German: Beginner Intensive

Beginners

Introductory course to German. This course is for those with no previous knowledge of German. Communicative context, with videos, audio, texts and conversation.

• Postgraduates in Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Materials Science, Computer Laboratory and Chemistry, Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership and Judge Business School.
• Further details regarding Engineering Language Unit's eligibility criteria are available

Number of sessions: 9

• Alphabet
• Use of Questions
• Word order
• Definite and indefinite articles, plurals, negation of nouns
• Present tense and past of 'haben' and 'sein', separable verbs
• Cardinal and ordinal numbers, some prepositions
• Modal verbs

To be able to:

• Meet and greet people, introduce yourself (name, age, job, nationality, domicile)
• Describe a room and its equipment
• Talk about languages and countries
• Describe a house/flat
• Tell the time, make and cancel appointments
• Talk about professions
• Talk about food (shopping for food, likes and dislikes)

Class work and individual study

Course syllabus is available

Nine sessions of two hours

Yearly

• French: Beginner Intensive
• French: Business Lower
• French: Business Intermediate
• French: Intermediate Intensive
• French: Intermediate
• German: Intermediate Intensive
• German: Advanced Intensive
• German: Beginner Intensive
• CLIC: Japanese: Beginner Intensive
• Japanese: Advanced
• Japanese: Intermediate Intensive
• CLIC: Chinese: Beginner (Intensive)
• Chinese: Advanced Intensive
• CLIC: Chinese: Intermediate (Intensive)
• CLIC: Spanish: Beginner (Intensive)
• Spanish: Intermediate Intensive
• Spanish: Advanced Intensive