1. Listening

• Understanding Everyday Speech: Comprehend main points in clear standard speech on familiar matters such as work, school, leisure, and current events

• Follow Complex Instructions: Understand and follow instructions, directions, or procedures in familiar contexts, even if the speaker’s pace varies.

• Engage with Audio and Video: Grasp the main ideas of radio or TV programs on current affairs or topics of personal or professional interest when spoken clearly.

2. Speaking

• Engage in Extended Conversations: Participate in conversations on topics like work, education, travel, and personal interests, expressing yourself clearly and with some fluency.

• Narrate and Describe: Describe experiences, events, dreams, hopes, and ambitions in detail. Provide reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

• Express Opinions and Arguments: Give your opinion on common issues, discuss advantages and disadvantages, and engage in simple debate using appropriate phrases and connectors.

• Pronunciation and Intonation: Enhance pronunciation and intonation for more natural and confident speaking, paying attention to stress patterns in longer sentences.

3. Reading

• Understand Everyday Texts: Read and comprehend texts that consist mainly of high-frequency, everyday language, such as personal letters, news articles, and blog posts.

• Reading for Specific Information: Scan longer texts (e.g., instructions, brochures, or advertisements) to locate specific information or to understand the general meaning.

• Comprehend Simple Literature: Read short stories, simple novels, or adapted literary texts, understanding the plot and identifying the main characters and themes

4. Writing

• Writing Coherent Texts: Write simple, connected texts on topics that are familiar or of personal interest, such as essays, reviews, or reports.

• Personal and Formal Correspondence: Draft personal and formal letters and emails, expressing feelings, making requests, or handling common social and professional exchanges.

• Narrative Writing: Write detailed descriptions of events, past experiences, and future plans, using appropriate tenses and connectors.

• Expressing Opinions in Writing: Write short texts expressing your viewpoint on familiar issues, presenting arguments and counterarguments with clarity.

5. Grammar

• Tenses Review: Consolidate the use of present, past (Perfekt, Präteritum), and future tenses, focusing on consistency and accuracy in longer texts and conversations.

• Complex Sentences: Use subordinate clauses (e.g., relative clauses, conditional sentences) to create more complex sentences, improving clarity and detail in communication.

• Modal Verbs in Context: Apply modal verbs (e.g., sollen, wollen, dürfen) in various tenses to express different levels of certainty, necessity, or permission.

• Prepositions with Cases: Gain a deeper understanding of prepositions and their associated cases, especially with two-way prepositions (e.g., in, an, auf).

• Passive Voice: Learn and use the passive voice in both present and past tenses to describe processes or to emphasize the action rather than the subject.

6. Vocabulary

• Expanding Topic-Based Vocabulary: Broaden your vocabulary related to themes such as technology, the environment, work, and social issues.

• Idiomatic Expressions: Start using idiomatic expressions and collocations that are common in everyday German, enhancing the naturalness of your speech and writing.

• Academic and Professional Terms: Learn vocabulary relevant to your studies or profession, allowing you to discuss and write about work or academic topics with more precision.

• Synonyms and Antonyms: Increase your range of synonyms and antonyms to avoid repetition and to express nuances in meaning.

7. Cultural Awareness

• Cultural Norms and Values: Deepen your understanding of the cultural values, beliefs, and social norms in German-speaking countries, including attitudes towards work, education, and social responsibility.

• Current Events and Media: Engage with news and current events from German-speaking media, discussing and forming opinions on contemporary issues.

• Social and Cultural Topics: Explore cultural topics such as art, music, and literature from German-speaking countries, understanding their significance and relevance in modern society.

• Intercultural Communication: Develop skills to navigate cultural differences in communication, understanding and respecting variations in social etiquette and communication styles.

This B1 curriculum equips learners with the ability to interact more independently in German, both in everyday situations and in more structured or formal contexts. It sets the foundation for moving on to Level B2, where they will achieve greater fluency and accuracy in both spoken and written communication.