German Advanced 1 (B2)

This course is a continuation from German Intermediate Consolidation and is for any student wishing to learn the language for business, travel or everyday use with approximately 320 hours of German required. Students will develop skills to use in conversation, reading, listening and writing. This course aims to build general advanced comprehension and communication skills in German and a review of cultural practices, with a focus on clear explanation of higher level language principles.

DELIVERY MODE

• Online

TEXTBOOK

• Sicher B2 Kursbuch (Max Hueber Verlag: 2014), ISBN: 9783190012077

COURSE OUTLINE

Unit 1

• Fairy Tales and the Brothers Grimm
• Talking about and telling fairy tales
• Castles in the region of Saxony
• Revision of tenses: simple past, perfect, pluperfect
• Temporal conjunctions
• Endings of adjectives

Unit 2

• My Rights
• Talking about rights and responsibilities
• Writing a letter of complaint
• Solve an argument
• Giving advice
• Infinitive with zu
• Conjunctive II
• Complex sentence structure

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation.
2. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.
3. Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.

LANGUAGE CLASS TRANSFER POLICY

If you are a new WEA Student and enrol into a language class and subsequently find that you are at the wrong level (whether too high or too low), you are permitted to transfer into another more suitable class at no additional cost, provided that the request is made within the first two classes and is in writing from your tutor directly to the Education Manager. After that point, an administration fee of $30 will apply.