A year of language skill extension for those who have completed a Level 1 or 2 course or equivalent. German 3 is a level A2.1 course Textbook: Schritte International Neu 2 with CD. There is a short break between terms.

Course Description

This year-long course is designed for learners who already have a foundation in German and want to build on their skills to reach a solid lower-intermediate level. 

With an emphasis on practical language use and cultural understanding, students will explore topics such as everyday experiences, home life, food and drink, working environments, health, education, and celebrations. 

Along the way, you'll continue to develop your speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills while learning to navigate more complex grammatical structures such as reflexive verbs, the perfect tense, the genitive case, and subordinate clauses.

Whether you're planning to travel, connect with German speakers, or continue to more advanced study, this course offers a balanced mix of vocabulary, grammar, conversation, and real-life application. 

Interactive lessons include partner work, listening comprehension, guided dialogues, and grammar-focused exercises to help solidify your understanding and boost your confidence in everyday communication.

Course Structure

The course is delivered in themed units, with each focusing on vocabulary, grammar, and practical communication related to a specific context:

• Arriving: Emotions, experiences, mishaps; perfect tense, genitive case, and conjunctions like weil
• At Home: Describing locations and movements; two-way prepositions and directional adverbs
• Food and Drink: Eating habits, household items, mealtime conversations, and invitations
• Working Life: Work-related dialogue, expressing conditions, giving advice, and phone conversations
• Sports and Fitness: Talking about health, fitness routines, interests; reflexive verbs and prepositional structures
• Education and Career: Childhood dreams, education, and opinions using modal verbs in the past and dass-clauses
• Celebrations and Gifts: Discussing gifts and celebrations; using the dative case, double objects, and von + dative structures

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Use the perfect tense with various verb types to talk about past experiences
• Apply the genitive case and von constructions to show possession
• Use two-way prepositions to describe position and movement
• Conduct conversations about food, work, health, education, and daily life
• Understand and use reflexive verbs and verbs with prepositions
• Express opinions, make recommendations, and give advice using subjunctive and conditional forms
• Talk confidently about events, mishaps, and celebrations in the past
• Navigate complex sentence structures involving conjunctions, modal verbs, and object placement
• Engage in basic workplace and phone interactions in German
• Continue progressing toward intermediate proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

Course Prerequisites

This course is designed for students with prior knowledge of German at an upper-beginner level, or who have completed WEA German 2 or an equivalent course.

Course Textbook

Neu 3 Kursbuch+Arbeitsbuch+CD zum Arbeitsbuch

ISBN No: 9783193610843

Schritte International