regular tests
Final exam (written and oral)
Teaching Methods
The course aims at presenting a great number of situational dialogues with the help of
audio texts, and at the same time providing the necessary language structure. Great
emphasis is put on enlarging the vocabulary and using it in dialogic speaking. Grammar
is introduced to make comprehension and text production easier and more effective.
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