Intermediate German: Contemporary Life (Language Proficiency)

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Intermediate German Contemporary Life(Language
Proficiency)

• Speaking and Writing
• Develops increased ability to sustain
  interpersonal conversations on concrete topics
  encountered in every-day life with greater
  vocabulary, fluency and accuracy.
• Fosters more extended discourse (narration,
  description).
• Speaking activities range from guided/controlled
  scenarios to open discussions (controlled
  practice of structures in context, role plays,
  interviews, summaries, mini-oral reports).
• Writing assignments range from form-focused
  practice to informal writing to formal essays
  (response journals, diaries, letters, short
  paragraphs, newsgroup/email discussion, guided
  process essays with peer editing).
• Reading and Listening
• Develops ability to understand literary and
  non-literary texts from wide array of media on
  relatively familiar topics with some measure of
  vocabulary help and cultural context provided
  (pre-reading/listening reading/listening post
  reading/listening tasks).
• Extensive reading longer works (e.g full-length
  play or prose work) containing largely familiar
  sentence patterns and clear underlying structure
  (e.g. Jugendliteratur, plays, films).