Course Details

German for Intermediate Students 2

Academic Year 2025/26

VYN006 course is not part of any programme in the faculty

Grammar: relative clauses with prepositions, adjectives as nouns, various subordinate clauses, Partizip I and II used as adjectives, two-piece conjunctions, future tense Futur I, conjunctions bis and indem

Vocabulary: friends, dating and relationships, description of objects and procedures, personal qualities, at work, instructions for use, computers, solving of conflicts, history of Germany, Europe

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 covered in the courses VYN001, VYN002, VYN003, VYN004 and VYN005.
Students should be able to take part in a conversation on common topics and understand easily comprehensible texts and conversations. They should be familiar with verb tenses including the plusquamperfect, declinations of adjectives and pronouns, word order after various conjunctions, conditional sentences, Konjunktiv II. and other grammatical phenomena. They should be able to express themselves in a comprehensible way, avoiding grave mistakes.

Aims

Ability of understanding of more complex texts and listenings,
presentation of information from various spoken and written sources,
spontaneous, fluent and fairly accurate expressing,
fluent and effective using of the language for social, study and working purposes
target level according to the CEFR: B1 higher
The student will be able to understand slightly sophisticated texts and listenings, will be able to present information from spoken and written sources, will be able to express themselves spontaneously and effectively for social, study and working purposes, will achieve the target level B1 higher accrding to the CEFR

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. describing a person; relative clauses
  • 2. conjunction falls; conjunction je - desto
  • 3. Murphy's laws; product description
  • 4. conjunction weder - noch; complaining
  • 5. computers; conjunction als ob
  • 6. instructions and user manuals; conjunction während; conjunction nachdem
  • 7. future tense, future plans
  • 8. preposition innerhalb; preposition außerhalb; good manners
  • 9. conjunctions seit, bevor, bis, indem, ohne dass
  • 10. difficult life situations; preposition außer
  • 11. present subjunctive; life plans
  • 12. indirect speech; European union
  • 13. passive voice with past tenses; politics