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German for Special Purposes II

Subject
Subject code HKE138
Subject name German for Special Purposes II
Credit points 3 ECTS
Grading method Exam
Subject program
Curriculum subject
Curriculum 2016 AT
Study year 2
Semester Fall semester
Subject type Optional
Subject loads
Practice 16
General description
Texts on speciality, reviewing, commenting and summarizing them orally and in writing.
Exercises on difficult constructions. Text-based grammar exercises.

Topics: Engineering sciences. Technology and its developments (related to speciality). Speciality-related signs and symbols. Inventions, their role in the development of technology.
Other topics related to speciality.

Independent work: work with a dictionary, presentation on speciality, homereading (based on 10000 characters of German text).
General aim
Special purpose language course for the students of all curricula. The aim of the course is to develop the students' four components of language competence - listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through interactive and communicative activity and expanding their professional vocabulary.
Aim
After completing the course students
-are able to review the familiar texts, to make both oral and written summaries;
-can develop a free conversation in German on familiar topics, make generalizations and give examples;
-apply special vocabulary and are able to explain special terms both in his/her mother tongue and in German;
-can make and present Power Point presentations on their speciality.
Form description
Practical classes. Independent work.
Literature
Course materials:
Schritte International für den Beruf, online Materialien, 2009, Hueber Verlag.
Mittelpunkt B2. Köhl-Kuhn,R. Daiels.A. 2007. Ernst Klett Sprachen GmbH.
Das Testbuch, Riegel-Poyet,M. Boelcke,J. 2008.
Zettl, E. Janssen, J. 2002. Aus moderner Technik und Naturwissenschaften. Hueber. Ismaning.



Materials compiled and chosen by the lecturer (internet-based texts and work sheets, texts from journals and magazines).
Evaluation methods
1. Written tests
2. Oral reporting of texts
3. Making Power Point presentations
Name of the e-learning course at Moodle environment (http://ekool.tktk.ee)
Fachsprache Deutsch
Current rounds
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