Small Group German Classes in London | Elementary A2.1
Daytime, evening and weekend German classes in central London and online
Elementary German part 1 – level A2.1
Small group German classes for elementary learners.
This German course is aimed at those who have completed level A1, GCSE or A Levels in German.
Course fees
£430 online
£530 in person
Course duration and group size
The classes take place every week for 90 minutes. At least 4 students are required to run the course for 10 weeks.
Course format
The course is largely structured around a textbook which provides a clear structure and allows us to track progression. The sessions are supplemented with worksheets, grammar exercises and other learning materials of various formats.
We incorporate plenty of listening and speaking exercises in class, to give you an opportunity to put the theory you learn into practice.
Your weekly homework consist of repetition, reinforcement and consolidation of material covered in class.
Start dates
Monday 28 October 2024 at 18:30-20:00 (online)
Tuesday 7 January 2025 at 18:40-20:10 (in person)
Thursday 16 January 2025 at 13:40-15:10 (in person)
It is possible to join the group once the course has started (subject to availability) after a few catch up sessions with your German tutor to get you up to speed.
Course content
You will learn aspects of German grammar and their application in real-life communications, such as:
- Refresher on the German case system and its functions (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive)
- Adjectives — describing things and making comparisons (intensifiers with comparatives and superlatives)
- Talking about family and friends
- Talking about celebrations, customs; making and responding to invitations
- Going shopping; describing what one likes or does not like to wear
- Giving and asking advice
- Talking about society and country in which one’s lived, living abroad
- Talking about education, school system
- Modal verbs e.g. müssen (must), sollen (should) in the simple past tense
- Local prepositions — describing one’s home and immediate surrounding
- Word order rules; sentence structures and subordinating conjunctions e.g. weil, wenn and dass
- The conjunction weil (because) — to express opinion, observation and substantiate an argument
- The conjunction wenn (if) — conditional sentences, talking about possibility, things that are not certain, repeated actions
- Reading comprehension — simple statistics, ads