B1 German intensive course

Our B1 German course builds on the A2 intensive course. The acquisition of the basic grammar is largely completed at the beginning of the B1 German course. In the further course of the course, more complex grammatical structures are dealt with. The ability to take part in everyday conversations without preparation is gradually developed in the B1 course. The spectrum of topics of discussion will be expanded to include political, economic, historical and current social issues. The course of the lessons and the types of tasks in our B1 intensive course aim to enable students to use the language independently within a short period of time.

Your daily B1 lessons with us look like this:

• Training of oral and written communication skills
• intensive vocabulary work
• Training of listening and reading comprehension based on texts of medium difficulty
• Learning and practicing more complex grammar structures
• Presentation and writing training
• Pronunciation training

After successfully completing our B1 German course, you will be able to express yourself in German independently and have fluent discussions on the main topics. You will learn from clearly formulated conversations on topics such as training, work, leisure, media, etc. to obtain detailed information and to write your own coherent argumentative texts.

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Target group:

German learners who have mastered basic German grammar as far as possible, understand texts on everyday topics, can communicate in the most common everyday situations and who want to quickly develop their knowledge of German

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Requirements / previous knowledge:

• telc A2 certificate or
• A2 certificate from a language school in Germany ok
• Admission test

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Methods:

• Language of instruction: German
• Vermittlung unterschiedlicher Lese- und Hörstrategien (global, selektiv, detailliert)
• Vermittlung diverser Methoden zur Erschließung unbekannten Wortschatzes
• Einüben des neu erworbenen Wortschatzes durch Dialogübungen und das Verfassen eigener Texte (Argumentation)

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Lecturers:

The teaching team from Perfekt Deutsch consists of lecturers with extensive teaching experience and intercultural competence.

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Teaching materials:

In the course you will work with current B1 textbooks. You will receive detailed information on this in good time before the start of the course. We also use teaching materials that are developed by the Perfect German Language Academy and are continuously updated and supplemented by the school’s internal editorial staff.

Zusätzlich erhalten die B1 Kursteilnehmer von Perfekt Deutsch einen individuellen Zugang zu unserer kursbegleitenden E-Learning-Plattform. Diese enthält an das Kurs- und das Sprachniveau der B1 Deutschlerner angepasste Grammatik-, Wortschatzübungen, Lese- und Hörtrainingsaufgaben, sowie eine Vielzahl von Übungen zu Verbesserung der schriftlichen Ausdrucksfähigkeit.

The content of our B1 German course corresponds to the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

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Vocabulary tests, intermediate exams in the B1 German course:

• 9 vocabulary tests (after each lesson)
• 3 major intermediate exams (every 2 weeks)

The regular learning progress checks test the skills of reading, listening, writing and the practiced grammar. The corrections are made by the qualified teachers. With the help of these tests you can check your learning progress.

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E-learning component:

The Perfekt Deutsch Language Akademy uses the principle of blended learning and combines the face-to-face and online live courses with an e-learning component. On our learning platform, we provide our course participants with online exercises with which they can check and deepen their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary in particular during the course.

In addition, our learning platform contains a large number of writing tasks that our German learners work on in the course of the B1 German course. The continuous writing training gives our course participants the opportunity to consolidate their written language skills and to develop discursive skills. The intensive writing training in the B1 course is accompanied by our course instructors, the course participants receive individual error analysis and feedback on their writing performance.

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Work at home:

You get homework every day. These will be discussed and corrected on the next day of class.

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Final exam and certificate after the B1 course:

At the end of the course, you will take an internal B1 final exam and receive an B1 final certificate from Perfekt Deutsch. The written exam contains the following parts: grammar, reading comprehension, listening comprehension and text production.

You also have the option of taking a telc German B1 exam with us. Here you can find more information about the telc B1 exam.

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Additionally for the online course:

With our online B1 German course, you can learn from the comfort of your own home and achieve your desired learning goal in a timely manner.

This is what awaits you:

• Interactive live online lessons in the virtual classroom with video and audio
• Professional German learning with qualified, experienced  GAFL (German as a foreign language) teachers

For the online course you need:  

• stable internet connection
• Computer or laptop with camera  
• microphone  
• possibly headphones

Our german teachers have a lot of experience in teaching the German language and are well versed in using the respective online tools. They know how to make online lessons diverse and goal-oriented, how to motivate participants to do interactive exercises and how to make optimal use of the advantages of online lessons.

In the online German course from Perfekt Deutsch you work with modern software that is free of charge for you. You can either order your textbook as a print version in bookshops or you can work with an interactive digital version.