Summer Camp 2019

• Workshops:
  • Social Sciences, Economics and Management
  • Mathematics and Physics
  • Energy, Resources and Technology
  
• German Language Course Part 1:
  For different levels:
  from beginners to advanced
  
• German Language Course Part 2:
  For different levels:
  from beginners to advanced
  

• German Language Course Part 1:
  August 6 to August 14, 2019
  A1.1, A2.1, B1.1, B2.2 (1)
• German Language Course Part 2:
  August 15 to August 24, 2019
  A1.2, A2.2, B1.2, B2.2 (2)

You will learn to understand and use familiar, everyday expressions, and basic phrases about your immediate surroundings. With a focus on speaking and listening, you will learn how to interact in a simple way.
Topics to be covered will include: introducing yourself and others; talking about family, friends and hobbies; numbers, time and dates; work and professions; getting around in the city; leisure activities; food and restaurants.
You will learn the most basic forms and structures, such as statements and questions, conjugation of the present tense, past tense of “haben” and “sein”, separable verbs, modal verbs, articles in the nominative and accusative case, pronouns and basic prepositions.

Prerequisite: none

You will improve your interaction skills with speaking and listening exercises. You will be able to read and understand simple descriptive texts and dialogues, and you will learn how to write short texts.
Topics to be covered will include: interacting with people; life at work; living in the city; fashion and clothes; health and fitness; holidays and the weather.
You will learn more basic forms and structures, such as the perfect tense, imperative forms, more modal verbs, articles and personal pronouns in the dative case, possessive articles in the accusative case, demonstrative pronouns, more temporal and local prepositions, adverbials of time, and sentence connectors.

Prerequisite: A1.1

You will learn to use frequent expressions in everyday situations and during routine tasks, and to talk about familiar persons and objects in your immediate surroundings. You will also become acquainted with communicative patterns such as asking for information, expressing opinions and feelings, and giving advice. You will be able to read and understand basic descriptive texts and dialogues, and you will learn how to compose basic texts.
Topics to be covered will include: food and restaurants; school and the school system; communication media; celebrations and festivities; work and career; travel and mobility. You will learn new forms and structures, such as reflexive verbs, modal verbs (past tense), possessive articles in the dative case, declension of adjectives, comparative and superlative forms, (local) prepositions with dative and accusative, subordinate clauses with “weil”, “dass”, “wenn”, and indirect questions.

Prerequisite: A1.1 and A1.2

This course will help you gain more confidence in using familiar and new structures and patterns in everyday situations. You will deepen your communicative skills when describing things and persons, planning activities, making suggestions and complaints, expressing intentions, wishes and feelings, and giving advice.
You will learn to understand the most relevant facts in conversations and a variety of descriptive texts, and you will be able to compose pre-intermediate descriptive texts and dialogues. You will learn new forms and structures on a pre-intermediate level, such as verbs with accusative and dative, verbs with prepositions, subjunctive II (to express wishes, requests and advice), genitive –s, temporal prepositions, subordinate clauses with “als/wenn” and “damit/um … zu”, sentence connectors (“denn”, “trotzdem”, deshalb”), and relative clauses (nominative and accusative).

Prerequisite: completed A1 level and completed A2.1 course

You will learn to understand the main points of familiar matters that are regularly encountered in everyday situations in school, work, leisure time, and more.
Topics to be covered will include: traveling in a German-speaking country; advertisements and deciding what to buy; turning points in life; professional life; environmental protection; plans and ambitions for the future. You will learn intermediate-level structures and grammar, such as sentences using the infinitive, the verb “lassen”, more varieties of subordinated clauses, past tense, subjunctive II, future I, more varieties of relative clauses, and more prepositions.

You will learn to describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions, and briefly give reasons and explanations.
Topics to be covered will include: human relationships; health; art; social cohesion; living in cities; money. You will learn more intermediate-level forms and structures, such as the past perfect tense, more varieties of subordinated clauses, two-part sentence connectors, adjective declension without articles, passive voice with modal verbs, participles as adjectives, and more.

You will broaden your vocabulary and practice the comprehension of the main ideas of complex texts that you read or listen to. You will improve the degree of fluency in interaction with native speakers. You will learn how to describe diagrams and graphs, and practice presentations.
Topics to be covered will include: the human voice; wanderlust; language and communication; lies. You will review and expand structures and grammar such as nominalizations, pre- and post-modifiers, polynomial text connectors, and more.