By the end of the study learners are expected to be able to:
• maintain a conversation on familiar study and specialism-related topics, expressing and exchanging opinions and factual information on study-related events;
• demonstrate understanding of clear and simple notices, including details on warning, announcements and instructions;
• make arrangements on the telephone, including getting connected, leaving and taking messages, provided the interlocutor’s speech is clearly articulated in a generally familiar accent;
• make public presentations using appropriate linguistic and non-linguistic means of communication;
• write e-mails conveying simple straightforward information of immediate relevance /close to academic environment and everyday life;
• write forum posts and comments, expressing their own opinion and commenting on other opinions, agreeing/disagreeing on what can be found in social media and virtual learning environment;

Prerequisites: The level of knowledge A1
Corequisites: Western European History

Socialising in Language Environments (Getting to Know Each Other. Describing Daily Life and Learning Experience. Making Arrangements by Phone. Exchanging Information and Discussing News. Dealing with Problems. Networking / Socialising in VLE) Searching for and Processing Information Developing skimming and scanning skills: extracting main and detailed information. Distinguishing between factual/ non-factual, important/ less important. Listening for main and detailed infrmation.

1. Kommunikatives Deutsch. Redaktionelle Leitung: Dr. V. Sadoroshnyj, Dr. Th. Seifert, Dr. F. Spitzner, M. Vesna. Lviv, 1998.
2. Весна М. Українсько-німецький розмовник. Растр-7, Львів – 2010.
3. Sprich richtig aus- Практичні завдання з розвитку фонетичних навичок з німецької мови для студентів І-ІІ курсів усіх спеціальностей, Львів 2004.
4. Lernziel Deutsch- Deutsch als Fremdsprache- Max Hueber Verlag- 1998
5. Becker, Braunert, Eisfeld. Dialog Beruf I. Max Hueber- Verlag, 1997.
6. Stalb H. Deutsch fur Studenten. Verlag fur Deutsch, 1995.
7. Словники.

Forms of study: practical classes, self-study.
Teaching methods: communicative, interactive
Assessment methods and criteria:
Current control: listening, monologue and dialogic speech, reading, writing.
Control test.
Final control: differentiated test/credit.
The distribution of points according to a 100-point scale
Current control (CC)
Total for the discipline 100
Classroom work 70
Listening 5
Reading 5
Speaking 5
Writing 5
Test № 1 25
Test № 2 25
Self-study 30
Exercises from textbooks. 5
Lexical and grammatical tests in Virtual Educational Environment (VEE) 5
Extracurricular reading. 5
Vocabulary of educational and special professional vocabulary. 5
Monologic speech.. 5
Dialogic speech. 5