Uni-Deutsch B2.2

Communicative activities

• discuss difficulties with listening comprehension with others
• share experiences and tips on working out vocabulary
• summarise video content

Topics

• Audio and video formats at university and in everyday life
• Sustainability in urban areas: “green” cities
• Listening strategies

Grammar, word formation and pronunciation

• Nouns with prepositions
• Past tense forms
• Phonetic transcription
• Sentence stress

Communicative activities

• express a lack of knowledge
• discuss culturally different forms of politeness
• make contact with a volunteering organisation
• pass on information about volunteering

Contextual knowledge

• Test: which volunteer role suits me?
• Federal Voluntary Service (Bundesfreiwilligendienst)

Topics

• Volunteering while studying
• Information and research on volunteering and voluntary commitment during study
• Making contact with a volunteering organisation
• Forms of politeness in different cultures

Grammar, word formation and pronunciation

• The weak noun declension (“n-Deklination”)
• Nominalisation with suffixes

Communicative activities

• prepare for a talk
• give a short oral presentation

Topics

• Study-life balance
• Body language and breathing
• Language for presenting and strategies for giving talks
• “Brain food”: healthy eating during study

Grammar, word formation and pronunciation

• Noun-verb collocations
• Suffixation in verb-noun collocations
• Pronunciation of pauses when giving a talk

Communicative activities

• identify difficulties with analogue and digital correspondence
• identify types of letter from the subject line
• understand the key statements in formal correspondence
• help others understand letters and emails

Topics

• Analogue and digital correspondence
• Formalities and standard letter phrases
• Reminders, notices of termination and other letters
• Understanding the content of formal correspondence
• Advice and help with comprehension difficulties

Grammar, word formation and pronunciation

• Prepositions with a genitive complement
• Verbs with fixed prepositions
• Participial attributes with the present and past participle

Communicative activities

• express your point of view
• agree and disagree
• take a position on a talk
• turn notes into a fair copy

Topics

• Sustainability on campus
• Sustainable projects
• Structure and features of linear argumentation
• Sustainability competitions
• Measures for more sustainability in everyday life

Grammar, word formation and pronunciation

• Two-part connectors
• Causal and consecutive expressions in nominal form
• Negation with suffixes and prefixes
• Pronunciation of negation

Communicative activities

• discuss smart technology
• express indecision
• write a written comment
• weigh up arguments for and against orally

Contextual knowledge

• Digital voice assistants

Topics

• Smart technology in everyday life
• Voice assistants
• Pros and cons of smart technology
• A smart speaker in a shared flat?
• Artificial intelligence

Grammar, word formation and pronunciation

• Concessive clauses
• The passive voice and passive substitute forms
• Indefinite pronouns
• Stress on gradable adverbs
• Pronunciation of word stress in loanwords

Communicative activities

• express objective and subjective opinions
• talk about experiences of learning a foreign language
• write a written report on learning German online

Topics

• Digital and analogue learning
• Features of text types
• Experience reports and internship reports
• Structure and language of reports

Grammar, word formation and pronunciation

• Non-finite relative clauses
• Temporal expressions
• Pronunciation of the main stress in compound nouns

Communicative activities

• report other people’s opinions and statements accurately
• distinguish personal opinions from factual arguments
• make assumptions about future developments
• take a position on controversial content

Topics

• Climate change
• Causes of climate change
• The greenhouse effect and future developments
• Statistics on climate change

Grammar, word formation and pronunciation

• Subjective use of modal verbs
• Reported speech
• Temporal adjectives
• Conditional expressions in nominal form
• Pronunciation of irony