Integrated skills assessment

1 - Practical skills assessment - 60

Reading into Writing task

2 - Set exercises - 40

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This course is aimed at students with no prior (or almost non-existent) knowledge of the language. 
<ul><li>Presentation/spelling and pronunciation.  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Informal and formal greetings/ identifying people, their social and work environment </li></ul>
<ul><li>Nationalities and countries, culture and communication in the countries in which German is used as a main language. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Asking for information and descriptions of surroundings, places, people, work situation, formal and informal contexts.  </li></ul>
<ul><li>Talking about personal and others’ possessions, likes and dislikes </li></ul>
<ul><li>Dealing with situations related to a social context and social activities, getting to communicate, meeting people socially. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Numeracy relevant to Media and social activities. </li></ul>
<ul><li>Producing descriptions of people or events in present tenses </li></ul>
<ul><li>Introduction to past events </li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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The course is based on the lecturer’s own material. 

LA1208 - German for Media (beginners)

LA1208-YEAR-PER-ALV1

Classroom activities will include: presentation/input, drilling, role-playing, pair and group work, work on pronunciation and intonation as well as grammar in context and exercises related to writing. Listening to audio clips and watching videos are also an important element in the class room. More comprehensive grammar exercises and reading texts will be set as homework.

German for Media (beginners)

Use basic grammatical structures and vocabulary. 

Knowledge

Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information related to every day’s life and the world of media and social science. 

Work in groups, exchanging ideas and opinions. 

Skills

Engage in analytical and evaluative thinking. 

Use language creatively at basic level for a range of purposes and audiences. This will be expressed through oral and written communication. 

Extract information from written and spoken sources decoding meaning of the material related to media and the social world at a basic level.   

Use a German dictionary/ online resources. 

Summarize written or spoken material in simple written form (e.g. by making notes in the foreign language). 

Review of a culture and practice other than one's own. 

Values and attitudes

Describe in simple terms aspects of your background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need in the context of media and social world. 

An appreciation of the uniqueness of the other cultures. 

Discuss sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance.  

Assess simple, general information from short written sources independently (e.g. adapted magazine/newspaper articles). 

Develop receptive skills (listening and reading) and productive skills (speaking and writing) in a foreign language. 

Analyse notions of German culture as well as media and social topics presented through the content of the course and relevant to the countries where the language is used as mother tongue. 