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Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
German Language and Translation
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
Level A2+ in oral and written expression and comprehension.
Objectives
Contents The course allows students to broaden and deepen the knowledge acquired in the first year of studies with reference to German language and linguistics. It deals with morphological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of German. It also deals with the issue of developing students’ linguistic and communicative competences according to level B1+ (CEFR).
Extended Syllabus 1. Verbs (weak, strong and irregular verbs):
- indicative future perfect;
- perfect infinitive active and passiv; haben. zu / sein. zu + infinitive; brauchen + infinitive;
- present and past participle; gerund and gerundive;
- Konjunktiv I, Konjunktiv II;
- passive;
- modal and semi modal verbs
2. Clauses:
- temporal sentences with nachdem and bevor;
- implicit dependent clauses;
- desiderative sentences;
- comparative sentences;
- conditional clauses;
- Partizipialkonstruktionen
3. Reported speech
4. Text
Recommended Bibliography BASIC TEXTS (Lectures):
- M.G. Saibene, Grammatica descrittiva della lingua tedesca.
Nuova edizione aggiornata, Roma, Carocci, 2002.
- C. Di Meola, La linguistica tedesca. Un’introduzione con esercizi e bibliografia ragionata, Roma, Bulzoni, 2014.
Teaching Methods Lectures (54 h);
self study (171 h)
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Written and oral exam
Written exam: 1) grammar: multiple choice, true/false, cloze tests; 2) reading comprehension: multiple choice, true/false, cloze tests; 3) a short composition; 4) listening: multiple choice, true/false, cloze tests.
Oral exam: 1) conversation in German; 2) oral test (in Italian, German or English) about the content-specific topics discussed during the lectures.
Contacts/More Information In order to aid students to get the appropriate language skills, the course will be integrated with Language Labs organized by the teacher and the Centro Linguistico di Ateneo.