Why Learn German?
German is a language of global importance and the mother tongue of one of the world’s richest economies, Germany. In Luxembourg, German is a very important language that is taught in secondary schools and used by a wide range of institutions.
GTL Training offers year-round courses of different duration and intensity. Our training center is located in the heart of Esch-sur-Alzette, just a few minutes’ walk from Place de l’Hotel de Ville.
Our highly qualified trainers offer several modules of German courses according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) for all learning levels, from beginners to highly advanced.
All our students go through a placement test prior to the beginning of any course to ensure that they study in a learning group appropriate to their actual level. Our classes are held in small groups consisting of five and up to a maximum of twelve students per session.
Our German courses prepare students for the linguistic reality of everyday language usage. Our instructors focus on oral and written communication skills, making sure students consolidate and perfect their productive, speaking and writing; and receptive, (reading and listening) skills. Each course date offers groups for levels from A1 to C1.
Our students have the opportunity to complete their courses with an officially recognized language test at their respective language level.
The six language levels
The “A” Levels: Basic User
A1 | Beginner
At the A1 CEFR level, a language learner can:
♦ Understand and use very basic expressions to satisfy concrete needs.
♦ Introduce themselves and ask questions about personal details.
♦ Interact simply as long as the other person speaks slowly and clearly.
A2 | Elementary
At the A2 CEFR level, a language learner can:
♦ Understand frequently used expressions in most intermediate areas such as shopping, family, employment, etc.
♦ Complete tasks that are routine and involve a direct exchange of information.
♦ Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.
II. The “B” Levels: Independent User
B1 | Intermediate
At the B1 CEFR level, a language learner can:
♦ Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.
♦ Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.
♦ Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.
♦ Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.
B2 | Upper Intermediate
At the B2 CEFR level, a language learner can:
♦ Understand the main ideas of a complex text such as a technical piece related to their field.
♦ Spontaneously interact without too much strain for either the learner or the native speaker.
♦ Produce a detailed text on a wide range of subjects.
III. The “C” Levels: Proficient User
C1 | Advanced
At the C1 CEFR level, a language learner can:
♦ Understand a wide range of longer and more demanding texts or conversations.
♦ Express ideas without too much searching.
♦ Effectively use the language for social, academic or professional situations.
♦ Create well-structured and detailed texts on complex topics.
C2 | Proficiency
At the C2 CEFR level, a language learner can:
♦ Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.
♦ Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.
♦ Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.
GTL Training offers the following German language courses:
The Intensive Course:
The intensive courses are offered year-round at the levels A1, A2, B1, B2 and C1
During these classes, everyday topics are used to teach relevant grammar and vocabulary. All language skills (oral and written communication, grammar, listening and reading comprehension) are strengthened and practiced. The Intensive Course is offered 5 days a week (15 sessions/week).
Group Size:
Our groups consist of at least 5 up to a maximum of 12 students. The small course groups guarantee that all students are trained individually and can actively participate in lessons. These courses also increase one-to-one interaction as well as students talking time.
Evening Courses:
Our evening courses are structured to assist students in dealing with everyday linguistic situations thereby fostering their confidence while using the German language. We offer our students the option of completing their language course with an officially recognized language test.
GTL Training offers evening classes for learners at all levels from A1 to C1. Every course begins with a placement test.
Group Size:
Our groups consist of at least 5 and up to a maximum of 12 students. The small course groups guarantee that all students receive personal attention and can actively participate in lessons.
Who Is Concerned?
This course targets students and professionals who aim at improving their German language fluency and capacity quickly and efficiently. Most of our participants do not have enough time to study during the day and prefer learning during evenings.
GTL Training offers courses at the rate of 2 to 5 evenings per week depending on the participants’ availability. We also offer the possibility to change through courses depending on the personal situation of the participant.
Conversational German Course:
This course is designed to enhance your conversational abilities, starting from the basics of greeting and introducing oneself up to the advanced skills of making intricate statements. The Conversational Course helps learners maintain great conversations with German speaking counterparts. This course also increases participants’ level of self-confidence in using the German language.
Group Size:
Our groups consist of at least 5 and up to a maximum of 12 students. The small course groups guarantee that all students receive personal attention and can actively participate in lessons.
German Courses per Levels
German Beginner Level 1 Course (BLC01):
This Beginner’s Course covers the first 8 units of the A1 German language book.
Topics & Vocabulary:
♦ Introductions: greetings, saying how you are, where you come from, where you live, what you do, telephone number, marital status, children, etc.
♦ Introducing professions
♦ Identifying the alphabet and numbers
♦ Speaking and writing about family and friends
♦ Knowing prices and shopping-related vocabulary
♦ Asking about things and describing things – likes and dislikes
♦ Telephoning, emails and texting.
♦ Confirming and cancelling an appointment
♦ Knowing the different times of the day
♦ Talking about abilities
♦ Asking for permission
♦ Making arrangements
♦ Talking about hobbies and leisure time activities – likes and dislikes
Grammar:
♦ Making basic affirmative and negative statements
♦ Asking different types of questions
♦ Practicing verb endings of regular and some irregular verbs in the present tense
♦ Using “You” – formal and informal
♦ Identifying and using basic sentence structure
♦ Using gender and indefinite/ definite articles / possessive articles / negation
♦ Introducing pronouns (Nominative)
♦ Differentiating between the singular and plural forms
♦ Using separable verbs
♦ Accusative case
Skills Development:
♦ Lots of speaking: simulations of situational exercises & interaction
♦ Mastering basic pronunciation rules
♦ Mastering writing basics
German Beginner Level 2 Course (BLC02):
This is the completion of German Beginner 1. This course builds on the previously acquired knowledge and carries on covering a more detailed use of the German language.
Thèmes et vocabulaire :
♦ Talking about food and drink.
♦ Asking for information – getting around town
♦ Talking about past events
♦ Schedules and timetables – daily activities
♦ Dates, months, seasons
…
♦ Talking about travel
♦ Interviews
♦ Asking and giving directions
♦ Everyday life situations
♦ Giving descriptions and making opinions
♦ Asking for help
Grammar :
♦ Perfect tense
♦ Modal verbs
♦ Accusative and Genitive pronouns
..
♦ Adverbs of time
♦The dative case
♦Prepositions of place, time and modal
Cultural Content:
♦ Situational exercises & interaction
♦ Revisiting pronunciation rules and numbers
♦ Plenty of listening activities
♦ Writing practice e.g. a simple letter (enquiry), emails, texts, biographies
Skills Development:
♦ Situational exercises & interaction
♦ Revisiting pronunciation rules and numbers
♦ Listening activities
♦ Writing practice: simple letters, emails, texts, etc.
German Beginner Level 3 Course (BLC03):
This course builds on the previous Beginner 2 course and carries on basic language acquisition through a series of activities and fun-filled classes.
Topics & Vocabulary:
♦ Talking about plans and wishes
♦ Naming parts of the body
♦ Giving advice
♦ Making requests and giving orders
♦ Talking about people
♦ Describing activities in the house
.
♦ Giving explanations
♦ Talking about rules: traffic, etc.
♦ Talking about clothes
♦ Describing the weather
♦ Making invitations
♦ Giving congratulations
Grammar :
♦ Modal verbs
♦ The Past Tense
♦ Usage of Perfect and Past
♦ Conjunctions
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♦ Imperative form
♦ Conjunctive form
♦ Comparisons and Similarities
Cultural Content:
♦ Climate, weather, seasonal activities
Skills Development:
♦ Speaking activities and group interaction
♦ Writing practice e.g. text messages/short e-mails
♦ Listening activities
German Elementary Level 1 Course (ELC01):
This course covers one third of the perquisites of the A2 level.
Topics & Vocabulary:
♦ Describing family activities and events.
♦ Talking about careers
♦ Telling family stories
♦ Giving orders
♦ Using and moving equipment, furniture
♦ Talking about shopping
♦ Making plans together
.
♦ Making suggestions and expressing preferences
♦ Giving opinions about travel and tourism
♦ Reading brochures and displays
♦ Describing the landscapes and the natural world
♦ Talking about health, sickness, accidents: Expressing sympathy and hope
Grammaire :
♦ Review of verbs (Past, Perfect, Imperative)
♦ Directional and temporal adverbs
♦ Prepositions of movement and state
♦ Time prepositions
♦ Conjunctions
♦ Conjunctive II
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♦ Adjectives and the indefinite and definite articles
♦ Word-building (verb + -er, -ung)
♦ Subordinate clauses
♦ Verbs plus preposition
♦ Dative-object, dative pronoun and accusative pronoun
Cultural Content:
♦ Travelling
♦ Foreigners in Germany
♦ Health and fitness
♦ School and education
Skills Development:
♦ Speaking activities & interaction
♦ Writing practice
♦ Listening activities
German Elementary Level 2 Course (ELC02):
This course covers the second third of the A2 level.
Topics & Vocabulary:
♦ Describing work-related settings
♦ Expressing importance and interest
♦ Talking about eating out
♦ Ordering, asking about things
♦ Making complaints
♦ Giving thanks and congratulations
♦ Making comparisons
♦ Talking about nutrition, food and drink
♦ Expressing surprise and pleasure
♦ Talking about language learning experiences
♦ Making hotel reservations
♦ Asking for/giving directions & getting around
Grammar:
♦ Revisiting previous level’s grammar
♦ Present passive
♦ Verbs with the dative and accusative
♦ Abject position
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♦ Indirect questions
♦ Adjectives after the “zero” article
♦ Reflexive verbs
♦ Place prepositions
Skills Development:
♦ Speaking activities & interaction ♦ Listening activities
♦ Writing practice
German Elementary Level 3 Course (ELC03):
This course covers the final perquisites of the A2 level.
Topics & Vocabulary:
♦ Planning holidays and travel
♦ Booking online
♦ Talking about money and banking
♦ Talking about the weather
♦ Urging and convincing
♦ Expressing hesitation
♦ Talking and calendar events
.
♦ Expressing interest and lack of interest
♦ Reports and descriptions
♦ Giving explanations and reasons
♦ Education and training
♦ Expressing satisfaction and dissatisfaction
♦ Expressing pleasure and disappointment
Grammar:
♦ Verbs with prepositions
♦ Past tense of modal verbs
♦ Question and prepositional adverbs
♦ Question articles
♦ Demonstrative pronouns
.
♦ Auxiliary verbs
♦ Conjunctions
♦ Relatives pronouns
♦ The Past Tense
German Intermediate Level 1 Course (ILC01):
This Intermediate course Level 1 covers the first third of the B1 Level.
Topics & Vocabulary:
♦ Describing and talking about people
♦ personality traits
♦ Reporting on past events
♦ Talking about statistics
♦ Making complaints
♦ Making Conjectures for the future
♦ Making invitations
♦ Speaking to customers
♦ Talking about stance – strongly or weakly
Grammar:
♦ Adjectives as nouns
♦ The -n declension
♦ The Past
♦ Relative pronouns and relative clauses (dative, prepositions)
♦ Future I
♦ The infinitive with zu
Skills Development:
♦ Speaking activities & interaction
♦ Writing practice
♦ Listening activities
German Intermediate Level 2 Course (ILC02):
This course covers the second third of the B1 level.
Topics & Vocabulary:
♦ Sports, Wellbeing, Nutrition: giving presentations
♦ Expressing disappointment: If only …
♦ Everyday breakdowns
♦ Everyday happy moments
♦ Good and bad luck – talking about feelings.
♦ Letters and emails – invitations, cancellations, commitments
♦ Operational events
.
♦ Talking about misunderstandings
♦ Asking for clarification
♦ Making suggestions
♦ Planning further development
♦ Job applications and interviews
♦ Youth experiences: stories and reacting to stories
♦ Memories and relationships
Grammar:
♦ Comparative and Superlative
♦ Past subjunctive
♦ Past-of-the-past
♦ The Genitive
♦ Cause and result conjunctions and adverbs
♦ Present and past participles as adjectives
♦ Two-part conjunctions
Cultural Content:
♦ Relationships, customs and habits
Skills Development:
♦ Speaking activities & interaction
♦ Writing practice
♦ Listening activities
German Intermediate Level 3 Course (ILC03):
This course covers the third and last part of the B1 Level.
Topics & Vocabulary:
♦ Life stories
♦ Art and Painting
♦ Politics and Society
♦ Discussions and expressing considered opinions
♦ Countryside and Tourism
♦ Giving presentations
♦ Fielding questions
♦ In the mountains
.
♦ Booking in
♦ Discussing dos and don’ts
♦ Concerts and Events
♦ History and the Past
♦ Consultation, approval, indifference
♦ Expression conviction
Grammar:
♦ Expressions with es
♦ Two-part conjunctions
.
♦ Place and time preposition-particles
♦ Passive Present of modal verbs
Cultural Content:
♦ German history and current affairs
Skills Development:
♦ Speaking activities & interaction
♦ Writing practice
♦ Listening activities
German Upper Intermediate Course (UIC):
This course covers the requirements of the B2 Level.
♦ Telling personal experiences.
♦ Describing personal experiences and feelings.
♦ Giving different opinions.
♦ Having controversial discussions with friends and family.
♦ Having everyday conversations.
♦ Describing problems, discussing solutions.
♦ Discussing with others and making joint plans.
♦ Negotiating compromise.
♦ Seeking and offering advice or help
♦ Making arrangements.
♦ Describing things and people.
♦ Summarizing and giving specific information
♦ Making presentations
♦ Telling a personal experience.
♦ Describing personal experiences and sensations.
♦ Representing one’s own area of interest.
♦ Conducting everyday conversations
♦ Describing problems, discuss solutions
♦ Planning something together.
♦ Participating in formal discussions.
♦ Negotiating compromises.
♦ Seeking and offering advice or help.
♦ Briefly describing something or someone.
♦ Summarizing and give specific information.
♦ Giving a short lecture.
Grammar :
♦ Conjunctions
♦ adverbs
♦ Adjectives: declinations, comparison, transformation into nouns
♦ Temporal conjunctions
♦ Past tenses
♦Generic use of es and das
.
♦ Indirect speech
♦ Temporal prepositions and adverbs
♦ Final conjunctions
♦ Reflexive verbs
♦ Word construction: verbs and adjectives
Cultural Content:
♦ Social life: friendship, online dating, etc.
♦ Current affair
♦German Media and Politics
Skills Development:
♦ Speaking activities & interaction
♦ Writing practice
♦ Listening activities
German Advanced Level Course (ALC):
This course covers all the requirements of the C1 Level.
Topics & Vocabulary:
♦ Explain a meaning context
♦ Highlighting differences and similarities
♦ Giving reasons for something
♦Describing something interculturally
♦ Explaining something by example
♦ Explaining a term to argue controversially
♦Arguing directly in controversy
♦ Reflecting upon one’s own expectations
♦ Relating something
♦ Requesting/rejecting assistance
♦ Weighing something spontaneously
♦ Canceling something at short notice
♦ Responding to a short-term cancellation
♦ Making/responding to a complaint
♦ Making spontaneous reactions to a decision
♦ Making reactions with different intentionsGiving advice
♦ Formulating tolerance
♦ Expressing incomprehension/compassion
♦ Describing/explaining a statistic/graph
♦ Commenting, rating, suggesting something
♦Presenting statements by an author
♦ Rendering arguments from texts
♦ Expressing unfulfilled expectations
♦ Contributing/commenting in a discussion
♦ Talking about something very unusual
♦ Discussing all speech intentions
♦ Taking the floor
♦ Finding an agreement
♦ Justifying a decision
Grammar:
♦ Questions with information
♦ Conjectures with and without subjunctive II
♦ negation
♦ noun-verb connections
♦ nominalizations
♦ Speaker signals: Well, well, as I said …
♦ Present in context
♦ Nominalization: meaning variants
♦ Article by name
♦ Quantities
♦ Become: past participle I
♦ Limitations: impersonal speech
♦ Location information by attribution
♦ Exaggerations and generalizations
♦ Past participle I as an adjective
♦ Negation: prefix
♦ The place before the verb
♦ The post after the end of the sentence
♦ Relative clause
♦ Attribution
♦ Quantities
♦ Become: past participle I
♦ Prepositions of the written language
♦ Sentence & text structures
Cultural Content:
♦ Social life: friendship, online dating, etc.
♦ Current affairs
♦ German 20th century history
♦ Traditional celebrations in German-speaking countries
♦ German Media and Politics
Skills Development:
♦ Speaking activities & interaction
♦ Writing practice
♦ Listening activities
