COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FOREIGN LANGUAGE I (GERMAN)

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YDA 1007 FOREIGN LANGUAGE I (GERMAN) COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2

Offered By

SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

OZAN GÖKSU ZÖHRE

Offered to

Environmental Engineering

Course Objective

It is aimed to make students understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance and communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
It is aimed to enhance the students speaking skills and most importantly is to improve their critical thinking skills and give the students the confidence to tackle any situation.
The main objectives of listening are for students to understand the main idea(s) and supporting details of a lecture, to acquire strategies to retain content words and key information from a conversation or from a short lecture and to grasp a speaker's opinion or attitude from a conversation, lecture, or editorial-type presentation.
It is aimed to improve student s German skills using reading and fluency activities. The overall objective is for students to learn to become lifelong readers of German for pleasure and information.
It is aimed to provide students with focus on particular aspects of paragraph writing, such as topics, style, and development, writing support to help them find, orginize, and Express their ideas and language support to help them with vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   ask for or pass on personal details in written form
2   follow speech which is very slow and carefully articulated, with long pauses for him/her to assimilate meaning.
3   understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.
4   communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters to do with work and free time
5   write simple isolated phrases and sentences

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 jn. begrüßen, sich verabschieden, nach dem Namen / Befinden fragen, sich und andere mit Namen vorstellen, Herkunftsland erfragen und nennen / Sprachen benennen
2 W-Fragen, Personalpronomen, Verbkonjugation, Possessivartikel ein Formular ausfüllen Familienmitglieder vorstellen Alphabet, Zahlen
3 Dinge / Mengen benennen, Einkaufsgespräche führen, nach einem Ort fragen, Wohnung beschreiben, Gefallen / Missfallen ausdrücken
4 Ja-/Nein-Frage, Nullartikel, indefiniter Artikel, Negativartikel, Plural der Nomen, definiter Artikel, lokale Adverbien, prädikatives Adjektiv, Negation
5 Wohnungsanzeigen einen Zeitungsartikel verstehen Farben, Gewichte und Maßeinheiten
6 Uhrzeit / Wochentage nennen, Tagesablauf, Wetter / Jahreszeiten/ Himmelsrichtungen beschreiben, Gespräche beim Einkauf und im Restaurant führen
7 trennbare Verben, Verbposition im Satz, Präpositionen, Akkusativ, Ja-/Nein-Frage und Antwort
8 Über ein bestimmtes Thema eine Anzeige schreiben Anzeigen/ Wetterbericht lesen Anrufbeantworter verstehen, über Freizeit und Hobbys sprechen
9 Mid-Term Exam
10 Fähigkeiten / Absichten ausdrücken, von Ereignissen in der Vergangenheit berichten
11 Modalverben, Satzklammer, Perfekt mit haben u. sein
12 seinen Willen äußern Kurze u. Einfache Texte in der Vergangenheit verstehen über Lernziele und Lerngewohnheiten sprechen
13 Berufe benennen und erfragen, Anweisungen und Ratschläge geben, über Erlaubtes / Verbotenes und Regeln sprechen
14 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Schritte International

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures
2. Communicative Approaches

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. The student will write simple isolated phrases and sentences. Longer texts contain expressions and show coherence problems which make the text very hard or impossible to understand.
2. The student will understand very short, simple texts a single phrase at a time, picking up familiar names, words and basic phrases and rereading as required.
3. The student will produce simple mainly isolated phrases about people and places.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Attending at least 85:% of lecturers is mandatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 24 2 48
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 60

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.35
LO.45
LO.55