German C1

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CONTENTS

Here you will find a general overview of what you are going to learn.

YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

  • understand a wide range of demanding, longer clauses, and recognize implicit meaning (oral and written).
  • express your ideas fluently and spontaneously.
  • use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes.
  • produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing the controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

 

GRAMMAR

  • Review and extension of all previous topics, plus:
  • Nouns, pronouns and noun groups.
    • Word constructions: suffixes and prefixes. Nominalization, verbalization.
  • Adjectives and determiners. Revision and extension from B2. Adjectives with a preposition.
  • Adverbs and adverbial phrases. Revision and extension from B2.
  • Verbs and verbal tenses.
    • Mixed conditionals in the past and the future.
    • Narrative tenses
    • Passives.
      • 1. Vorgangspassiv
      • 2. Zustandspassiv
      • 3. Passiversatzformen
    • Both separable and inseparable particles.
    • KI and KII
    • Modal verbs: subjective meaning. Passive.
    • Present Participle.
  • Prepositions and prepositional phrases. All types.
  • Coordinate and subordinate clauses. All types (subject, object, relative, conditionals…)   
    • Infinitive clauses with/without zu.
    • Reported speech (KI)

VOCABULARY

  • Revision, extension and deepening of all the topics in B2. Text.
  • Personal information and relationships. Personal data, physical description, character and personality, appearance, professions…
  • House and environment in deeper detail (furniture, household chores, renting, finding a flatmate…)
  • Daily routine: describing your job, responsibilities, likes/dislikes…
  • Free time and leisure: Cultural and intellectual interests, personal hobbies, arts, cinema, sports…
  • Travel. Public and private means of transportation, holiday and tourism, different ways of traveling, necessary things/actions to travel…
  • Culture and tradition.
  • Health and physical care: Healthy live, medical care, insurances…
  • Education: Training, personal development, cultural level…
  • Consumption and commerce: Consumer habits, infrastructure…
  • Diet: healthy food, cuisine…
  • Goods and services. exchange money, open up a bank account, public services…
  • Environment and nature: describe local aspects, climate change, global climate, terrain…
  • Science and technology. Modern technologies and communication, new discoveries…
  • Different types of texts and registers. Text commentary, Text analysis. Summary.
  • Text cohesion.
  • Sayings and collocations.

* Not all the topics are listed here (that would be endless), but it will give you an approximate idea of the level. But in case you need more information about official contents/exams, you can find them here: Link to COE levels, Link to COE exams.

SCHEDULE

You can choose between:

  • German C1 on Mondays and Wednesdays at 08:00 or 18:00 Berlin (16:00 or 02:00 Sydney), and
  • German C1 on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:00 Berlin (19:00 Sydney).

Write us an email to translatemate.eu@gmail.com and tell us which course fits you more. We will give you all the information about availability and about how to join a course. More info about how to sign up or hire a service here.

 

(Please be aware of the change to daylight saving time (DST) on the 7th October in Australia)

Time Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
06:00 – 06:45
07:00 – 07:45
08:00 – 08:45 Berlin

16:00-16:45 Sydney

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09:00 – 09:45
10:00 – 10:45
11:00 – 11:45 Berlin

19:00-19:45 Sydney

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16:00 -16:45
17:00 – 17:45
18:00 – 18:45 Berlin

02:00-02:45 Sydney

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PRICES

COURSES and LESSONS:

  • Levels C1 and C2. Proficiency. (From 5th-year school):
    • Group lesson (maximum 4 persons): 6,50 €/lesson (10,18 AUD).
    • Semi-private (2 persons): 8 €/lesson (12,53 AUD).
    • Private lesson (only one person): 14 €/lesson (21,92 AUD).

 

TEXT/HOMEWORK CORRECTION:

  • Levels C1 and C2: 0,06 € per word (0,094AUD/word).