Term 2 2023-2024

Course Code & Title: GERM2000 B/C/D/E German II

Language of Instruction: German / English Units: 3

Course Description

Building on the knowledge acquired in GERM1000, this course aims to further develop students’
ability to communicate in German in various everyday situations. It also seeks to give students a taste
of German culture and invites them to explore cultural differences. Through intensive practice students
will develop more confidence in interacting in German while further expanding and solidifying their
understanding of the basic grammar and pronunciation patterns.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to deal with some simple daily situations in German such
as
• talking about daily routines and understanding timetables
• talking about asking for directions and giving instructions
• talking about professional life and about where things and places are
• talking about one’s spare time and hobbies
• giving details of apartments and commenting on
• talking about one’s family and asking information about family members

Course Syllabus
Lesson Speech Acts / Topics Grammar Culture

• Understanding time data

• Graz Marathon
• Making appointments
• Newspaper Article
• Talking about one’s daily
Unit 5 • Separable verbs • Times of day
routine
• Daily routine
• Asking for times of departure
• Invitations
• Responding to an invitation

• Talking about sights

• Understanding traffic
• Berlin and its sights
timetables • Possessive articles in
• Layout of German cities
Unit 6 • Talking about means of nominative case
• Navigating German public
transport • Simple past tense of “to be”
transport
• Giving directions
• Travel journal
• Talking about one’s belongings

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 • Talking about professional life
• Orientation in buildings
• Ordinal numbers
• Talking about rooms and • German professional life
Unit 7 • Prepositions im, am, auf,
objects in the office • Professional etiquette
neben
• Greetings in a professional
context

• Saying what one likes and what

one is able to do
• Sports and university life in
• Talking about hobbies and • Simple past tense of the verbs
Tirol, Austria
Unit 8 sports “sein” and “haben”
• Spare time activities and
• Talking about one’s place of • Modal verb “können“
hobbies
study
• Saying where one was

• Compound words
• Talking about flats
• Prepositions im, unter, auf, • Style and spatial arrangement
• Describing and commenting on
Unit 9 zwischen, an, neben, hinter of German homes
flats
• Qualifying adjectives with the • Furnishing of German homes
• Evaluating things
word “zu“ • Tiny Houses

• Describing one’s family • “Perfekt” tense with “haben” • German family businesses
Unit 10 • Talking about a family business • Possessive articles in • Structure of German families
• Asking about family members accusative case • Families with an international
background

Course Components
Teaching Mode
On-site face-to-face interactive classwork: 100%
Learning Activities
Interactive classwork[1] Extra-curricular activities Web-based teaching Homework / Self-study
(hr/day) (hr/course) (hr/day) (hr/day)
in / out class in / out class in / out class in / out class
3 2 0.5 3
M O M M
M = Mandatory / O = Optional
[1] Interactive classwork focuses on student-centered activities such as pair work, group work, role-playing and
student-teacher interaction.

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 Assessment Type
Task nature Description Percentage
Participation and Participation includes preparing for class, arriving on time, attending lessons and 15%
oral expression making active contributions during class, which may be in the form of Q & A,
dialogues etc.
Homework Homework includes completing all exercises in the workbook, completing all 15%
mandatory tasks on the Moodle platform and worksheets and tasks distributed
by the class teacher.
Test 1 Details are given by the course teacher. 15%
Test 2 Details are given by the course teacher. 25%
Oral exam Test in groups: dialogue and questions & answers. 30%

Notes: - Students are required to arrive on time.

- Students are required to attend at least 75% of the class. Treat 75% attendance as the minimum, not the maximum.
- Should a student miss more than 25% of the class, he/she will automatically fail the course.
- If a student is unable to attend, he/she should review the content and homework that are missed and make them up
him/her-self.
- For missed tests, make-up tests will not be arranged unless the student can provide an official supporting
document, such as a medical certificate.

Learning Resources
Required Readings and Course Materials
Hermann Funk, Christina Kuhn, Das Leben A1.1, Kursbuch und Übungsbuch (course and workbook), 2020
Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, Berlin
Hermann Funk, Christina Kuhn, Das Leben A1.2, Kursbuch und Übungsbuch (course and workbook), 2020
Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, Berlin

(Textbooks are available at The Commercial Press bookstore on CUHK campus or as e-books)
Course website: Moodle@Keep
https://moodle.cuhk.keep.edu.hk/

Announcements over the Blackboard site GERM0000

IT Resources:
• Leo online dictionary (English-Chinese, English German www.leo.org/ )
• Beolingus online dictionary (English-German: http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/)
• Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/
• German TV Saga: Jojo sucht das Glück http://www.dw.de/jojo
• German as a foreign language on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UComfd9z6KFVP3nggiME6-7w
• German Music channel on Youtube (suggestions welcome):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2e0DtFeEEi1qOlAnzixOIgOb-elJQqfg

Recommended Readings & Library Resources

• Reimann, Monika (2001) Essential grammar of German with exercises. Ismaning: Hueber
• Dodd, Bill et al. (1996) Modern German grammar: a practical guide. London: Routledge
• Reading practice: Carolin Hinck: Neuanfang mit Schokolade. (Novel at level A1)

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 Assessment Rubrics
General Grade Descriptors:
A B C D F
Outstanding Good performance Satisfactory Barely satisfactory Unsatisfactory
performance in all in all learning performance in the performance in a performance in a
learning outcomes outcomes Can majority of learning number of learning number of learning
and meeting all understand and outcomes. Can outcomes. Can outcomes and/or
specified assessment mostly appropriately partially understand rarely understand failure to meet
requirements. use familiar everyday and use familiar and use familiar specified assessment
Can fully understand expressions and everyday expressions everyday requirements.
General

and appropriately use basic phrases aimed and basic phrases expressions and Cannot understand
familiar everyday at the fulfillment of aimed at the basic phrases aimed and use familiar
expressions and basic needs of a concrete fulfillment of needs at the fulfillment of everyday expressions
phrases aimed at the type. Can ask and of a concrete type. needs of a concrete and basic phrases
fulfillment of needs of answer questions Can ask and answer type. Can hardly ask aimed at the
a concrete type. about personal questions about and answer fulfillment of needs
Can ask and answer details in a suitable personal questions about of a concrete type.
questions about way. Can interact in details in a basic personal Cannot ask and
personal details in a areas of immediate way. Can interact in details. Can poorly answer questions
competent way. Can need or on familiar areas of immediate interact in areas of about personal
interact in areas of topics mostly need or on familiar immediate need or details. Cannot
immediate need or on appropriately. topics partially on familiar topics. interact in areas of
familiar topics appropriately. immediate need or
appropriately. on familiar topics.

Course Schedule (Subject to change):

Week Date Remarks Assignments Content

1 Jan 8-14
2 Jan 15-21 Online add drop (until Jan 21)
Unit 5
3 Department add drop (until Jan 28)
Jan 22-28
(only exceptional cases)
4 Jan 29-Feb 4
5 Feb 5-11 9 Feb (Fr) – 15 Feb (Thu) Lunar New Year Vacation Unit 6
6 Feb 12-18 9 Feb (Fr) – 15 Feb (Thu) Lunar New Year Vacation
7 Feb 19-25
Unit 7
8 Feb 26-Mar 3 Test 1
9 Mar 4-10 4 Mar (Mon) - 9 Mar (Sat) Reading week
Unit 8
10 Mar 11-17 12 Mar (Tue) German Night
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Mar 18-24
Unit 9
12 29 Mar (Fri) Good Friday
Mar 25-31
13 1 Apr (Mon) Easter Monday
Apr 1-7
4 Apr (Thu) Ching Ming Festival Unit 10
14 Apr 8-14
15 Plateau 1,
Apr 15-21 Test 2
Revision
Schedule for oral exam as agreed with course
Apr 22-28 Oral Exam
Lecturer
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Class sections and teachers’ contact details:

Class Time Classroom Weeks Teacher Email

GERM2000B Tu 10:30- 1:15 HYS G06 13 Mr Bernd ESCH [email protected]

GERM2000C Tu 2:30-5:15 LSK 204 13 Mr. Bernd ESCH [email protected]

GERM2000D Wed 2:30-5:15 YIA 408 13 Ms. Annette FRÖMEL [email protected]

GERM2000E Thu 10:30-1:15 ERB 712 12 Ms. Annette FRÖMEL [email protected]

For further information and inquiries, you are welcome to contact the Course Coordinator:

Contact Telephone Email Office

Ms. Annette FRÖMEL 3943 7699 [email protected] Rm G31, Leung Kau Kui Building
Rm G17, Leung Kau Kui Building
Office Hours: Monday to Thursday:
General Office 3943 9836 [email protected] 8:45am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to 5:30pm
Friday: 8:45am to 1:00pm and 2:00pm to
5:45pm

Details of Course Website

CUHK Moodle Keep: https://moodle.cuhk.keep.edu.hk/

Feedback for Evaluation

Our language programme highly values students’ feedback and comments and is happy to use them for reflection
on our teaching and improvement. Students are very welcome to provide comments and feedback on the course
at any time to their course teacher or the course level coordinator through email or in personal conversation. In
addition, students’ feedbacks will be collected in the middle of the term through an open-ended questionnaire
and the teacher will discuss the feedbacks in class and make improvements if necessary. The course will also
follow the university’s course evaluation exercise at the end of the term, and students’ feedbacks will be used for
future course planning and teaching.

Academic Honesty and Plagiarism

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary
guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/.

With each assignment, students will be required to submit a signed declaration that they are aware of these
policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures.
• In the case of group projects, all members of the group should be asked to sign the declaration, each of
whom is responsible and liable to disciplinary actions, irrespective of whether he/she has signed the
declaration and whether he/she has contributed, directly or indirectly, to the problematic contents.
• For assignments in the form of a computer-generated document that is principally text-based and
submitted via VeriGuide, the statement, in the form of a receipt, will be issued by the system upon
students’ uploading of the soft copy of the assignment.
• Students are fully aware that their work may be investigated by AI content detection software to
determine originality.
• Students are fully aware of the AI approach(es) adopted in the course. In the case where some AI tools
are allowed, students have made proper acknowledgment and citations as suggested by the course
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Assignments without a properly signed declaration will not be graded by teachers.

Only the final version of the assignment should be submitted via VeriGuide.

The submission of a piece of work, or a part of a piece of work, for more than one purpose (e.g. to satisfy the
requirements in two different courses) without declaration to this effect shall be regarded as having
committed undeclared multiple submissions. It is common and acceptable to reuse a turn of phrase or a
sentence or two from one’s own work; but wholesale reuse is problematic. In any case, agreement from the
course teacher(s) concerned should be obtained prior to the submission of the piece of work.

The copyright of the teaching materials, including lecture notes, assignments and examination questions, etc.,
produced by staff members/ teachers of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) belongs to CUHK.
Students may download the teaching materials produced by the staff members/ teachers from the Learning
Management Systems, e.g. Blackboard, adopted by CUHK for their own educational use, but shall not
distribute/ share/ copy the materials to a third-party without seeking prior permission from the staff
members/ teachers concerned.

Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools in Teaching, Learning and Assessment
All use of AI tools is prohibited in assignments and assessment tasks

For assignments and assessment tasks that count towards the final course grades, students are not allowed to
submit work which is produced with the collaboration of or supported by the use of any generative AI tools
(e.g. ChatGPT)*.

Any breach of the regulations will be considered an act of academic dishonesty and will be handled according
to the University’s Procedures for Handling Cases of Academic Dishonesty.

In case of queries, students should seek advice from the course teacher.

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