Course detail
German 5
FSI-N5 Acad. year: 2027/2028 Winter semester
The aim of the course is to consolidate and further develop students’ language knowledge and communicative skills in German across all four language skills—reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Emphasis is placed on expanding vocabulary and deepening grammatical knowledge, as well as on their practical application in everyday communication and in handling common communication tasks that students may encounter in various technical professions. Students will acquire the language skills necessary to communicate about personal and social topics, travel, housing, the media, and professional life.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to understand the main points in spoken and written messages concerning familiar topics and respond to them independently, both orally and in writing. They will be able to communicate independently in everyday situations, express plans, suggestions, and opinions, accept or decline invitations, make appointments, and describe situations related to housing and travel. They can participate in conversations about work experience, career opportunities, and professional plans, and apply their acquired language knowledge and skills to handle common communication situations in personal, academic, and basic work settings.
Language of instruction
German
Number of ECTS credits
2
Supervisor
Department
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.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-VSY-P: Production Systems, Master's, elective
Programme B-OBN-P: Common Offer, Bachelor's, elective
Programme N-OBN-P: Common Offer, Master's, elective
Programme BIT: Information Technology, Bachelor's
specialization BITP: Information Technology, elective
Type of course unit
Language exercise
26 hours, compulsory
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 Choice, career entry, "if-sentences/ wenn-Sätze"
11. L 5 Career entry, Career Goals, subjunctive II
12. L5 Career entry, subjunctive II, "um ... zu"-sentences
13. Summary, revision, credit test