In this B1 Step 3 course you will learn …

… to communicate in an office environment, when to use the polite form Sie and the familiar form Du, how to interact with your colleagues, how to decline assignments politely, talk about processes and understand manuals. The types of texts and media you will be studying are interviews, product descriptions, manuals, and texts from internet forums.

To do these things, you will study …

Grammar

  • Two-part conjunctions “sowohl … als auch, weder … noch, je … desto /umso“: Je größer der Stress, desto schlechter wird die Stimmung.
  • Conjunctions “während, falls, nachdem, bevor, als ob“: Er tut so, als ob er arbeitet, aber …

  • Relative sentences starting with “wo“ and “was“: Das, was du suchst, …

  • Present participle used as an adjective: wohltun → wohltuend

Vocabulary

  • Work and office: die Zusammenarbeit, die Atmosphäre, das Betriebsklima, sich krank melden, …
  • Technology and digital media: die Datei, der Virus, herunterladen, anschließen, anklicken, …
  • Products and adverstising: die Werbung, die Bedienungsanleitung, beschreiben, das Passwort, das Symbol, …
  • Complaints: der Umtausch, der Beleg, die Lieferung, der Hersteller, wegwerfen, …

… and much more.

Requirements

You can already talk about many topics. You can describe sequences of events in the past and use many logical sentence connections.

To participate in the course, you need a computer, tablet or just a smartphone, a stable internet connection and a microphone and camera if they are not built into the device you are using.