Syllabus

Title
6185 Wirtschaftskommunikation Deutsch 1
Instructors
Mag.Dr. Florian Fritz
Contact details
Type
PI
Weekly hours
3
Language of instruction
Deutsch
Registration
01/26/17 to 02/12/17
Registration via LPIS
Notes to the course
Dates
Day Date Time Room
Monday 03/06/17 06:15 PM - 09:30 PM TC.4.13
Monday 03/13/17 06:15 PM - 09:30 PM TC.4.13
Monday 03/20/17 06:15 PM - 09:30 PM TC.4.13
Monday 03/27/17 06:15 PM - 09:30 PM TC.4.13
Monday 04/03/17 06:15 PM - 09:30 PM TC.5.03
Monday 05/08/17 06:15 PM - 09:30 PM TC.4.13
Wednesday 05/17/17 06:15 PM - 09:30 PM TC.4.13
Monday 05/22/17 06:15 PM - 09:30 PM TC.4.13
Monday 05/29/17 06:15 PM - 09:30 PM TC.4.13
Monday 06/12/17 06:15 PM - 09:30 PM TC.4.13
Monday 06/19/17 06:15 PM - 09:30 PM TC.4.13
Contents

Content – Topics covered / Vocabulary / Grammar:

1. Introducing each other; Questions and answers; Spelling; Numbers 1st and 2nd person; Present tense; personal and interrogative pronouns

2. Describing people (other students, family); Describing the classroom //3rd person present; Verbs ''to be'' and ''to have''; 1st/2nd/3rd persons; possessive pronouns; adjectives; nominative and accusative articles

3. Restaurants; Cafés; Menus; Recipes // Verbs with stem vowel shift; Indefinite article

4. Shopping at clothing stores; At the market; Articles of clothing and food (vocabulary list) // Adjective endings with the definite article

5. Daily schedules; Telling time; Days of the week // Inversion; Separable verbs

6. Leisure activities; Months; Seasons // Modal verbs

7. Holidays and travel; Hotels // Perfect forms of regular and irregular verbs

8. Austria; Vienna; Asking directions // Prepositions taking the accusative, dative; Two-way prepositions

9. At home; Rooms; Furniture; Household appliances // Noun plurals; Dative articles

10. Body parts; Sickness and diseases; Doctors // Comparative and Superlative

11. Professions; A company’s organizational chart // Verbs in subordinate clauses; Passive voice

Learning outcomes
Everyday survival, participating in simple conversations and discussions. Achieving an overall competence level of approximately A1 in terms of CEF;
Teaching/learning method(s)

The course will involve interactive teaching methods.

Assessment

Criteria for a Passing Grade: A minimum score of 60% in total

    Grading scheme:

    1. Attendance:     10%
    2. Homework:      20%
    3. Midterm test:  30%
    4. Final test:      40%


    Prerequisites for participation and waiting lists
    (Prerequisites:) none
    Readings
    1 Author: Friederike Jin & Joachim Schote
    Title:

    Pluspunkt Deutsch (Österreich) A1

    Kursbuch Deutsch als Zweitsprache


    Publisher: Cornelsen
    Remarks: Kursbuch
    Year: 2015
    Recommendation: Essential reading for all students
    Type: Book
    Availability of lecturer(s)

    Florian Fritz: florian.fritz@wu.ac.at

    For any organisational questionsplease contact wirtschaftsdeutsch@wu.ac.at

    Other

    Course Materials:

    Copies will be distributed by the course instructor; the book can be purchased in the facultas management book store on Campus. There are several copies of the book in the language ressource center.

    Unit details
    Unit Date Contents
    1

    Presentation of teacher und students - getting  to know each other

    Greeting

    Spelling

    Numbers

    2

    Describing the students of the course

    Talking about family

    Grammar: Verbs and personal pronouns

    3

    Restaurant Terminology

    Grammar: Verbs like "essen", "sprechen", "nehmen"

    4

    Shopping

    Grammar:Adjective endings, colours

    5

    All about Austria

    All about Vienna

    To ask your way round

    Grammar: prepositions

    6

    Parts of the body

    Illnesses

    Going to the Doctor

    Grammar: cases, articles, superlative

    7

    Times of the day

    The week

    Hours

    Grammar: modal verbs

    8

    Leisure Time

    Months

    Grammar. prepositions with dative, accusative

                    present perfect

    9

    Professions

    Telefon conversation

    Grammar. structure, position of the verb

    10 Talking about the test and final questions
    11 Final written test
    Last edited: 2016-12-06



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