Course detail

German 5

FSI-N5Acad. year: 2025/2026

The course is intended to teach German as a foreign language at upper intermediate level. Also dealt with is the language for specific technical purposes. It is focused on practical, everyday communication for the international workplace.

Language of instruction

German

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. et Mgr. Monika Ryšavá

Department

Institute of Foreign Languages (ÚJ)

Entry knowledge

At least level A2 CEFR is required to enter the course. It doesn’t follow up on the course N4.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Course-unit credit is awarded on condition of having attended the seminars actively, worked out assigned tasks and passed a credit test. 60% points at the credit test as minimum.

Attendance at seminars is compulsory and is systematically checked by the teacher. Students are allowed to miss two seminars. Absence may be in justified cases compensated for with the consent of the teacher.

Aims

The aim of the course is to equip students for real-life tasks, such as describing problems or giving instructions, that arise in a wide range of technical occupations.
Students will be able to communicate in more difficult situations using relevant language means, and master elementary terms of the language for specific purposes.


Students will be made familiar with general vocabulary for the workplace and for everyday communication as well as with grammar and vocabulary for more difficult communication situations. They will acquire reading and listening comprehension skills which will enable them to react and communicate independently in both written and oral form.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

PERLMANN-BALME, Michaela, Susanne SCHWALB a Jutta ORTH-CHAMBAH. Sicher!: Niveau B1+. München: Hueber Verlag, [2012]. Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Hueber). ISBN 978-3-19-001206-0. (DE)

Recommended reading

E-learningové studijní opory pro předmět Němčina N5.
FUNK, Hermann a Rita von EGGELING. Studio d B1: němčina pro jazykové a střední školy zpracovaná podle Společného evropského referenčního rámce pro jazyky. Ilustroval Andreas TERGPLANE. Plzeň: Fraus, 2008. ISBN 978-80-7238-736-6. (CS)
FUNK, Hermann, Christina KUHN, Laura NIELSEN, Britta WINZER-KIONTKE, Friederike JIN a Anita GRUNWALD. Studio 21 B1: němčina pro jazykové a střední školy zpracovaná podle Společného evropského referenčního rámce pro jazyky. Plzeň: Fraus, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7489-294-3.  (CS)
PERLMANN-BALME, Michaela, Susanne SCHWALB a Jutta ORTH-CHAMBAH. Sicher!: Niveau B1+. München: Hueber Verlag, [2012]. Deutsch als Fremdsprache (Hueber). ISBN 978-3-19-001206-0 (DE)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-VSY-P Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme B-OBN-P Bachelor's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme N-OBN-P Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective
  • Programme BIT Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Language exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et Mgr. Monika Ryšavá

Syllabus

1. L 1 In contact, using the media, interviews, temporal adverbs
2. L 1 In contact, in German class, adjective declination
3. L 2 Celebrations, invitations, verbs with prepositions
4. L 2 Celebrations, appointments, declining an invitation
5. L 3 On the way, assumptions, relative clauses
6. L 3 mobility, making plans and suggestions
7. L 3 journeys, relative pronouns, relative clauses
8. L 4 Living, shared flat, grammar: "need ... to"
9. L 4 Living, word order, temporal prepositions
10. L 5 Career entry, "if-sentences/ wenn-Sätze"
11. L 5 Career entry, cover letter, subjunctive II
12. L5 career entry, subjunctive II, "um ... zu"-sentences
13. Summary, revision, credit test