Subject 'German II'

Year:   2014/2015    2015/2016    2016/2017    2017/2018    2018/2019    

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). Work instructions and manuals. Occupational safety requirements. 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).

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.

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.

Practical classes. Independent work.

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).

1. Written tests
2. Oral and written reporting of texts
3. Making Power Point presentations
Grading criteria for methods 2 and 3 are provided by lecturer at the beginning of the course.

Fachsprache Deutsch

2014: AT*  ET*  HE*  KT*  ME*  RA*  RG*  RR*  RT*  TD*  TE*  TL*  TT*  

* Optional subject