Study: First cycle
Year: First year
Semester: First semester
Department: Management
Finance and Accounting
ECTS: 5
Grammatical units:
Pronunciation and writing, article and nouns, noun declensions, adjective and adjective declensions, types of pronouns, number, verb - division into strong and weak, learning strong verbs, verb tenses - present, preterit, perfect, future I, Conditional I, active and passive voice, reflexive verbs, auxiliary verbs, modal verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, sentence - simple and complex, dependent clauses, infinitive constructions, word order in the sentence - main and dependent.
Topics and vocabulary in the field of economics: statistics and accounting, electronic data processing and information systems management, productivity, profitability and economy, production process, banking, payment methods, trade, import, export, customs, market and marketing, IMF, World Bank, public relations, human resources management .
Topics from business correspondence: business communication between business partners with the aim of concluding a contract - orderly flow of communication (e.g. circular, inquiry, offer, order, contract, invoice, etc.), - problems in communication (e.g. warning, complaint, termination of contract, etc.) and business communication on special occasions (curriculum vitae/resume and cover letter responding to a job advertisement, etc.).
The aim of the course is to master morphological, syntactic and semantic exercises for the purpose of acquiring relevant language structures and terminology primarily from the language skills of listening, understanding, reading, writing and speaking. Through oral exercises, grammatical structures will be developed and practiced through different speech situations as well as theoretical assumptions and fundamental aspects of acquiring German as a foreign language by reaching the European reference framework A1 and A2. Furthermore, the goal is to enable students to get to know and adopt the basic lexical corpus from different areas of economics and to learn the basic rules of the form and content of certain types of letters of business correspondence between business partners and thereby raise the level of linguistic and communicative competence with an emphasis on professional terminology from the area of economics and business correspondence.
Lectures are conducted with the use of teaching aids, as well as active learning techniques with the active participation of students.
Students who pass the first test during the semester are obliged to pass the second test and the oral exam. The written part of the exam is a prerequisite for the final oral exam. Activities include discussion during class and preparation of a seminar paper (optional).
Using language structures and terminology of the German language for business purposes.
Mandatory
Additional
BA