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FL10153: German lower intermediate (part 1)

Academic Year: 2018/9
Owning Department/School: Foreign Languages Centre
Credits: 3      [equivalent to 6 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 60
Level: Certificate (FHEQ level 4)
Period:
Semester 1
Assessment Summary: CW 100%
Assessment Detail:
  • Coursework - Reading (CW 25%)
  • Coursework - Writing (CW 25%)
  • Coursework - Listening (CW 25%)
  • Coursework - Speaking (CW 25%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Reassessment not allowed
Requisites: Before taking this module you must take FL10149 or equivalent.
Description: NB. Students wishing to take this unit should visit the for information regarding enrolment.
Aims:
The course aims to further encourage students to broaden the range of factual and expressive language functions required to communicate in a variety of situations, to acquire confidence in selecting appropriate language to achieve a range of everyday tasks and to introduce them to some colloquial expressions. The course aims to increase students' awareness of cultural information and social conventions in countries where the target language is spoken.

Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the course, students are able to:
* Enter unprepared into conversation on topics that are familiar, of personal interest or pertinent to everyday life.
* Give detailed information on personal experiences
* Briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans
* Understand the main points of clear standard speech on familiar matters
* Understand text that consists mainly of high frequency everyday language
* Write short connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest using basic structures accurately.

Skills:
Speaking, Reading, Listening and Writing in the target language - all assessed
Interpersonal skills, communication, team skills - facilitated
IT skills - facilitated
Intercultural skills - facilitated and taught
Autonomous learning - facilitated
Â鶹´«Ã½ and organisational skills - facilitated
Cognitive - taught.

Content:
The course continues to build on the skill base achieved, for example in the Complete Beginners and Post Beginners units, through the four core skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing. The course reproduces real-life scenarios and encourages the spontaneous use of language when talking about family, hobbies, work, travel and recent personal events. It follows a graded programme of study. Previous learning is consolidated and additional linguistic structures and phrases are introduced and practised enabling students to refer to the past, the present and the future and to link a series of discrete elements into a linear sequence.
Programme availability:

FL10153 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.

Foreign Languages Centre

Notes:

  • This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2018/19 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2019/20 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2018/19.
  • Programmes and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
  • Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
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