Courses / Module

• Recognise a wide range of tenses and some complex grammatical structures and employ them to produce meaningful and correct German sentences.
• Interpret and apply new vocabulary introduced in class.
• Converse in German with some degree of fluency about topical issues of relevance to their lives – cultural diversity, students’ concerns, social problems etc.
• Translate simple English texts on topics related to those dealt with in class to produce a correct and coherent German text.

• 24 contact (language) hours, 12 language centre hours, 24 hours of optional additional tuition.

• Module Graded (numeric value) or Ungraded (Pass/Not Passed): Graded
• Continuous Assessment detail(s): Continuous assessment (one test): 10%. (Grammatik, application of grammar). Viva Voce Oral: 30%
• Other detail(s): Viva Voce Oral Examination

• Pass standard: 40%
• Could the result of this module be capped? No
• 40%
• Penalties: See German Department''s Students'' Handbook. 70% attendance required.

• An oral examination must be taken in the Autumn if a student has failed the module in the previous session, even if the student previously passed the oral examination. Continuous Assessment marks are carried forward to the autumn.
• University scheduled written examination (Autumn): 90 minutes

• GN110; GN120; GN210

Essential textbook: Dreyer/Schmitt, “A Practice Grammar of German – Die Gelbe aktuell”, Hueber 2010, ISBN: 9783193272553

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