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Communicate on holiday or make small-talk with your in-laws with our online Elementary German course. Delivered online over three modules.

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German Elementary - Level 2 Course overview

Taught over three modules, this German elementary course will cover a wide variety of topics to improve your reading, writing, speaking and listening skills.

You will work in pairs or small groups to describe your daily routine, talk about your career and plans for the holidays. New forms of grammar will include reflexive verbs, modal verbs in the past tense, conjunctions, prepositions, relative clauses and the passive voice.

You’ll build your understanding of current social and political affairs in Germany so preparing you for in-depth conversations with native speakers.

You will work towards CEFR A2/B1 level of the Common European Framework Reference of language learning.

Who is it for?

You should have around 60 hours of prior formal learning or be able to communicate at CEFR A1/A2 level. If you may have completed our German beginners syllabus or have a German GCSE this is a good place to continue. See the eligibility section for more details.

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Timetable

The full elementary course includes 60 hours of online learning and is taught across three modules.

Benefits

  • Delivered by a qualified German speaker
  • Interactive and varied learning techniques
  • Awarded a City St George’s, University of London certificate.

What will I learn?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • share personal details
  • describe your daily work and home life
  • discuss the German education system
  • tell someone about future activities
  • talk about your career choices and work
  • understand and discuss leisure trends and lifestyles
  • debate negative and positive aspects of work
  • understand and format a standard CV
  • talk about Berlin and its attractions
  • plan a weekend break
  • discuss Berlin’s past and present, and national stereotypes
  • discuss trends in food and eating in Germany
  • talk about political systems and parties
  • compare how life has changed between generations
  • discuss environmental issues
  • give pros and cons of an opinion piece
  • describe your media habits.

Grammatical Structure

  • revision of perfect tense (regular and irregular)
  • revision of dative case in a sentence
  • prepositions
  • reflexive verbs
  • infinitive plus zu
  • modal verbs in the past tense
  • the verb werden
  • ordinal numbers
  • conjunctions
  • prepositions and cases
  • changing prepositions
  • genitive
  • adjective endings
  • relative clauses
  • subjunctive
  • passive voice
  • indirect question sentences.

Assessment and certificates

You will receive a Certificate of Completion from City St George’s, University of London, along with a digital badge for your LinkedIn profile.

To qualify, you must attend at least 70% of classes.

Teaching

Classes are highly interactive and include:

  • Small group work and role-play
  • Listening to audio materials (e.g. radio clips)
  • Reading articles and texts
  • Watching video content
  • Digital learning tools to support your progress

You’ll also explore German culture, current affairs and traditions alongside language learning.

Eligibility

It is the right level if one of the following applies:

  • you can communicate at A1/A2 level, according to the Common European Framework Reference of languages
  • you have completed our German beginners course, or equivalent elsewhere (at least 60 hours of formal study)
  • You have GCSE German.

Please do reach out to our team if you’re not sure which level is right for you.

You should already be able to:

  • describe what happened at the weekend
  • give directions and say where things are
  • describe people, places and events
  • use the perfect tense (regular and irregular), perfect tense with sein and haben
  • understand comparatives and superlatives
  • use changing prepositions
  • Understand adjective endings.

Additional requirements

To enrol onto the Elementary German course, you must:

  • be age 18 or over
  • have basic IT skills and a reliable internet connection to access lessons and course materials.

English requirements

You will need a good level of spoken and written English to enrol on this course.

Tutor

  • Boris Born

    Boris Born has an MA in German and Philosophical Studies (Berlin, 1988). He has been teaching German in various institutions in London such as London Metropolitan University (formerly the University of North London), in language schools, and at City St George's, University of London since 1998.

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