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Course Title: GERMAN WRITTEN EXPRESSION & COMPREHENSION - II UNITS
Credit Units: 2 2 - - - 2
Course Level: UG+PG
Course Code: GRMN121

Course Objectives: To enable students to comprehend and translate texts and enable them to describe and summarize past events. They will also have an idea
of German short texts by studying various Fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers.

Pre-requisites: Functional knowledge of the semester 5

Course Contents/Syllabus:
Weightage (%)
Module I What have you done on the weekend (sharing with friends). 15
Introduction to informal letter/E-Mail writing
Descriptors/Topics
Revision of present perfect tense
Module II Dream professions (Wunschberufe) 15
Descriptors/Topics
conjunctions: wenn, weil & dass
Sentence structure with wenn, weil, dass

Module III Narrate what happened in the past and how it happened : Erzhlen, was oder wie etwas passiert ist 30
Translation techniques of simple sentences
Descriptors/Topics
Simple past tense (Prteritum)
Weak verbs in the simple past tense.
Strong verbs in the simple tense past
Module IV Narration & comprehension of the fairy tale "Rotkppchen" - Once upon a time 20
Descriptors/Topics
Questions and Answers based on the above mentioned fairy tales
Translation of the above mentioned fairy tales
Module V Tell me why
Descriptors/Topics 10
Sentences with "zu+ infinitiv
Module VI Story writing 10
Descriptors/Topics
Short story writing with the given clues/words.

Student Learning Outcomes:

At the end of the course, the students will be able to

write E-mails in German,
describe the incidents of the past
write a short story.

Pedagogy for Course Delivery: The class will be taught using communicative approach.

Assessment/ Examination Scheme:

Theory L/T (%) Lab/Practical/Studio (%) End Term Examination

40% NA 60%

Theory Assessment (L&T):

Continuous Assessment/Internal Assessment End Term
Examination
Components (Drop Mid-Term Exam Project Viva Attendance
down)

Weightage (%) 20 10 5 5 60

Text & Refernces:

Text :
Bock, Gerdes, Mller & Mller, 2008-2009, Themen aktuell 1, Max Hueber Verlag- German Book Centre

References:
Schulz & Griesbach, Deutsch Spachlehre fr Auslnder