German 5 (FSI-N5)

Academic year 2023/2024
Supervisor: Mgr. et Mgr. Monika Ryšavá  
Supervising institute: ÚJ all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: German
Course type: departmental course
Aims of the course unit:

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.
Learning outcomes and competences:
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.
Prerequisites:

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

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.
Teaching methods and criteria:
Language instruction as an extension of basic professional curriculum.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes:

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.
Controlled participation in lessons:
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.
Type of course unit:
    Language exercise  13 × 2 hrs. compulsory                  
Course curriculum:
    Language exercise

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
Literature - fundamental:
1.

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.
Literature - recommended:
1. 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. 
1. 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
2. E-learningové studijní opory pro předmět Němčina N5.
3. 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.
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
BIT full-time study BITP Information Technology -- Cr 2 Elective 1 2 W
BIT full-time study BITP Information Technology -- Cr 2 Elective 1 2 W
IT-BC-3 full-time study BIT Information Technology -- Cr 2 Elective 1 2 W
N-OBN-P visiting student --- no specialisation -- Cr 2 Elective 2 1 W
B-OBN-P visiting student --- no specialisation -- Cr 2 Elective 1 1 W
N-VSY-P full-time study --- no specialisation -- Cr 2 Elective 2 1 W
M2V-P full-time study M-VSY Production Systems -- Cr 2 Elective 2 1 W