General information

Course type AMUPIE
Module title German Grammar A2 Level
Language English German
Module lecturer mgr Renata Rydian
Lecturer's email rydian@amu.edu.pl
Lecturer position Senior lecturer
Faculty Foreign Languages Teaching Centre
Semester 2023/2024 (winter)
Duration 30
ECTS 4
USOS code 31-GERMANGRAMMAR-PIE

Timetable

Monday 15.00 -16.30 room 611 Collegium Novum

Module aim (aims)

Proficiency in all rules of German grammar at A2 level.

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Before starting this course students have to make sure that they have completed the A1 level of German.

You will mainly learn German grammar in this course with short stories and a lot of exercises and tests. This course is focused on the A2 German grammar, but it's also for students who want to organize their basic knowledge of German grammar. Texts from every day life will be particularly useful in developing the vocabulary at the  A2 level.

Let's deal with German grammar once and for all, shall we?

Syllabus

Week 1: Adjective declination with a definite, indefinite article - Adjektivdeklination mit dem bestimmten und 

              unbestimmten Artikel.

Week 2: Pronouns: personal , possessive, demonstrative - Pronomen: Personalpronomen, Possessivpronomen,

              Demonstativpronomen.

Week 3: Prepositions: with Accusative, Dative, Genitive, Accusative or Dative - Präpositionen mit dem Akkusativ,

               mit dem Dativ, mit dem Genitiv, mit dem Akkusativ oder Dativ.

Week 4: Verb: separable, inseparable, reflexive - Verb: trennbar, untrennbar, reflexiv.

Week 5: Adverb: local, temporal, causal, modal - Adverb: Lokaladverb, Temporaladverb, Kausaladverb,

              Modaladverb.

Week 6: Participle: present participle, past participle - Partizip Präsens, Partizip Perfekt.

Week 7: Subjunctions - Subjunktionen.

Week 8: Processual Passive - Vorgangspassiv.

Week 9: Perfekt Tense - Perfekt.

Week 10: Simple Past - Imperfekt.

Wekk 11: Infinitive Construction with "zu" - Infinitivkontruktion mit "zu".

Week 12: Case Government - Rektion des Verbs.

Week 13: Subjunktive - Konjunktiv II.

Week 14: Revision - Wiederholung

Week 15: Evaluation Test - Bewertungstest.

 

Reading list

Complete German Grammar, Ed Swick, Mc Graw Hill.

German Grammar, Collins.

Entertaining German Short Stories For Beginners and Intermediate Learners, Academy Der Sprachclub.

Deutsch Sprachkurs Plus, Hueber.

Język Niemiecki - Repetytorium, M. Siekaj.

Nowe Repetytorium z Gramatyki Języka Niemieckiego, S. Bęza.

Deutsche Grammatik in Frage und Antwort, Langenscheidt.