German
As per the norms of CEFR German ability to speak German is tested and conducted by GOETHE INSITUT
As per the norms of CEFR German ability to speak German is tested and conducted by GOETHE INSITUT
A1 - German
Duration: 100 Hours
Users can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of the needs of a concrete type. Users can interact in a simple way like asking questions and answering basic things provided the other person talks slowly and clearly.
A1 Content Glossary
Duration: 25 - 30 Hours
- Salutations
- Alphabets, Numbers
- Phonetics, Orthographs, punctuations
- Days of the week, Months of the Year
- Definite & Indefinite Articles
- Personal pronouns
- Interrogative Pronouns
- Regular Verbs Conjugations (present tense)
- Irregular Verbs (Sein, Haben…)with negative and
- Interrogative form
- Negative Forms (nicht and kein)
- Separable and Reflexive Verbs
- German word order
- Prefect tense
- Future tense (future 1)
- German cases (nominative, accusative and dative)
- Prepositions (Date, Time, Place, Transportation)
- Contractive articles
- Use of adjectives (describing personalities)
- Possessive & Demonstrative Articles
- Imperative
Speaking Section
Marks: 25
- How to Introduce in German
- Name of Seasons
- Vocabulary ( House, Classroom, Fruits, Vegetables
- Colours, Body parts
- How do tell about the weather
- Describe people, Place, Weather, Home
- How to Tell time
- A daily routine using Reflexive Verbs
- How to do shopping
- How to book a room
- How to make an appointment
- Inquiry about registration
- Rent a car / apartment
- Take help
- Offer Services
- Describe the house in, third person
- Talk about events, Festivals
- Public transports
- Accept or reject proposals
- Go for holidays, Vacations
Listening Section
Marks: 25
Suggested Books:
- Studio
- Hueber
Writing Section
Marks: 25
Parts: 2
- Filling a Registration Form
- Writing an informal letter
- To invite someone for any occasion(Birthday, Marriage, Festival)
- Accept or Refuse the invitation
- Invite a friend to watch a movie, to spend vacations with you
- To tell your family or friend about your new city, new City
- Invite a German friend to spend vacations in your country
- Write good wishes to someone for his exams, new job
- Write to ask for services (Hotel reservation, book a tour)
- Email a friend to ask his/her news
- Respond to an informal email
- Write an informal postcard
- Write a condolence message
- To react according to subject
- Write about your French classes (Experience, Teacher)
Writing Section
Marks: 25
Parts: 2
- German Songs and Music ( National Anthem)
- German Cuisine
- Study of Popular Monuments of Germ
- Cities of Germany with their geographical, historical, economic, and political importance
- Basic information about German-speaking countries
- German Festivals, Rituals, Occasions, Myths, Important dates
- German Speaking Countries
A2 - German
Duration: 100 Hours
User understands sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance They can communicate and exchange information on familiar and routine matters in simple terms regarding matters in areas of basic need
Grammar Section
Duration: 25 - 26 Hours
Marks: 25
- All german tenses
- Active & Passive voice (present & past passive)
- Relative pronoun
- Da & Wo Compounds
- All 4 german cases in detail
- Preposition (accusative, dative & two way)
- Verbs with preposition
- German Conjunctions
- Use of Past Tense
- Form a story using Perfect and Imperfect tense
- Subjective Moods
- Conditional Moods
- Hypothetical Sentences
- Direct Indirect
- Use of Past Tense ( Präteritum)
Speaking Section
Marks: 25
Parts: 2
A. Monologue
- Speak about your family
- Speak about the person you love
- To tell about the festivals of your country
- Speak about the country you want to live in explaining the reason
- About your favorite book
- Festivals & Traditions of your country
- Tell me about the movie you’ve watched recently
- Talk about your studies and your future goals
- To talk about past events, accidents, Incidents, Visits
- Unforgettable moments
- To talk about your regret, desire
- To deal with complex situations
- To describe a place, or person in detail
- To give an impression of the place
- To defend opinion
- To talk about social issues, events, festivals, and rituals.
- To describe a place, or person in detail
- To give definitions (What is friendship, Intelligence)
- To describe a place, or person in detail
B. Role Play
- To buy movie tickets, Museum, Opera Evening
- Book a restaurant for an event
- Ask for specific food or drinks
- File a complaint (To repost against lost bags, wallets, suitcases, and passports)
- To ask for permission for some activity
- To give explanations, Excuses
- Making announcements
- Plan a tour, Vacations, Trips
- Urgent call ( Medical emergency, report an incident)
- Rent or buy a car, apartment
- To convince for an activity, work, food, event, meeting
- Describe your Profile
- Importance of learning German
Listening Section
Marks: 25
Suggested Books:
- Studio
- Heuber
Writing Section
Marks: 25
Letter Topics:
- Write about unforgettable moments
- Write your experience about Past events, Visits, Festivals Celebrated, Marriage
- Write about your impression of the place visited
- Express your opinion
- Write Personal Journal
- Accept, refuse, post pone invitations
- To ask for advice from friend
- How to write Personal Journal, Blog
- Describe events of past accidents, incidents, conflict
- Invite a friend to attend some event, or occasion
- To Inquire about services from hotels, museum
Reading Section
Marks: 25
- Read brochures, Advertisements, Website content, Services
- Read short news articles on social issues including
- Travel diaries
- Media
- Mode Of Communication
- Biography of a person
- Environment
B1 - German
Users understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst traveling in an area where the language is spoken. Can produce simple connected text on topics that are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes, and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans
Grammar Section
Duration: 25 - 26 Hours
Marks: 25
- Indicators of conditional
- Final clauses
- Nouns – Verb – Connectors
- Time clauses: simultaneity, non-simultaneity
- Prepositions
- Adjectives + Prepositions
- Enumerations
- Causes & consequences
- Modal verbs, brauchen + zu
- The past subjunctive (polite requests, wishes, past)
- N – Declination
- Indicators of time
- Adverbs of time
- Adjectives (comparative/superlative)
- The genitive
- Relative clauses
Speaking Section
Marks: 25
- To speak for 3 to 5 minutes on a social topic, news article
- Describe the personal and professional journey (Parcours)
- To give opinions on social issues, events
- Defend and prepare an argument on a given subject
- Emotions (Jealousy, Fatigue, Anger, Love, Stress…)
- Conclude an argument bravely
- Enjoy effortlessly dealing with complex situations likely to arise in daily life
- Interview conversations, Debates
- Use of formal salutations and vocabulary
- Understand the corporate and political world
- Deal with mature conversations
- To express a point of view
- Capable to describe any word, place, event, person, or situation without making any grammatical errors.
- Spontaneous role plays
Listening Section
Marks: 25
Suggested Books:
- Studio B1
- Hueber
- Prufungtraining_goethe_Zertifikat
Writing Section
Marks: 25
- Writing personal letters to friends asking for or giving them news and narrating events.
- Conveying facts and numbers to friends or colleagues.
- Write simple connected texts on topics within my field of interest and express my opinion.
- Describing the plot of a film or a book in a personal letter.
Reading Section
Marks: 25
- Interview conversations, Debates
- Understand the corporate and political world
- General awareness about German psychology and Civilisation
- Social issues and problems in Germany
- Social awareness and challenges
B2 - German
Users can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party. Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages
Grammar Section
Marks: 25
- Indicators of space: prepositions of two cases
- Causal and effect indicators: weil, denn, deshalb, so…dass etc
- Sentence connectives: Subordinate clauses
- Adjectives with prepositional case
- Two-part sentence connectives
- Sentence connectives: main sentences
- Subjunctive II
- Prepositions with the genitive
Speaking Section
Marks: 25
- To understand what is the tone, mood, sense, expression, emotions, intention, context, ideology, point of view, and purpose of the speaker.
- Knowledge of Civilization and laws of Germany
- Good awareness of topics related to social problems, Social reforms, in Germany and German Speaking countries.
- Sound knowledge of German life, Cultural values, Rituals, Social Evils, and Social conflicts.
- How to win over technical terminology
- Develop competency to debate (20 minutes) on news articles, bulletins, radio interviews, blogs, current affairs, and other long documents by defending your own point of view bravely.
- Ability to use language without committing any grammatical errors using synonyms and antonyms.
- Find out the real problems or challenges in the document and prepare arguments for a strategy to debate with the jury.
- Ability to speak on hypothetical, Socio-Economical, Political, Technological, Spiritual, Vocational, Educational, Environmental, Socio-Legal, Psychological, Motivational, and Cultural topics.
- Can maintain Spontaneous, Fluent, Effortless, Comprehensive, Clear, Brave, Polite, Initiative, and Argumentative Conversations.
- Can understand TV shows, Radio, Interviews telecasts, Debates
- Conversations of native speakers (Formal and Informal), Speeches, Journal, and Audio Transcripts with their actual contexts
Listening Section
Marks: 25
Conversations of native speakers (Formal and Informal), Speeches, journals, and Audio Transcripts with their actual context.
Suggested Books:
- Studio B2
- Heuber
- Prufungtraining_goethe_Zertifikat
Writing Section
Marks: 25
- Peut écrire des textes clairs et détaillés sur une grande gamme de sujets relatifs à mes intérêts.
- Peut écrire un essai ou un rapport en transmettant une information ou en exposant des raisons pour ou contre une opinion donnée.
- Peut écrire des lettres qui mettent en valeur le sens que j’attribue personnellement aux événements et aux expériences
Reading Section
Marks: 25
- News from all over the world
- Interpersonal relations
- Living and renting
- Travel, trouble on vacations
- Cultural differences in professional life
- Daily work: e-mails & telephone calls
- History and politics
- Crime Stories
C1 & C2
Students can now understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts and recognize implicit meaning. Expresses fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic, and professional purposes. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors, and cohesive devices. Understand with ease virtually everything heard or read.
Summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation. Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently, and precisely in complex situations.
Grammar Section
Marks: 25
- Adjectives with prepositional case
- Two-part sentence connectives
- Sentence connectives: main sentences
- Expressing assumptions
- Extended modifiers (Partizipialattribute)
- Declination of adjectives
- Fixed connectives
- Adverbial clauses
- Passive replacement forms
Speaking Section
Marks: 25
- Active participation in organized debates
- Public communication with professionals on political issues council, local or national assemblies, political-party or union meetings)
- Radio broadcasts, recorded messages
- Participation in court hearings and formal hearings
- Public speeches to familiar or friendly listeners expressing sympathy, condolences, happiness, prayers
Listening Section
Marks: 25
Long, complex, argumentative speeches (proselytizing and political discourse) including thesis, legal actions, and declarations
Writing Section
Marks: 25
- Write the summary of newspaper articles, speeches, Essays about controversial topics include:
- Stadtplanung
- Ökologie
- Weltraumforschung
- Medizinische Forschung
- Wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt
- Wissenschaftliche Ausbildung
- Die Gefahren der Wissenschaft
Reading Section
Marks: 25
- Daily press or newspapers – international, national, regional
- Local news: politics, society, economics, arts, entertainment, science, sport.
- Brief news, editorials, notices, points of view, reports, conversations, interviews, stock ratings, horoscopes,
publicity, sponsored articles - Dictionaries, encyclopedias, language dictionaries, manuals, textbooks, monographs, summaries, travel-guides, aide-memoirs, précis, and tracts.