Course outline – 30 weeks
Language: German
Level: 3
Course book: A2.1 Schritte International 3 Neu Kursbuch + Arbeitsbuch mit CD zum Arbeitsbuch, Deutsch als Fremdsprache by by Silke Hilpert, Daniela Niebisch, ,
Sylvette Penning-Hiemstra, Franz Specht, Monika Reimann, Andreas Tomaszewski. Hueber Verlag (2016).
ISBN – 9783193010841
Please note that there is an online placement test available for Schritte International.
Test 1 is for Schritte 1& 2, Test 2 for 3&4 and Test 3 for Schritte 5&6. You can copy the link below and do the test. You should get the results immediately.
https://www.hueber.de/schritte-international-neu/einstufungstest
 Topics and vocabulary                                  Grammar                                             Communicative objectives
    Travel/ holidays Family            •   Conjunction                                       •    Talking about holidays
        and family tree                •   Present perfect of separable / non                •    Introducing the family tree
           Lifestyles                      separable verbs                                   •    Naming reasons for something what happened
                                       •   Names in genitive case                            •    Discussing different life and living styles
                                       •   Prepositions
           At home                     •   Prepositions with accusative and dative           •    Giving details about a town/ city
                                           case                                              •    Explaining directions
                                       •   Directional adverbs                               •    Having conversations with neighbours
                                                                                             •    Reading and writing notes
        Food and drinks                •   Indefinite pronouns in nominative and             •    Talking about habits
                                           accusative case                                   •    Naming things in a household
                                                                                             •    Holding conversations in restaurants
        Work             •   Conjunctive II               •   Giving job advice
                                                          •   Handling business conversations on the phone
                                                          •   Reading and understanding newspaper articles
  Sport and fitness      •   Reflexive verbs              •   Giving health advice
                         •   Verbs with prepositions      •   Expressing interests/ feelings
                                                          •   Asking for information on the phone
                                                          •   Understanding advice from experts
Education and carrier    •   Simple past of modal verbs   •   Talking about one’s education/ school system
                         •   Conjunction “dass”           •   Reading and understanding different course offers
                                                          •   Understanding an interview
Celebrations and gifts   •   Dative object                •   Talking about and gathering gift ideas
                         •   Position in the sentence     •   Expressing suggestions/ wishes
                                                          •   Planning a celebration