Intermediate German: Contemporary Life (Language Proficiency)
Speaking and Writing
- Develops increased ability to sustain interpersonal conversations on concrete topics encountered in every-day life with greater vocabulary, fluency and accuracy.
- Fosters more extended discourse (narration, description).
- Speaking activities range from guided/controlled scenarios to open discussions (controlled practice of structures in context, role plays, interviews, summaries, mini-oral reports).
- Writing assignments range from form-focused practice to informal writing to formal essays (response journals, diaries, letters, short paragraphs, newsgroup/email discussion, guided process essays with peer editing).
Reading and Listening
- Develops ability to understand literary and non-literary texts from wide array of media on relatively familiar topics with some measure of vocabulary help and cultural context provided (pre-reading/listening; reading/listening; post reading/listening tasks).
- Extensive reading: longer works (e.g full-length play or prose work) containing largely familiar sentence patterns and clear underlying structure (e.g. Jugendliteratur, plays, films).