German B1

TEACHING UNIT 1. LEXICAL-SEMANTIC CONTENT

1. Activities of Daily Living.
2. Goods and services.
3. Science and technology.
4. Shopping and commercial activities.
5. Characters: Characterization and Physical Description.
6. Education and Training.
7. Personal identification.
8. Language and Communication: Body language, interacting with people from different cultures.
9. Media: Print media, radio, television, the Internet, and social media.
10. Work and Career
11. Human, social, and workplace relationships.
12. Travel and transportation options.
13. The Human Body: Anatomy, Health, and Personal Hygiene
14. Housing
15. Places
16. Food and Drink
17. Nature and the Environment
18. Leisure and Entertainment
19. Society, the State, and the Functioning of Certain International Organizations

TEACHING UNIT 2. GRAMMAR TOPICS

1. Prayer
2. Nouns and Adjectives
3. Pronouns
4. Verbs
5. Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases
6. Links

TEACHING UNIT 3. SPELLING CONTENT

1. Coexistence of old and new spelling conventions.
2. Degree of adaptation of foreign words.
3. Commonly used abbreviations (i.e., e.g., etc.).
4. Correct use of punctuation marks (parentheses, semicolons, colons, ellipses, and hyphens).

TEACHING UNIT 4. PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL CONTENT

1. Recognition and production of vowels, diphthongs, and consonants
2. Phonetic stress of isolated lexical items (primary stress and secondary stress)
3. Stress and unstressed syllables in the phrase.
4. Expressive intonation.

TEACHING UNIT 5. SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTENT

1. Daily Life
2. Leisure Activities
3. Human and Social Relations
4. Living and Working Conditions
5. Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes
6. Body Language
7. Social Conventions
8. Basic Geography

TEACHING UNIT 6. FUNCTIONAL CONTENT

1. Assertive speech acts or functions related to the expression of knowledge, opinion, belief, and conjecture
2. Commitment-related speech acts or functions, related to the expression of an offer, intention, will, and decision
3. Directive speech acts, which are intended to cause the addressee to do or not do something, whether that something is itself a verbal act or an action of another kind
4. Factual and supportive speech acts or functions, which are performed to establish or maintain social contact and express attitudes toward others
5. Expressive speech acts or functions used to convey attitudes and feelings in response to specific situations

TEACHING UNIT 7. DISCURSIVE CONTENT

1. Textual coherence: The text's suitability for the communicative context.
2. Text Type
3. Textual Cohesion: Internal organization of the text: introduction, body, and conclusion of the textual unit.