Second Foreign Language IV, German
Code: 104617 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500894 Tourism | OT | 4 | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Robert Fritsche
- Email:
- Robert.Fritsche@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- (ger)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Teachers
- Ute Prause
- Eva Maria Auracher
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites.
Objectives and Contextualisation
Content objectives
Students acquire the language content described in section "Content" of this document. They also develop communicative competences in oral and written interaction, being able to do the following at the end of the course.
- Use a range of subordinate conjunctions at level A2/B1.1 in communicative situations.
- Distinguish between and use complex verb forms (A2/B1.1), such as the passive voice, the pluperfect, and the past conditional (Konjunktiv II).
- Use prepositions of time and place at a more advanced level.
- Recognise and use double connectors, such as entweder... oder.
- Decline attributive adjectives.
- Deal with clients in a tourism context, such as the reception, restaurant, or tourist office (speaking and listening).
- Read and write formal texts related to tourism.
Skills objectives
At the end of the course students should have achieved the following.
- Begin to develop a degree of accuracy (in grammar, pronunciation, use of vocabulary, register, etc.) and fluency (speed of production, ability to express ideas and construct discourse), in both speaking and writing, corresponding to level A2+/B1.1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- Make further progress in applying strategies and skills to understand real texts related to tourism.
- Make further progress in applying strategies to continue learning independently outside the classroom.
- Make further progress in using the reference materials needed in language learning, such as those found online.
Competences
- Communicate orally and in writing in three foreign languages within the tourism field and others related to it.
- Develop a capacity for independent learning.
- Implement business communication techniques used by tourism organisations: internal, external and corporate.
- Self-assess the knowledge acquired.
- Use communication techniques at all levels.
- Work in a team.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop a capacity for independent learning.
- Identify vocabulary and grammar resources for use in the tourism sector, in three foreign languages.
- Self-assess the knowledge acquired.
- Use communication techniques at all levels.
- Use the idiomatic expressions typical of the tourism sector in three foreign languages, at upper intermediate level.
- Use tourism resources available on internet, in three foreign languages.
- Vary the discourse patterns used to fit different functions, contexts, media, activities and situations in the workplace.
- Work in a team.
Content
The objectives listed in Section 3 are constantly combined together in the learning process, in keeping with the interconnected nature of language learning. The language content is sub-divided below into functions, grammar, lexis, and phonetics and prosody.
Language functions
The following list includes both general language functions and functions specific to the tourism field.
a) Socialising function
- Use common formulaic expressions of courtesy (to show concern for someone, to offer to do something, etc.).
- Apologise and give explanations.
- Use standard opening and closing formulae in emails and formal letters.
b) Informational function
- Identify and describe people and jobs. Ask for and give information about someone's personality, education and professional competences.
- Ask for and give information about places (immediate surroundings, tourist destinations, heritage sites).
- Ask for and give information on tourist services.
- Ask for and give information about past and future activities or events, whether in everyday life or in the field of tourism.
- Establish the timeframe for an event: when it will begin, how long it will take or has taken, how often it takes place, etc.
- Ask for and give information about someone's physical state (tired, sleepy, thirsty, etc.) and mood (sad, cheerful, scared, etc.).
- Make hypotheses based on known facts or suppositions and express doubts about something being possible.
c) Expressive function (feelings and moods)
- Express feelings of worry, surprise, satisfaction, dissatisfaction, etc.
- Express hope or longing for something.
- Show a liking or dislike for someone.
d) Evaluating function
- Express likes and preferences.
- Show interest or indifference towards someone or towards an idea.
- Make comparisons and choices based on given criteria.
- Express a supposition.
e) Inductive function
- Advise or instruct someone to do something. Agree or refuse to do something.
- Ask someone what he/she intends to do.
- Express willingness, obligation, need or a wish to do something. Ask about the motive and purpose of an action.
- Reassure someone.
- Ask for and give advice.
f) Metalinguistic function
- Ask someone to repeat what he/she has said or what someone else has said.
- Make and answer queries about the meaning of a word or expression, using examples or paraphrasing where necessary.
- Interrupt someone and take one's turn in a conversation.
Grammar
Students must be able to recognise and appropriately use the following grammatical structures.
The clause
- Coordination and subordination.
- Subordinate clauses: temporal clauses (als), causal clauses (weil), conditional clauses, relative clauses, clauses with dass, so... dass, obwohl, bevor, nachdem, bis, , final clauses.
- Order of the components of the clause: Satzklammer, Mittelfeld.
- Coordinate clauses.
Determiners
- Declension of the definite articles: genitive.
- Declension of the negative articles: genitive.
- Declension of the indefinite articles: genitive.
- Declension of the possessive articles: genitive.
Pronouns
- Indefinite: eines, eines, einer; jedes, jedes, jeder.
- Demonstrative: des, des, der; dieses, dieses, dieser.
- Interrogative: welches, welches, welcher, welcher; wessen.
- Possessive in the genitive case: meines, deines, seines, seiner...
Adjective
- Adjective declension: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive.
- Participle functioning as an adjective: geräucherter Schinken.
Verb
- Verb forms: pastperfect tense, passive voice, past conditional (Konjunktiv II), imperfect tense.
- Reflexive verbs: sich ärgern, sich freuen, sich waschen...
- Verbs with a prepositional object: sich freuen auf, sich ärgern über...
- Modal verbs: sollen, müssen, dürfen, können, wollen...
Adverbs
- Dennoch, trotzdem
- The pronominal adverbs: darüber, damit, daran...
Prepositions
- Prepositions of time: in, um, an, bis, von, bei, nach, vor, von... ab.
- Prepositions of direction: in, an, auf, nach, zu, bei, von, aus, an.... entlang.
- Prepositions that take the genitive: trotz, (an)statt, wegen...
Conjunctions
- So... dass, als, bis, obwohl, bevor, nachdem.
Double connectors: entweder... oder,sowohl.... als auch.
Verb forms
- Pastperfect, passive voice, past conditional (Konjunktiv II).
Vocabulary
Students must be able to recognise, name, recall, explain and choose the appropriate term and use it in the communicative situation where it is required. They must also know how to use a dictionary correctly and be able to establish semantic relationships between the different categories. The vocabulary content falls mainly into the following areas:
- Reserving and asking for a table, asking for the bill. Making a complaint (restaurants, hotels).
- Planning tourism programmes: tourist information.
- Describing accommodation: location, appliances and facilities, surroundings.
- Job profiles in tourism: travel agent, receptionist, advisor in a tourist office, guide, customer service, entertainment.
- Profiles of customers and travellers.
- Specific job profiles and tasks: reception, information, organisation, etc. in hotels, campsites, tourist offices, transport companies, etc.
- Feelings.
Phonetics and prosody
Students must recognise and appropriately use the prosodic features (intonation, rhythm, etc.) of the language. They must also recognise and appropriately use the basic sounds and sound symbols of German, as specified below.
1. Sentence stress.
2. Consonant liaison.
3. Stress in compound words.
4. Syllable separation.
5. Sentence intonation.
Methodology
Students are encouraged to use the language actively in class and when practising outside the classroom, to carry out communication tasks similar to those we engage in in real life, in a wide range of situations. To this end, class activities are designed to maximise students' participation and help them take responsibility for their own learning.
The methodology is highly interactive. The students put all their knowledge of the language into practice in order to accomplish a set of oral and written tasks, both of a general nature and specifically related to tourism. In other words, the emphasis is placed on the learning process rather than on theoretical input from the teachers.
(1) Teacher-directed activities include problem solving, exercises, writing tasks and case studies.
(2) Online tutorials comprise not only email exchanges between teachers and students but also the compulsory viewing of the assessment documents that the teachers post in a virtual environment throughout the semester.
(3) Self-directed study involves learning the theory corresponding to the subject plus the (teacher-directed) practical work on problem solving, exercises, case studies and projects (information search, writing, presentation to an audience).
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Classroom-based | 56.5 | 2.26 | 5, 7, 2, 4, 8, 6 |
| Non-classroom based | 56 | 2.24 | 5, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 6 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| On line | 5 | 0.2 | 3 |
| Tutorials classroom-based | 3 | 0.12 | 3 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Activities | 10 | 0.4 | 5, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 8, 6 |
| Theory | 10 | 0.4 | 5, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 6 |
Assessment
Continuous assessment
Students must have attended at least 80% of their classes in order to be included in the continuous assessment process.
Continuous assessment activities
Writing tasks. Between two and five writing tasks are performed. Students may be asked to rewrite their texts to improve on the first version.
Portfolio. The portfolio contains between six and eight tasks, covering the four language skills. These may be done at home or in class. The following are examples of these tasks.
Reading worksheets
Transformation exercises
Mini-tests
Self-assessment sheets
Information search
Production of documents
The days allocated to mid-course exams can be used to work on portfolio activities, such as the listening and reading mini-tests.
Speaking activities. Over the year, between one and two speaking activities will be conducted. These may be individual or group activities, and may take place in the classroom or be recorded and sent in. Depending on the level and the number of students in the class, they could be monologues, dialogues, presentations, etc.
Mid-course tests. One or more mid-course tests are held on the days set aside for this purpose, consisting of a writing test (one or two tasks) and/or a speaking test. These tests are in the same format as the final exam.
Attitude and participation. Students' degree of effort, attitude, and participation are assessed.
Final continuous assessment test. This is a test of writing and speaking. The final continuous assessment test takes place on the same day and time as the final exam.
To pass the course an overall mark of 60% must be obtained. (Activities plus final test).
Final exam
Students who have not joined in the continuous assessmentprocess are entitled to take a final exam that tests the two productive language skills: speaking and writing. In order to pass the exam, and therefore the course itself, a minimum mark of 50% must be obtained in each skill (each part of the exam) and a minimum 60% overall.
Exam resits
Students with an average grade between 3.5 and 4.999 in the final exam or in the final continuous assessment test are entitled to a resit.
The resit consists of repeating the parts of the exam in which the student has obtained a grade below 60%, which is the minimum overall pass grade.
Changing the exam date
Students who cannot take the exam on the set dates due to health, work (trips or other similar obligations) or on compassionate grounds may ask their teacher for a change of date, supplying any necessary documents, and giving notice of at least seven calendar days, except in extreme cases such as accidents. If the request is accepted, the exams must still be taken within the period set by the School of Tourism and Hotel Management.
Further points regarding assessment
No level certificates of any kind are issued.
Students registered on Alemany IV wishing to sit the B1 certification exam can do so.
To pass, an overall mark of 60% must be obtained.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attitude and participation | 10% | 0 | 0 | 5, 7, 2, 6 |
| Final exam | 40% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 5, 7, 2, 6 |
| Mid-course tests | 10% | 1 | 0.04 | 5, 7, 2, 6 |
| Portfolio | 20% | 5 | 0.2 | 5, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 6 |
| Speaking activities | 5% | 0.5 | 0.02 | 5, 7, 2, 8, 6 |
| Writing tasks | 15% | 1.5 | 0.06 | 5, 7, 2, 6 |
Bibliography
Grammar
Level A1 – B1
Andreu Castell, Brigitte Braucek: Gramàtica bàsica de la llengua alemanya – con ejercicios, Editorial Idiomas - Hueber
Level A1 – C2
Brigitte Corcoll, Roberto Corcoll: Programm – Gramática A1-C2. Alemán para hispanohablantes - Herder
Brigitte Corcoll, Roberto Corcoll: Programm – Ejercicios A1-C2. Alemán para hispanohablantes - Herder
Andreu Castell: Gramática Lengua Alemana – explicaciones - Editorial Idiomas – Hueber
Andreu Castell, Brigitte Braucek: Gramática Lengua Alemana – ejercicios, Editorial Idiomas - Hueber
On line
Networked multimedia materials for learning.
Websites recommended by the teachers.
Dictionary
Langenscheidts Universalwörterbuch: Diccionario Moderno Alemán Spanisch-Deutsch/Deutsch-Spanisch – Langenscheidt
Langenscheidts Universalwörterbuch: Katalanisch: Katalanisch-Deutsch / Deutsch-Katalanisch - Langenscheidt