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B1.1 Work, Media & The Past

B1.1 helps you become more precise and independent.

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Course format

Course format and details

Format
8 live sessions, 3 hours each
2 sessions per week over 4 weeks
Teaching units
32 teaching units
A teaching unit is 45 minutes
Group size
Max 10
Participants per group
CEFR
CEFR-aligned
A1-B1 learning path
Support
German with support
English, Urdu, Hindi & Kashmiri
Level
A1, A2, B1
Levels covered

By the end

This course part helps you:

  • communicate more naturally in daily and professional life
  • understand the main points of clear standard German
  • participate actively in longer conversations
  • explain experiences, opinions, and plans in detail
  • handle many situations at work, university, or while travelling
  • write structured emails and short reports
  • follow conversations between native speakers more easily

Who this course is for

  • Learners who have completed A2 or can handle common everyday German
  • People who need more confident German for work and daily life
  • Learners preparing to express opinions and experiences in longer conversations

Before you start

You should be comfortable with A2 topics, perfect tense, basic cases and routine conversations.

What you will practise

  • Time and activities
  • Punctuality
  • Leisure: Museums
  • Leisure: Visual arts
  • Professions
  • Problems at the workplace
  • Making appointments
  • Business etiquette
  • Reading
  • The past and childhood
  • Media
  • Advertising: Impact and history
  • Advertising: Products and their characteristics
  • Complaints

Grammar focus

  • Past tenses: Perfect / Simple Past (Präteritum) / Past Perfect (Plusquamperfekt)
  • Verbs with prepositions
  • Question words
  • Modal verbs, brauchen + zu
  • Subjunctive II (polite requests, wishes, past situations)
  • Verbs with dative and accusative
  • N-declension
  • Time expressions
  • Temporal adverbs
  • Reflexive verbs
  • Passive voice
  • Comparison of adjectives
  • Genitive case
  • Relative clauses

Interested in B1.1 Work, Media & The Past?

Send a non-binding enquiry. I will reply within two working days about your level, schedule and payment options. Your place is confirmed separately.

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