German for Lower-Intermediate 1/2

• 26 hrs exercises

General language understanding based on reading and listening comprehension. Ability to respond adequately in common situations. To be able to inform about personal experience. Ability to reason and explain, inform about plans and intentions, to give and obtain information. Basic skills for understanding specialized texts (reading comprehension, presentation).

The course is concentrated on general German and partly specialized language. Note: This is a two-semester course

Knowledge on beginner German level.

• H. Justová: Wir üben deutsche Grammatik, Fragment
• Danuše Zavřelová: Technické minimum, UJAZ FEI VUT Brno
• M. Brinitzer/V. Damm: Grammatik sehen, Hueber Verlag
• Claudia Hümmler-Hille: Hören Sie mal 1, Hueber Verlag

• Dr. H.P. Apelt, Mary Apelt: plus deutsch 2, Hueber Fraus, Plzeň 2001
• Danuše Zavřelová: Technické minimum, UJAZ FEI VUT Brno

Lessons 1-6 Introducing;grammar revision;German in the world Subordinate clauses with WEIL,comparison Family,holidays,dative of nouns and adjectives Travelling,modal verb SOLLEN Revision test Leisure time,indefinite pronouns,verb phrases Media,computer,mobile phone,indirect questions,W-questions Eating and food,personal pronouns,relative clause Semester test Lessons 7-12 Town and countryside,prepositions of time Cultural life,past tense,indefinite pronouns Occupations,CV,sentences with WENN,future,indirect speech Revision test Holidays and celebrations Products and identity,passive voice Semester test

1. Introducing; grammar revision; Partizip II
2. Clothing; object case with nouns; etwas/nichts
3. Going shopping, in the shop
4. Protest demonstration in Leipzig; prepositions with the object case; adjectives used in attribute after indef. article
5. Prejudices; irregular verbs past participle
6. The weather; at the weekend; forming perfect with the help of verbs haben/sein, SOLLEN, pronoun ES
7. Tourism; perfect of mixed verbs
8. Sports-kinds of sports; adjective in the attribute after definite and indefinite article; past participle as adjective
9. Dates, arranging a date; ordinals, expressing the date; the verb WERDEN in preterit, use of the verb Werden
10. Trade fairs; question words WELCH-/WAS FUR EIN; the passive (present and past tense)
11. The human body; object case prepositions
12. At the doctor's; the verbs legen/liegen, setzen/sitzen, stehen/stellen,....
13. In the office, using the computer; schon.../-noch nicht, noch kein, erst-negative
14. Curriculum vitae; past tense-preterit of irregular verbs
15. Work, occupation; verb patterns, adjectives with prefix "un-" 
16. Making a phone call, electronic mail; adverbs
17. Relationship in a family; reflexive verbs
18. Relationships; reflexive verbs with a pattern
19. Advertisements; reciprocity with certain verbs
20. Family budget, expenditures; noun declension, conditional of the verb sollen  
21. Money, salary; modal verbs meaning, adjective declension in attribute
22. Films and cinema; weak declension of nouns
23. Housing; leaving out the article with nouns
24. Environment; adjective declension without an article in attribute
25. Customs, holidays, traditions; writing letters
26. Museums, exhibitions; declension of adjectives after definite and indefinite article, and without an article-revision

Credit and examination

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.