This course prepares students for the Certificate in Intermediate German by giving them training in skills such as global text understanding, selective text understanding, written expression, formal letter writing, and oral expression.  Mock tests will be conducted and feedback will be provided on them.

Students will be trained to acquire the vocabulary and skills required to take the Certificate of German as a Foreign Language Examination. They will develop their speaking, listening, and reading comprehension skills. They will also be able to write short texts in German.

Students will apply previously acquired knowledge to various concrete situations of every-day life through dialogs and group conversations: going shopping, at the airport, at the doctor's office, at the university, among others.

Students will understand most of the common situations of daily life with help from their interlocutors; and they will be able to function at survival level. The students will also understand simple readings and will be able to write them as well, thus achieving a better level of communication.

Students will broaden the knowledge acquired during the first level. They are expected to express likes and dislikes, preferences, suggestions, and advice for daily situations such as traveling, places to visit, food, and restaurants.  They will also be able to talk about the future to make plans for practical purposes and to express their wishes, goals, and the actions leading to those goals.

Students will read and understand academic texts and will learn how to write summaries and argumentation essays, and to express their opinion in French in order to acquire a better command of the language and a better understanding of the French culture.

Students will not only be able to hold a conversation, but also to change the subject and to start a conversation, lead and manipulate it.  They will be able to deal will all common daily situations and adapt to unexpected situations without communication flaws.  Students will also be able to read factual and fictional texts and write effectively about their own opinion and about facts.  At this level, students will start developing argumentation skills; they will use comple

During this level, students will work with more formal situations in order to contribute in a more significant way to conversations according to different situations (classroom, ethical discussion, negotiations in general).  Students will be able to write summaries of events, meetings, among other situations.  Through a more developed vocabulary, the students will be able to communicate more efficiently and fluently.

Students will understand simple readings (instructions, personal letters, comics or texts giving an opinion) and will be able to write them as well, understanding the functionality of the language as a goal, in a non-specialized field and still relying on their interlocutors.  Through these activities, students will broaden their grammatical skills and use of the language.