IIT Madras – Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
The overall objective of this course is to acquire working knowledge of the German language, roughly corresponding to the A1 proficiency level of the European Common Language Framework.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages
Course Contents:
Basic German sentence structure
Information about oneself, one’s daily routine, likes and dislikes, family, immediate surroundings
Elementary level exposure to the history, geography, and culture of German speaking countries
Definite and indefinite articles – Adjectives – agreement with their nouns – Conjugation of verbs to have, to be affirmative, negative and interrogative foms – possessive adjectives. Contraction ‘of the’ ‘to the’ (Singular and Plural) – demonstrative adjectives – The three groups of verbs – present perfect tense with ‘tohave’ and ‘tob’ – The partitive article – Future tense – immediate future recent past – Reflexive verbs – Present perfect of reflexive verbs.