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2025-2026 / LANG9908-1

Handelsdeutsch - Teil 1 (B1)

Duration

27h Th

Number of credits

 Master in sales management, professional focus (en alternance)3 crédits 

Lecturer

Marie Mawhin

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course is aimed at students who already have a good basic knowledge of German and wish to develop their knowledge of business and sales vocabulary and to improve the five skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking and talking) in a sales-related context.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

This course will

  • help students to communicate efficiently, internally and externally, about a company, organization or project.
  • allow students to improve their proficiency in German as a foreign language
  • allow students to raise their awareness of the multicultural and international features of their environment.
  • encourage students to be curious and to show a scientific precision of academic level.
 
Level that can be reached at the end of the Master programme: European level B1 (even better if /B2)

 

 

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Students should already have the European level B1 or at least a very good A2

 This class is not intended for beginners! 

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is as active as possible:

Different sales and business topics can be covered, for example:



  • von seiner Ausbildung und seinem Praktikum sprechen
  • seine Firma präsentieren
  • Zahlen und Graphiken vorstellen
  • Geschäftsreisen und erste Kontakte mit Kunden
  • eventuell: Geschäftsessen
  • eventuell: Werbeartikel
  • eventuell: Small Talk und Networking
  • eventuell: Lebenslauf

For each topic,

  • specific vocabulary will be presented on the basis of written, audio and video documents
  • then students will practise the five skills (writing, reading, oral comprehension, presentation, dialogue)
  • punctual grammar reviews
 

 

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

Face-to-face course


Further information:

Learning, training and drill exercises in class, as much as possible, supplemented by some home work.

 

 

 

Course materials and recommended or required readings

PLEASE REGULARLY CHECK LOL@ FOR NEW INFORMATION.

Book and lecture notes:





  • Exercises and course documents on line on Lol@.
  • We will use the Interreg online module EUR.friends "Allemand pour francophones" from the website www.commart.eu
Other documents

Possibly press articles, listening and video activities.

Recommended books

A translating dictionary, for example Harrap's or Langenscheidt - or an online dictionary , for example Leo or PONS

A grammar book, for example: H. DREYER and R. SCHMITT: Grammaire allemande avec exercices. Hueber, or : H. BOUILLON: "Grammaire pratique de l'allemand", De Boeck, 3e édition, 2008.

 

Exam(s) in session

Any session

- In-person

written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions ) AND oral exam

Written work / report


Further information:

EXAM: 

Written exam: 
- listening and reading comprehension

- grammar and vocabulary

- essay

Oral exam:

- Role plays

- Open questions

- oral presentation


The student who doesn't take all the parts of the exam will get a 0/20 as final mark. 

 

 

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

 

 

Contacts

Marie Mawhin

marie.mawhin@uliege.be

Office 2/19, N1 a (rue Louvrex)

00 32 (0) 4 232 72 75

 

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