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This module is aimed at students with little or no knowledge of German. The module introduces students to various aspects of the German-speaking world as a way of enabling them to begin building communicative abilities in German in all four language modalities: reading, listening, writing, and speaking. Through diverse collaborative and individual tasks and exposure to a range of topics, text types, and different socio-cultural situations, students acquire basic strategies for reading, listening, and writing, and for participating in everyday conversations. In the process they will learn to use major sentence patterns and grammatical features of German as well as high-frequency vocabulary of everyday life. Integration of current technology (e.g., the Internet, e-mail, video) familiarises students with the German-speaking world while at the same time enhancing language learning.

We will work with the following textbook:

• Motive. Kompaktkurs DaF, A1-B1, Kursbuch und Arbeitsbuch. (Ismaning: Hueber Verlag). Please get a copy before classes start.

Recommended other sources:

• Paul Rusch/Helen Schmidt, Einfach Grammatik: Ãœbungsgrammatik Deutsch A1 bis B1 (Berlin:
• Langenscheidt, 2007).
• Martin Durrell, Hammer’s German Grammar and Usage, 5th edition (London and New York: Routledge, 2011). This will prove an invaluable reference text throughout your German studies here at 911±¬ÁÏÍø.
• Sarah Fagan, Using German Vocabulary (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)
• Susan Wilkin (ed.), Oxford German Wordpack, (Oxford: OUP, 2000)

Please note: This module description is accurate at the time of publication. Minor amendments may be made prior to the start of the academic year.