German language : reading and writing [ LGERM1112 ]

1. starting from authentic texts of different genres, introduction to the techniques of reading (extensive, intensive, skimming, scanning etc.);

2. written processing of these texts: contraction, translation, commentary, analysis, etc.

To acquire upper intermediate skills in reading and writing.
At the end of the course the student will be able to :
- understand the content of relatively complex, recent, and authentic topical (in a broad sense) texts (about concrete and abstract matters; politics, economics, sports, science, culture and literature);
- decode the lexical, grammatical, phraseological, stylistic and pragmatic information in relation to these texts;
- answer comprehension questions related to the content of the texts considered;
- process the information contained in these texts (summary, review);
- produce small, clearly structured written documents of a relatively informal character (personal letters, e-mails, notes) with particular attention paid to style, code and content.