German B2

TEACHING UNIT 1. LEXICAL-SEMANTIC CONTENT

1. Activities of Daily Living.
2. Food.
3. Goods and services.
4. Science and technology.
5. Climate, atmospheric conditions, and the environment.
6. Shopping and commercial activities.
7. Customs and Traditions (festivals, etc.)
8. Physical description.
9. Education.
10. Personal identification.
11. Language and Communication.
12. Human, social, and workplace relationships.
13. Health and Physical Care.
14. Free time and leisure.
15. Travel.
16. Housing, Home, and Environment.

TEACHING UNIT 2. GRAMMAR TOPICS

1. Prayer
2. Names
3. Adjectives and adverbs. Complete declension of adjectives.
4. Pronouns
5. Verbs
6. Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases
7. Conjunctions and Conjunctive Phrases
8. Prepositions and Postpositions

TEACHING UNIT 3. SPELLING CONTENT

1. Homophones and homographs. Further discussion on the correct use of punctuation marks: semicolons; quotation marks; ellipses.
2. Use of Capital Letters, Italics, and Underlining
3. Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols (a selection of the most important ones).
4. Auxiliary signs

TEACHING UNIT 4. PHONETIC AND PHONOLOGICAL CONTENT

1. Phonetic stress in isolated lexical items: primary stress and secondary stress.
2. Stress and unstressed syllables in the phrase.
3. Expressive intonation.

TEACHING UNIT 5. SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTENT

1. The selection and use of greetings, introductions, and farewells, especially in formal contexts.
2. The selection and use of formal, informal, and familiar forms of address.
3. Conventions regarding speaking turns.
4. Forms of address.
5. Proverbs, idioms, and quotes.
6. Differences and Assessment of Registration Formulas and Geographical Varieties.

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.