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German A I

Subject
Subject code HKE089
Subject name German A I
Credit points 3 ECTS
Grading method Grade prelim
Curriculum subject
Curriculum 2012 AT
Study year 1
Semester Spring semester
Subject type Mandatory
Subject loads
Lecture 8
General description
Speech-developing exercises, texts for reading, reporting and commenting, writing summaries, presentation, work with a dictionary.

Topics: Higher education. Estonia. Environmental issues. Development of technology. Texts on speciality.
Revision of grammar: exercises.
Independent reading: 10000 characters of speciality-related text.
General aim
Special purpose language course for the students of all curricula. The aim of the course is to develop the four components of language competence - listening, speaking, reading and writing skills - through interactive and communicative activity and expanding thestudents' professional vocabulary.
The course materials require the learners' foreign language skills on B2 level.
Aim
After completing the course students
1. are able to introduce both in oral and written form their school (TTK UAS) and the system of higher education(academic and applied) in Estonia;
2. can give oral and written information about Estonian history, economy and politics;
3. can make up and deliver a presentation (Topics: My home town; A university abroad etc);
4. can sum up a text on speciality, including the essential information;
5. are familiar with a certain amount of professional vocabulary, can use it both orally and in writing.
Form description
Practical classes. Group work, pair work. Independent work.
Literature
Materials compiled and chosen by the lecturer.
Evaluation methods
1. Written tests
Grading criteria:
5 - 100 -90% correct answer
4 - 89 - 80%
3 - 79 - 70%
2 - 69 - 60%
1 - 59 - 51%
2. Oral and written (100 - 200 words) reporting of texts
3. Group work: solving problems
4. Making Power Point presentations
The grading criteria for other methods are provided by the lecturer at the beginning of the course.
Name of the e-learning course at Moodle environment (http://ekool.tktk.ee)
Deutsch A I by Britt Petjärv
Replacement Subjects
HKE137 German for Special Purposes I
Current rounds
None
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