1. Listening

• Understanding Simple Conversations: Comprehend clear, slowly spoken conversations on everyday topics, such as shopping, work, or family.

• Listening for Specific Information: Identify key points in short, straightforward radio broadcasts, announcements, or recorded messages.

• Daily Life Situations: Follow simple, spoken instructions and conversations in familiar contexts like restaurants, public transport, or stores.

2. Speaking

• Participating in Routine Exchanges: Engage in simple, direct exchanges of information on familiar topics, including asking for and providing directions, making purchases, and discussing work.

• Describing Daily Routines: Talk about your daily activities, routines, and immediate needs using connected phrases and sentences.

• Expressing Simple Opinions: Begin to express opinions, likes, dislikes, and preferences on familiar topics, using basic connectors like "and," "but," and "because."

• Pronunciation Practice: Improve pronunciation and intonation to ensure clearer communication, focusing on more complex sounds and word stress.

3. Reading

• Understanding Short Texts: Read and understand short, simple texts, including personal letters, emails, and messages.

• Comprehension of Everyday Materials: Grasp the main ideas in simple informational materials, such as advertisements, brochures, and menus.

• Basic Narrative Texts: Follow simple, short narratives, such as personal stories or descriptions in basic reading passages.

4. Writing

• Writing Simple Texts: Write short, connected texts on familiar topics, such as describing your family, home, or hobbies

• Personal Correspondence: Write simple letters, emails, or messages, thanking someone, making requests, or giving basic information.

• Form Completion: Accurately fill out forms and applications with personal details and simple information about your work or interests.

5. Grammar

• Past Tense: Learn to use the Perfekt (present perfect) tense to talk about past events and experiences.

• Modal Verbs: Understand and apply basic modal verbs (e.g., können, müssen, dürfen) to express abilities, obligations, and permissions.

• Adjective Endings: Use adjectives with correct endings in nominative and accusative cases, matching gender, case, and number.

• Word Order: Develop understanding of word order in main and subordinate clauses, particularly with the placement of verbs and negations.

• Prepositions: Familiarize yourself with common prepositions (e.g., in, auf, bei) and their corresponding cases (accusative and dative).

6. Vocabulary

• Expanding Everyday Vocabulary: Broaden your vocabulary to cover topics such as health, travel, work, and hobbies.

• Describing Experiences: Learn vocabulary to describe personal experiences, past events, and future plans.

• Common Expressions and Phrases: Use common expressions related to making arrangements, giving advice, or asking for opinions.

• Numbers and Quantities: Practice using numbers in practical contexts, such as shopping, dates, measurements, and prices.

7. Cultural Awareness

• Understanding Customs: Learn about cultural norms and customs in German-speaking countries, including holidays, traditions, and social practices.

• Cultural Etiquette: Gain awareness of appropriate social behavior, such as how to make polite requests, give compliments, and offer help.

• Simple Cultural Discussions: Engage in discussions about cultural differences and similarities, using simple language to compare your culture with that of German-speaking countries.

This curriculum for German Level A2 builds on the foundations of A1, helping learners to communicate more confidently and effectively in everyday situations. It prepares students to progress to Level B1, where they will develop more independent language skills.