German B1 Course

About this course

Understand frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g., personal/family info, shopping, work) and Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring direct exchange of information

What you’ll learn

• Vacation planning & travel
• Technology & devices
• Lifestyle changes & past events
• Jobs & interviews
• Environment & weather
• Future plans & events
• Friendship & conflicts
• Health, habits & feelings
• Arts & advertisements
• Social projects & politics
• Cities, countries & visits
• Money, banking & globalization

Grammar

• Present, Perfect, and Past tenses (Präteritum)
• Future tense (Futur I)
• Reflexive verbs (accusative/dative)
• Plusquamperfekt
• Verb lassen
• Passive voice (Präsens, Perfekt, Modal verbs)
• Verb + preposition combinations (warten auf, denken an, etc.)
• Case system review (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive)
• Artikelwords and pronouns (irgendwo, ein, welche)
• Noun-verb collocations (eine Entscheidung treffen, etc.)
• Comparative and superlative forms
• Komposita nouns with adjectives
• Adverbs of frequency, time, manner
• Partizip I and Partizip II
• Main and subordinate clause structure
• Conjunctions (obwohl, damit, sobald, während, bevor, bis, etc.)
• Sentences with desto/umso
• Prepositions (dative and genitive)
• Word order with modal verbs and infinitives

B1 Exam Structure (Goethe, TELC, ÖSD formats)

Listening

• Understanding announcements and instructions in various situations
• Understanding conversations in public
• Understanding sound recordings and conversations by native speakers
• Understanding the main ideas from longer conversations, announcements, interviews, and podcasts

Reading

• Comprehending letters and emails, blogs
• To understand information and arguments
• Understanding guidance and navigation in text
• Understanding written instructions
• Identify specific information and overall context

Writing

• Write personal messages, notes for public relations
• To express personal opinions for a specific theme
• Write short texts (e.g. reports, descriptions, arguments)

Speaking

• Talk about personal and professional experiences
• Express opinions, agree/disagree, justify arguments
• Formal discussions and meetings
• Present a topic and discuss it

Course Outcome

• Understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters (work, school, leisure)
• Deal with most travel situations in German-speaking areas
• Produce simple connected text on familiar or personal topics
• Describe experiences, dreams, hopes, and ambitions and give brief reasons or explanations