German 2

Key facts

Type	Weekly Classes
Location	Oxford
Address	Ewert House Ewert Place Summertown Oxford
Dates	Mon 30 Sep 2013 to Mon 17 Mar 2014 Day: Monday Time of meeting: 7.15-9.15pm Number of meetings: 20
Subject area(s)	German
CATS points	20
Fees	From £305.00
Application status	Applications being accepted
Course code	O13P852WEW
Course contact	If you have any questions about this course, please email ppweekly@conted.ox.ac.uk.

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Overview

All the Department’s language courses are designed to help you communicate in a friendly atmosphere with an emphasis on pair and group interaction. The focus is on speaking, listening and the exploration of culture and society, backed up by an understanding of grammar. Students will be encouraged to develop their reading and writing skills in their own time and regular assignments will be set. Choosing your level.

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Programme details

Week 1: Introductions, work and jobs
Week 2: Talk about the past and the present
Week 3: Get information and buy tickets
Week 4: Make polite requests and give advice
Week 5: Book a hotel room, plan a trip
Week 6: Talk about health, body parts, aches and pains
Week 7: Arrange an appointment, office hours
Week 8: Ask directions, talk about means of transport
Week 9: At the train station, deal with train schedules
Week 10: At the tourist office, ask for help and visit sites

Week 11: Deal with services, complaints
Week 12: Understand telephone calls and messages
Week 13: Organise a trip
Week 14: Describe clothes. At the lost property office
Week 15: Shopping, comparing prices
Week 16: Talk about fashion, likes and dislikes
Week 17: Plan parties and celebrations
Week 18: Write letters and e-mails
Week 19: Accept and decline invitations
Week 20: Make a journey through D – A – CH

Course Books:
Daniela Niebisch, Schritte International 2 - Kursbuch + Arbeitsbuch (Hueber, 2006)
Daniela Niebisch, Schritte International 1 + 2 - Intensivtrainer + Audio-CD (Hueber, 2009)
Daniela Niebisch, Schritte International 2 - Glossar Deutsch-Englisch, Englisch-Deutsch (Hueber, 2009)

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Staff

Mrs Doris Hermann-Ostrowski

Role: Tutor

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Course aims

All the Department's language courses are designed to help you communicate in a friendly atmosphere with an emphasis on pair and group interaction. The focus is on speaking, listening and the exploration of culture in society, backed up by an understanding of grammar. Students will be encouraged to develop their reading and writing skills in their own time and regular assignments will be set.

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Assessment methods

Most tutors will set weekly assignments to consolidate learning and allow students to study at their own pace. Some of these assignments, which may include testing listening and speaking skills, will count towards formally assessing the students’ progress.

At Stages 5 & 6, students can expect to be assessed on either one 1,000 word essay or two shorter ones written in their target language.

At lower stages, students are required instead to submit for assessment a range of exercises and/or shorter pieces of work.

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Teaching methods

Language classes are kept small (typically 10-15 students) in order to ensure plenty of opportunities for interaction in the target language, leading to the development of listening and speaking skills, as well as an understanding of grammar.

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Teaching outcomes

The following are brief indicators of what students should be able to do in each of the skills: Speaking (S), Listening (L), Reading (R), and Writing (W), by the end of the individual stages:

STAGE 2
S - participate in simple prepared discussions
L - understand simple recorded material
R - understand the gist of magazine articles and simple texts
W - write informal letters and descriptive paragraphs

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