Czech

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Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Students will be able to understand more complicated German texts and listenings and deal with more demanding everyday situations at the upper-intermediate level (B2 according to the CEFR). They will be able to express themselves spontaneously, fluently and precisely and furthermore, they will be able to use more advanced phrases and idioms. Students will also have mastered a number of more advanced grammar phenomena, including adjectives (formation, prepositions, position in the sentence), verbs with prepositions, verb formation (prefixation), word order in the main and subordinate clauses, revision of past tenses, negation, grammatical gender and plural of nouns, compound nouns and substantivization. Students will have mastered vocabulary on the following topics: appearance and character, how to learn new vocabulary, on-line learning, formal and personal letter, travelling, sightseeing in a city, describing a building, tourist information, talking with friends, shopping and complaining, love, describing a photograph and expressing assumptions They will be able to talk about abstract concepts and present and justify their opinions.

Students should be familiar with grammar and vocabulary covered in the courses BYN1, BYN12, BYN2, BYN22, BYN3 and BYN32. They should be familiar with relative clauses with prepositions, adjectives as nouns, various subordinate clauses, Partizip I and II used as adjectives, two-piece conjunctions and future tense Futur I. They should be able to speak fluently on common topics and understand both oral and written language discourse. They should be able to express themselves in a comprehensible way, avoiding grave mistakes.

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Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations. Grammar and vocabulary is practised in an interactive way with emphasis on conversation. Furthermore, the lessons focus on the development of students communication and listening skills - for this purpose, interactive audiovisual technologies, LMS Moodle and SmartBoard are used.

To be able to get their credits, students need to attend classes regularly (max. 3 missed classes/semester) and actively participate in the lessons.

1st week - conjunction trotzdem, Konjunktiv II. of auxiliary and some of the moral verbs, topic: wishes and suggestions
2nd week - declension of adjectives after the indefinite article, topic: weekend, description of objects
3rd week- comparative and superlative, preposition als and wie, topic: comparing things
4th week - passiv voice in the present tense, topic: expert procedures
5th week - declension of adjectives after the definite article, topic: phone conversations
6th week - interrogative pronoun Was für ein?, wordbuilding prefixes and suffixes, local prepositions, topic: giving directions
7th week - conjunction deshalb, wordbuilding suffixes with adjectives, topic: traffic news, weather
8th week - local prepositions, declension of adjectives without article, topic: advertisements
9th week - preposition ohne, temporal prepositions, indirect questions with interrogative pronouns, topic: writing a postcard, in a bank
10th week - indirect questions with ob, the verb lassen, topic: services
11th week - summary of past tenses, revision, topic: talking about the past
12th week - revision of complex and compound sentences, topic: statistics, a life story

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Ability of understanding of more complex texts and listenings,
presentation of information from various spoken and written sources,
spontaneous, fluent and fairly accurate expressing,
fluent and effective using of the language for social, study and working purposes
target level according to the CEFR: B1 higher

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

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Perlmann-Balme, Michaela a kol.: Em neu (Niveaustufe B2). Ismaning: Hueber Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-19-001695. (DE)