Course Contents

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Please note the content shown below is 2025 syllabus. This course is also available for 2026 syllabus. Please contact college for details.

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Detailed Content

• The Leaving Certificate Examination
• How to tackle the oral examination
• A sample letter and a tape of a native German speaker reading the letter
• German Pronunciation

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• The Leaving Certificate Syllabus and more on the exam
• How to approach the reading comprehension
• Examples and explanations
• German and English cognates
• Formation of German words

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• How to tackle a listening comprehension
• The 'interpretation' question on the literary comprehension text
• How to learn from reading and listening texts with a view to writing and speaking
• Study tips and self-assessment exercises
• Angewandte Grammatik-type exercises
• Relevant 'Cultural Awareness' documents

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• How to approach a Schriftliche Produktion letter type question.
• Angewandte Grammatik-type exercises
• Distinguishing between active and passive knowledge of language
• Grammar
• Self-assessment exercises based on learning from reading texts

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• How to tackle a Schriftliche Produktion picture-type question
• Angewandte Grammatik-type exercises
• Grammatical Explanations
• Self-assessment exercises based on learning from reading texts

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• Example of a journalistic reading comprehension text and Äusserung zum Thema based on it
• Cultural Awareness
• A self-assessment journalistic reading comprehension
• Self-assessment exercises based on learning from reading texts

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• A self-assessment literary comprehension text
• Self-assessment exercises based on learning from reading texts
• Angewandte Grammatik-type exercises
• Relevant 'Cultural Awareness' articles

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• Examination and revision tips
• Self-assessment exercises based on learning from reading texts
• Cultural Awareness
• Angewandte Grammatik-type exercises

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• Reading Comprehension on Text I
• Angewandte Grammatik
• Reading Comprehension on Text II
• Äusserung zum Thema question
• Schriftliche Produktion question

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