Foreign Language llI - German

Subject: 2021/2022 - 1S

Programmes

Hours Effectively Taught

Aims, Skills and Learning Outcomes

Programme

Classes will focus on different subject-matters, directly related to current life and daily routines, such as "language and nationalities", "meeting people", "jobs", "food and drinks", "dialogues at the supermarket, restaurant and hotel", all embracing the main learning skills: listening, reading, writing, speaking.

Specific Topics:
Vocabulary:
1. The city: places, directions
2. Meals: food, drinks, buying at the supermarket
3. Likes and dislikes
4. The House: divisions and furniture
5. Holidays at the Hotel: booking, complaining

Grammar:
1. Revision-work of syntactic structures: the Subject ("Nom."), the Direct Object ("Akk"), the Indirect Object ("Dativ"); verbs and prepositions connected to the use of an indirect object
3. The Imperative
4. demonstratives
5. The Simple past ("Perfekt")

Demonstration of the syllabus coherence with the curricular unit's learning objectives

The different subject-matters should enable students to engage in different communicative situations, orally and written. Mainly, they shall be encourage to gain further autonomy on speaking and understanding oral messages and conversations, according to specific contexts and chosen debating topics. 

Main literature

Supplementary Bibliography

Learning Methods

We will promote the resot to different learning strategies and methods, such as group-work, presentations, oral interaction, homework assignments, reading aloud, written tests and work-projects.

Assessment Components

Avaliação distribuída com exame final

Continuous Assessment

- 2 written tests (35% each)
- written assignment / e-learning platform (2x) (30%)


Under Degree Regulations:

1. The effective presence of students in the classes will be registered and, if the number of absences per student exceeds 30% of the total number of contact sessions provided for each course unit, he/she will be automatically transferred to the final evaluation of the normal season.

2. In the written tests and in the defined evaluation elements it is necessary to obtain the minimum grade of 7,5 values.

3. If the student is absent or has a grade lower than 7,5 values in the tests or evaluation elements referred to in the previous number, he/she will be automatically transferred to the final evaluation of the normal season.

4. If the student is absent or has a grade lower than 7,5 values in the second written test (held on the same date as the final written test of the normal season), he/she may apply for evaluation at the appeal season.

Final Exam

- final exam (100%)

Under Regulation:
The practical or theoretical-practical work (s) referred in b) in the number 2 of the 30º article may also be considered, with a weighting corresponding to half of that considered in the context of continuous assessment, provided that the student communicates such intention to the teacher through the completion of a specific form to be made available by the teacher at the individual written test day.

Demonstration of the coherence between the teaching methodologies and the learning outcomes

The different subject-matters will be intensified with the resort to different learning strategies and methods, such as group-work, presentations, oral interaction, research assignments, reading aloud, and work-projects. In other words, students will be asked to resort to various learning strategies, in order to develop their speaking and writing skills through the use of adequate vocabulary, grammar rules and syntactic structures.