This course is addressed to all who want to start learning German. In October we start from zero for absolute beginners and then continue throughout the academic year to complete the A1 level in June.
If you want to join this course in January, you will have to speak with the teacher and commit to catching up with any work you may have missed.
EUI language courses are free for EUI PhD and LL.M. researchers, but most other EUI members have to pay a nominal fee.
German 101
Communication and Grammar skills
CEFR level A1
All EUI members
Length of course
24 weeks, 72 hours divided into 3 terms:
| First term: |
14 October
6 December 2024
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8 weeks
24 hours
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| Second term: |
13 January
21 March 2025
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10 weeks
30 hours
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| Third term: |
7 April
16 May 2025
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6 weeks
9 hours
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Time
First term starts on 16 October 2024
Tuesday: 13:30 - 15:00
Friday: 15:30 - 17:00
A1: Communication and grammar skills
By the end of the course students will
- have reached level A1 of the Common European Framework
- be able to interact in a simple way
- be able to introduce themselves and name their field of research
- understand and use familiar everyday expressions and basic phrases
- be able to read and write short texts with simple phrases/sentences
Course contents
Course materials are provided by the German teacher.
The course includes work on the following:
- Reading: short informative texts and notices on topics of personal and professional interest; texts that consist of general language and academic-related language (research topic, academic professions and positions)
- Writing: short and simple texts, fill in forms, simple requests and answers
- Listening: understand familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases, recognize concrete information in dialogues and announcements
- Speaking: introducing oneself, asking and answering questions on familiar topics, simple social conversations
- Basic grammar and syntax
Learning methods and activities
In this course we work with various methods such as the cognitive, constructivist, audio-lingual/ audio-visual and communicative approach in order to train all the language skills (reading, listening, speaking, writing) and to suit the needs of different types of learners.
Activities in and out of class include:
- building up your vocabulary
- grammar and syntax exercises
- reading and writing short texts
- listening and speaking exercises (phonetics and intonation)
- conversations, videoclips, online materials
Silke Tork unterrichtet Deutsch am Sprachenzentrum des EUI. Nach dem Abschluss ihres Studiums der Komparatistik, Philosophie und Deutschen Philologie als Magistra Artium (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2006) spezialisierte sie sich in Deutsch als Fremdsprache (DaF) mit dem Fokus akademische Sprachkompetenzen (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2009). Im Anschluss war sie fünf Jahre lang als DAAD-Lektorin in Sizilien, an den Universitäten von Catania und Palermo, tätig. Zurück in Deutschland führte sie ein Forschungsprojekt am Test DaF-Institut durch und verfügt auch über Prüfzertifikate für Test DaF und Goethe-Prüfungen. Bevor sie 2016 zum EUI kam, unterrichtete sie Deutsch am Sprachenzentrum der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, wo sie ein Studienmodul zur Erleichterung des Hochschulzugangs für Geflüchtete entwickelte.
Ihre aktuellen Forschungsinteressen sind: akademische Lesekompetenzen (für deutschsprachige Texte), translanguaging, multimodale Interaktion und Mehrsprachigkeit.
Page last updated on 23 October 2024