Course: Proseminar in Grammar

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Course title Proseminar in Grammar
Course code KGER/KGPS
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hrabcová Tereza, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Present tense and imperative form of irregular verbs 2. Perfect and past perfect tense of regular, irregular, mixed verbs and verbs with strong and weak forms 3. Auxiliary verbs to have and to be in perfect and past perfect - rules for the use 4. Preterit of irregular, regular, mixed verbs and verbs with strong and weak forms 5. Passive 6. Conditional - unreality, potentiality 7. Conditional - indirect speech 8. Adjective declension, participles in attributive position, substantivized adjectives 10. Main clause, word order, basic parts of a sentence 11. Subordinate clause, word order, subordinating conjunctions, relative pronouns 12. Prepositions, prepositional verbs

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to sort out and improve skills in German grammar and develop students´ grammatical competence at least at the B1+ level of the CEFR. This course is designed to practice and is focused on verbs, nouns, adjectives and sentence structure.
Student " knows the German grammatical structure " knows the grammatical terms and can apply them " can define the grammatical categories of inflected parts of speech " can adequately use common grammatical devices and structures.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for this course.

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Credit requirements: Active participation, students must successfully complete required tasks and pass two credit tests (70%).
Recommended literature
  • Geiger, S. / Dinsel, S. Großes Übungsbuch Deutsch - Grammatik. 2009.
  • Hoberg, R./Hoberg, U. Der kleine Duden: Deutsche Grammatik: Eine Sprachlehre für Beruf, Studium, Fortbildung und Alltag: Band 4.. Manheim.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Intercultural German Studies (A14) Category: Philological sciences 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter