LFU:online

Prerequisites: B1
Goal: B1+

At this level the learner can handle a substantially wider range of information than at the B1 level in the following areas: he/she can take messages, can communicate enquiries, explain problems; he/she can provide concrete information required in an interview/consultation (e.g. can describe symptoms to a doctor) but does so with limited precision; he/she can explain why something is a problem and can summarise and give his/her opinion about a short story, article, talk, discussion, interview, or documentary and answer further questions of detail; he/she can carry out a prepared interview, check and confirm information, though he/she may occasionally have to ask for repetition if the other person’s reply is rapid or extended.

Topics:
modern life; ways of living; health and alternative movements; free time and entertainment; learning – lifelong learning; job profiles; ways of living; consumption today; holiday and travelling; nature and environment

Linguistic Goals:
to congratulate someone on something; to give advice in written form; to post something in a forum; to argue for/ against something; to assume something; to write a short text; to express one’s opinion; to complain about something; to express doubt/ denial; to give a presentation

Structural Goals:
Tenses – to talk about the past; temporal clauses with “als“ and “wenn“ - to express the temporal relationship between the actions expressed in the temporal clause and the main clause;  subordinate clauses with “während“, “obwohl“ – to make restrictions; relative clause - to describe people and objects in some detail; future I - to talk about future actions; verbs with prepositions; subjunctive II/ unreal conditional - to formulate guarded/ polite requests and to express possibility or unreal conditions/ desires/ comparisons; the use of and alternatives for the passive - to talk about an action from the point of view of the person affected;

Aspekte neu B1+, Lehr- und Arbeitsbuch (Klett-Langenscheidt Verlag)