German 5

Students will consolidate their ability to communicate in German in oral and written discourse and develop cultural literacy by engaging with the theme of mobility and its impact on German-speaking societies. Topics include among others the road trip genre, the history of mobility, and border crossings in Europe. Students will develop more advanced language skills through reading short literary and journalistic texts and engaging with audio-visual and digital media. In communicative settings, they discuss questions of travel, traffic, and migration and express their opinions and ideas in speaking and writing. Students will also gain an understanding of the principles of organising language as well as developing proficiency in the use of the appropriate linguistic tools for the formation of situation-appropriate vocabulary, sentence and text structures. Students will become familiar with specialised terminology and will develop analytical skills relevant to the topic area.