German Level 6

German Level 6

Course Description

Level 6 Classes: This course will suit people who have recently completed Level 5 or who can communicate with a degree of confidence not only about themselves and their immediate environment, but also about other topics of general interest, expressing views and opinions in the process. You may be asked to give a presentation on a topic of your choice in front of the class. This is not compulsory. 

In Level 6, we work at the B1 level of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages*). 

Term duration 10x weekly 2-hour classes, Monday evenings, 6:15pm to 8:15pm

Key Language

Communicative themes may cover: 

• Discussion of holidays and leisure activities  

• Current events 

• Literature and culture in some German-speaking countries 

• Expressing aims and intentions, views and opinions 

• Idioms 

• Feature film screening and film discussion 

Key grammatical points may include: 

• Revision of complex sentences and sentence connectors (e.g. um ... zu, damit, ohne zu, statt zu) 

• Expressing intention with zu+Infinitiv – e.g. Ich habe vor, morgen meine Arbeit einzureichen. 

• Consolidation of relative clauses 

• Compound nouns 

• Prepositions and their uses   

• Verbs with prepositions – e.g. Er interessiert sich für diesen Film. 

• Pronominal adverbs and question words – e.g. Er interessiert sich dafür, den Film im Kino zu sehen. - Wofür interessiert er sich? 

• Passive voice 

• Verb werden and its uses 

• Modal particles – e.g. Ruf mich doch mal an! 

CEFR levels indicated on our level descriptors are not a guarantee that you can take the associated German exam for this level. If you would like to take an external German exam, for instance the Goethe-Zertifikat B1 (there is an exam centre in London), please speak to your tutor to discuss what they think would be most appropriate. 

See https://uealanguageprogramme.org/ for more information