Program Overview:
GUC, Center of Continuing Education offers a wide spectrum of German language programs for adult learners, teachers, and young learners. Our courses follow the guidelines of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (A1-C1).
GUCCE aims to provide the learners with the necessary German Language skills that serves their linguistic and communication needs in different fields such as business, tourism, hotel management, Education, and for study and research purposes in Germany.
By communicating the necessary language skills, Cultural awareness, and intercultural competences our learners are enabled to act efficiently in daily activities, Post graduate & undergraduate studies, business and science as well as in everyday situations in the target language.
One of our basic principles is to ensure the maximum of integrated communication.
Program Goals:
This is an intermediate German language course designed for learners with basic knowledge to provide them with a fundamental knowledge of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. Students will develop intermediate communication skills in German and in everyday situations such as handling most situations encountered while traveling in the language area. Can participate without preparation in conversations about topics that are familiar to him, that interest him personally or that relate to everyday issues such as family, hobbies, work, travel, current events. Can start, stop, and end a simple direct conversation on familiar or personally interesting topics. Can repeat parts of what someone has said to ensure mutual understanding.
Program Objective:
The general goals of this course is to:
- Understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.
- Deal with most situations likely to arise while travelling in an area where the language is spoken.
- Produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.
- Describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
- Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.
- Interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.
- Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
Program Outcome:
Reading Skills:
- collect information from travel guides.
- acquire information from newspapers and Online articles, Press release.
- read poems, novel abstracts.
- acquire information from graphs and statistics.
- collect information from flyers, posters, brochures.
- read maps.
- acquire information from websites and blogs.
- understand long texts about different topics.
- acquire information from newspapers and Online articles, Press release.
- acquire information from recipes and statistics.
- understand novels and novel parts.
- understand readers’ comments in newspapers.
- acquire information from blogs.
Speaking and Listening Skills:
- Pronounce the German alphabet.
- Spell words.
- Introduce himself and others (name, country, age, studies, foreign languages, daily routine).
- Get to know someone.
- Greet persons.
- Communicate in German with the teacher in the classroom.
- Use numbers as age, prices, telephone numbers.
- Order something in a café/restaurant and express preferences.
- Pay the bill in a café/restaurant.
- Describe his living situation and his house/apartment.
- Give his opinion about a house/room.
- Describe his personal belongings.
- Tell the time (formal, informal).
- Arrange and cancel appointments and outings.
- Arrange to go out with friends.
- Apologize for being late (punctuality).
- Describe his/her daily routine.
- Say where people live, work, how they go to work and how long the way takes.
- Ask about and describe the way in a building.
- Describe his/her office/work place.
- Enquire about people's profession.
- Tell his/ her dream job.
- Talk about sightseeing in Berlin.
- Ask about and describe the way in a city.
- Tell where and how people spend their vacation and the activities done during the vacation.
- Shop in a supermarket or fresh food market.
- Enquire about the price.
- Express one’s preferences (e.g. food and beverages).
- Describe person’s outfit.
- Make shopping dialogues (clothes).
- Talk about the body parts.
- Conduct a conversation with a doctor.
- Give people advice (concerning health and fitness).
- Talk about weather and climate.
- Describe environmental problems.
- Talk about the future.
- Make statements and assumptions.
- Talk about behavioral rules.
- Apologize for mishaps.
- Comment a situation.
- Report about the past.
- Inform about literature.
- Discuss problems.
- Talk about wishes, fears and dreams.
- Describe movies.
- Make an interview, radio interview.
- Talk about reasons of migration.
- Talk about strangeness.
- Talk about politics in Europe.
- Talk about advantages and disadvantages.
- Demand and comment s.th.
Writing Skills:
- Write a short biographical text about himself (name, address, age, nationality, foreign languages, studies and hobbies).
- Write his/ her daily routine.
- Write a diary.
- Write a postcard/e-mail.
- Give advice and instructions.
- Write about the past.
- Write the end of a story.
- Write about his/ her dreams as a child.
Target audience:
- The course is designed for adult beginners (at least in university stage).
Duration:
3 days/ 150 hrs – (4hrs * 3 times = 12 hrs a week)
“By communicating the necessary language skills, Cultural awareness, and intercultural competences our learners are enabled to act efficiently in daily activities, Post graduate & undergraduate studies, business and science as well as in everyday situations in the target language.”
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