- Credits: 3
- SSD: L-LIN/14
- Language: German
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics of Tourism (cod. 0032)
Learning outcomes
The attitude test of German, level B1, enable students to reach the following skills:
- Grammar knowledges: morphological-lexical: 20 items.
- Grammar knowledges: syntax: 5 items.
- Reading comprehension: 15 items.
- Listening comprehension: 10 items.
Course contents
2.1 Communicative functions:
Comprehension of written texts of different typologies: advertisements, signals, notices, descriptions, articles, formal and informal letters, short messages. Comprehension of oral texts: dialogues, telephone calls, messages taken from the answering machine, notices, informative texts (ex: the weather), news, radio listening.
2.2 Grammar contents:
Noun phrase
- Cases: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive
- Noun declension, the second declension – determinative and indeterminative articles, possessive articles and their declension
- Personal demonstrative pronouns, possessives, indefinites and their declension Adverbial pronouns Adjectives: predicative position, attributive position; their declension, comparative and superlative formation
Verbal noun
- Verbal tenses: Präsens, Präteritum, Perfekt, Plusquamperfect, Futur I
- Separable verbs
- Auxiliary and modal verbs
- Reflexive and reciprocal verbs
- Main irregular verbs in the following tenses: Präteritum, Perfekt and Plusquamperfect
- Moods: indicative, imperative, subjunctive (II)
- Passive form: Präsens, Präteritum, Perfekt, Plusquamperfekt, Futur I Passive form with a modal verb: Präsens, Präteritum, Perfekt Participle (as an attribute – noun phrase)
Other elements
- Main prepositions Main adverbs, comparative and superlative included Main conjunctions (those linking two principal sentences and those linking a main sentence and a secondary one)
Syntax
- Interrogative sentence
- Infinitive construction (um + zu + inf.) Relative sentence Secondary adverbial sentences: Temporalsatz, Konditionalsatz, Konzessivsatz, Modalsatz, Konsecutivsatz, Kausalsatz, Finalsatz
Lexical contents:
- The family: members, events, holidays, interests etc.
- The house: address, situation, furnishing, projects etc.
- The kitchen: drinks, food, going out for dinner etc.
- Free-time: hobbies, personal interests, sport, culture etc.
- Shopping: for example in a clothes shop or in a telephony shop; going to the bank or to a post office
- Travelling: planning and reservation; traffic, station, airport, etc.
- University: counselling, main vocabulary
- Work: counselling, main vocabulary
- Mass-media, news, the weather
- Culture: cinema, art, theatre, music; main concepts of the socio-political world
Readings/Bibliography
Teaching tools and grammar books:
- Aufderstraße, J. Müller, Th. Storz: DELFIN, Part 1 and Part 2, each part: two volumes: Text book, Exercise book, publishing house: Hueber > exercise books are particularly important!
- M. Reimann, Grundstufen-Grammatik für Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Hueber
- Le Monnier, 2000 - H. Dreyer, R. Schmitt, German grammar with exercises, Verlag für Deutsch (italian edition)
- C. Fandrych, U. Tallowitz, Klipp und Klar, Stuttgart, Klett Verlag 2000
- M. Weeming, M. Mondello, Dies und Das, German grammar with exercises, Cideb Editrice 1996
Teaching methods
In order to prepare attitude tests, the linguistic center (CLIRO) organizes blended modules made up as follows:
- Group work (traditional lessons with exercises, activities, grammar and lexical explanations on the base of all the topics of the E-learning Platform)
- Discussion forums to interact on-line with tutors and other students
- Exercises and practice through the CLIRO E-learning Platform
Assessment methods
The final exam will consist in a 60 minutes computerised written test.
Standard tests are available on the CLIRO AlfaCert platform.
Teaching tools
Linguistic laboratory, PC, Audio
Websites and multimedia material:
- http://www.cliro.unibo.it/portale/idoneita/index_idoneita.asp
- Multitest Deutsch: test of linguistic comprehension with automatic correction. It is available in the section "AlfaCert E-learning" on the website of the CLIRO.
- AlfaCert Test: it is in the "AlfaCert E-learning" on the website of the CLIRO.
- Attitude test, German, level B1: computerised test, Demo version, on the website of the linguistic centre (CLIRO)