German Language Course (DaF) B1.2

A BIGS workshop offered by the Bonn Graduate Center in cooperation with the International Office.

This competence based and action-oriented language course is aimed at doctoral students who want to cope with everyday life in German and, in particular, want to become competent in academic and work situations. Participants will attain the level B1.2 of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference).

The course is co-financed by STIBET-funds from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Online Workshop

Fridays, from 8.15 a.m. till 9.45 a.m.

Starting from April 14, 2023, ending July 14, 2023

In addition, e-learning “vocabulary-package“ for self-learning totaling 20 hours

Please register your interest in this workshop with your BIGS coordinator by March 1, 2023

Trainer

Silke Gräfinghoff

Language

English

Location

Online

Target Group

Doctoral students

Track(s)

This course is not offered within a track

Certificate

Participants who complete the entire course will receive a certificate confirming their attendance at the end of the semester. Missing two lessons will be excused.

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Description

Key skills

Development of social and intercultural communicative competence in German, strengthening of learner autonomy and media competence.

Course book

The course book Kontext B1.2+ is used:

Print edition: Kontext B1.2+: Kurs- und Übungsbuch mit Audios und Videos | Klett Sprachen (klett-sprachen.de)

Digital edition: Kontext B1.2+ - Digitale Ausgabe mit LMS: Kurs- und Übungsbuch mit Audios/Videos und interaktiven Übungen | Klett Sprachen (klett-sprachen.de)

Requirements
The German as a Foreign Language Section will send you an invitation to an onSET online language placement test to the email address you register with. Based on the results of the placement test, we will register you for the appropriate course.

Content

Participants will attain the level B1.2 of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) and upon completion of the course will be able to:

Understand the main points of clear standard statements on familiar matters regularly
encountered in work, study or leisure-related topics,
Deal with most situations likely to arise while traveling in an area where the language is
spoken,
Produce connected texts on topics that are familiar or of personal and business interest,
Describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief,
Writing a longer email to a public authority, summarising the key elements of a longer text – orally and written,
Holding a prepared presentation on an everyday or work/study topic, describing graphs, statistics or diagrams.