Course Details
German for Beginners 2
Academic Year 2025/26
VYN002 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Grammar: modal verbs, conjugation of the verb "werden", possessive and demonstrative pronouns, ordinal numerals, time expressions, prepositions of place and time, adverbs - comparatives, past tense of auxiliary verbs, imperative, subjunctive
Vocabulary: jobs, asking for directions, travelling - hotels, timetables, body parts and health, clothes and shopping, holidays
Vocabulary: jobs, asking for directions, travelling - hotels, timetables, body parts and health, clothes and shopping, holidays
Credits
2 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit
Entry Knowledge
Students should be familiar with grammar and vocabulary taught in the course VYN001.
Grammar: conjugation of verbs to be, to have and other basic verbs, separable prefixes, personal and possessive pronouns, word order in a sentence, negation, definite and indefinite article, plural, numbers, time expressions, modal verbs können and wollen, prepositions, past tense ("Perfekt")
Vocabulary: meeting others, introducing yourself, family, food and drink, living in a house or a flat, my day, free time, learning
Grammar: conjugation of verbs to be, to have and other basic verbs, separable prefixes, personal and possessive pronouns, word order in a sentence, negation, definite and indefinite article, plural, numbers, time expressions, modal verbs können and wollen, prepositions, past tense ("Perfekt")
Vocabulary: meeting others, introducing yourself, family, food and drink, living in a house or a flat, my day, free time, learning
Aims
Simple communication in everyday situations (elementary topics)
Target level according to the CEFR: A1 higher
The student will be able to communicate in everyday situations (elementary topics). The student will achieve the target level A1 higher according to the CEFR.
Target level according to the CEFR: A1 higher
The student will be able to communicate in everyday situations (elementary topics). The student will achieve the target level A1 higher according to the CEFR.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1st week - revision, modal preposition als, prepositions vor and seit, jobs
- 2nd week - past tense of auxiliary verbs sein and haben, prepositions of time, months of the year, unusual jobs
- 3rd week - modal verb müssen, imperative, sightseeing
- 4th week - modal verb dürfen, commands and requests, sightseeing
- 5th week - possessive pronouns, body parts, health and illnesses
- 6th week - modal verbs sollen, advice and recommendations, appointments
- 7th week - ordinal numbers, prepositions of place, places in the city
- 8th week - other prepositions, giving directions and travelling
- 9th week - prepositions of time, shopping
- 10th week - subjunctive, being polite, booking services
- 11th week - dative, clothes
- 12th week - comparatives of adverbs, pronouns welcher/dieser, shopping
- 13th week - revision