Course detail
German 3
FSI-N3 Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester
The course is intended to teach German as a foreign language at general level. Also dealt with is the language for specific purposes. It is focused on practical, everyday communication for the international workplace.
Language of instruction
German
Number of ECTS credits
2
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
The course N3 is intended for intermediate students with knowledge on level A1. It doesn´t follow up on the course N2.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Course-unit credit is awarded on condition of having attended the seminars actively, worked out assigned tasks and passed a credit test. 60% points at the credit test as minimum.
Attendance at seminars is compulsory and is systematically checked by the teacher. Students are allowed to miss two seminars. Absence may be in justified cases compensated for with the consent of the teacher.
Aims
The aim of the course is to equip students for real-life tasks, such as describing problems or giving instructions, that arise in a wide range of technical occupations. Students will be able to communicate in more difficult situations using relevant language means, and master the elementary terms of the language for specific purposes.
Students will be made familiar with general vocabulary for the workplace and grammar for more difficult and independent everyday communication.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-OBN-P: Common Offer, Master's, elective
Programme B-OBN-P: Common Offer, Bachelor's, elective
Programme BIT: Information Technology, Bachelor's
specialization BITP: Information Technology, elective
Type of course unit
Language exercise
26 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
1. L 1- Languages and biographies,
subordinate clauses with "weil"
2. L 1- Languages, comparisons "wie", "als", superlatives
3. L 2- My family, possessive article in the dative
4. L 2- Family, celebration, invitations
5. L 3- Travelling and mobility, planning a trip,
booking a trip,express assumptions
6. L 3- Travelling, modal verb "soll", sentences with "aber", "oder"
7. L 3- Station 1- profession translator, repetition: grammar
8. L 4- Hobbies, reflexive pronouns, temporal adverb, phrasal verbs
9. L 4- Association, express emotions, indefinite pronouns, verb "mögen"
10. L 5- Media in everyday life, messages
11. L 5- Indirect questions, complaints, adjectives without articles
12. L 5- Media, advertisements
13. Summary, revision, credit test