.
The German Language
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:1.00
Study Course Accepted:10.04.2024 08:44:47
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | SZF_127 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 4.00 | ECTS: | 6.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Political Science | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Ludmila Jermakoviča | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 17 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 34 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 34 | ||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.2 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 17 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 34 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 34 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Not required. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Ensure that having completed the course, students are able to use German for communication in daily life in accordance with the description of skills corresponding to levels A1/A2 of the “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment”. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Pronunciation of vowels, consonants and letter combinations. Greetings and saying goodbye. Phrases for getting acquainted. Addressing someone formally (using second person plural) and informally (using second person singular). Position of the verb in a sentence. Word order in the sentence. Questions with interrogative pronouns "W-Frage" and without "Ja/Nein-Frage". Names of the countries and languages in German. Definite article "-der(m), die(f), das(n)" | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Place of residence, address, telephone number, marital status, e-mail address, place of work or studies. The use of verbs "wohnen, arbeiten, studieren” and the question word "Wo?” in the sentence. University, faculties. Cardinal numbers from 1 to 1000. Conjugation of the verbs "haben" and "sein” and use in sentences. Use of the question word "Wer?” in the sentence. Noun, gender. | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Numerals from 1000 to billion. Household utensils, furniture. Supermarket, department store, information, prices. Plural of nouns. Accusative of nouns. | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Federal Republic of Germany. Federal states. National symbols. Parliament, parties. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Shopping in a grocery store. Imperatives: instructions, requests and advice. Nominative case and dative case of Personal pronouns. Names of beverages and food, menu. Order in a cafe: "-Ich möchte/nehme/bestelle/trinke" + indefinite article "Akk. eine... ein... einen". Conjugation of the verb "essen”. | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Time expression – formal and informal. Event time and venue. "Um wie viel Uhr beginnt...?” Names of days, months and seasons. Public holidays in Latvia and in Germany. Professions, workplace, job responsibilities. Ordinal numerals. Modal verbs, their conjugation and use, word order in the sentence. | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | My Family, family members, relatives. Possessive pronouns, agreement with nouns, conjugation. Formal and informal letters. Household chores. Irregular verbs – conjugation and use. Verbs with separable and inseparable prefixes – conjugation and use. | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Brief history of Germany. Unification of Germany. Government, foreign policy. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Sightseeing in Berlin, Germany and Latvia, the most favourite places. Travel, route description, transport, traffic, getting around the city, location of various sites. Recent past events. The past form of the verbs "war, hatte". Past Perfect – "Perfekt; Partizip II”, regular and irregular verbs. Accusative of personal pronouns. | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Leisure and travel offer, entertainment options in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Latvia: travel, leisure, cities, places of interest, nature. Past Perfect "-Perfekt". | Classes | 4.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | The European Union, its structure, institutions and Member States. | Classes | 3.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Home assignments to acquire active vocabulary and grammatical structures. Individual, pair and group work - preparation of dialogues, tasks and presentations according to the course topics. Students are obliged to fill in the course evaluation questionnaire at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Regular attendance of classes is required. Active participation in practical classes, home assignments completed for each class. Test at the end of each module, which may include reading, listening, language use, writing and speaking skills, in which at least 55% of the answers must be corred to receive a pass. At the end of the 3rd semester test with a cumulative assessment, taking into account the results of the tests and participation in the course during the semester. Examination at the end of the course, which may include reading, listening, writing and speaking skills and vocabulary use. The final assessment consists of: examination - 50%: average grade of tests - 40%: attendance - 10%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students will be able to use standard vocabulary in German in spoken and written communication, able to recognise and distinguish between statements and questions; able to find the necessary information in the text; able to use the most necessary phrases to start a conversation and to maintain it; able to recognise the most common German language structures; able to recognise and determine whether the relevant statement or text is related to present, past or future activities Students are aware of the aspects of intercultural relations in the use of language. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students will be able to comprehend simple texts on definite everyday issues, letters, invitations, advertisements in the press and other authentic materials; will gain the skils to use acquired language structures in everyday communication, to retell and paraphrase the text expressing own opinion, including the consideration of intercultural communication aspects, . | ||||||||
| Competencies: | The competence to deliver brief personal information, information about your relatives, living conditions and studies, the competence to write an invitation and private letters, short messages, write down simple information, the competence to make a monologue on varios topics related to social life and jour studies, while demonstrating of the intercultural aspects of communication. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Menschen A1. Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Kursbuch. Hueber Verlag, 2016 | ||||||||
| 2 | Menschen A1. Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Arbeitsbuch. Hueber Verlag, 2016 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Zur Orientierung Deutsch - Quiz. Hueber Verlag, 2010 | ||||||||
| 2 | Zwischendurch mal. Landeskunde. Hueber Verlag, 2012 | ||||||||
| 3 | Egons Ziediņš. Vācu valodas praktiska gramatika. Zvaigznes ABC, 2009 | ||||||||
| 4 | Deutsch Perfekt - Ein Sprachmagazin | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | www.hueber de\deutsch lernen | ||||||||
| 2 | www.goethe.de | ||||||||
