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German for your job, internship and career
DUO module for your classes
Many students sooner or later gain experience in the world of work - be it in an internship to apply their course content or in a part-time job to finance their studies. For most jobs, students need at least a basic knowledge of German.
DUO's ‘German for part-time jobs and internships’ module is suitable for students with previous knowledge of German at level A2 who would like to improve their language skills and, in particular, develop their professional reading, listening, writing and speaking skills.
Module content is geared towards the typical everyday life of an employee. Students acquire vocabulary relevant to the world of work, appropriate vocabulary and selected grammar at level B1 of the CEFR.
Content
Language skills
- find out about the regional and national labour market
- extract relevant information from job adverts and compare it with their own profile
- state your own wishes and goals in connection with a job/internship
- Make appropriate contact with companies
- introduce yourself briefly and concisely
Non-linguistic knowledge
- Offers of support in the application process
Topics
- Typical part-time jobs
- Job and internship goals
- Job offers
- Online job portals
- Job matching events
- Company expectations
- Curriculum vitae
- Your own profile
- Cover letter
- Request for interview
Grammar
- Final clauses with ‘damit’ and ‘um ... zu’ + infinitive
- temporal prepositions with dative
- 90 Exercises
Language skills
- Respond appropriately to questions in a job interview
- convincingly provide relevant information about yourself, your experience and competences
- Ask for relevant information
- Obtain confirmation of relevant information about starting work
Non-linguistic knowledge
- Strategic and content-related preparation for a job interview
- Dress and body language in job interviews
Topics
- Purpose of job interviews
- Formal and informal interviews
- Preparation for job interviews
- Body language
- Dress for an interview
Grammar
- Two-part connectors
- Verbs with prepositions
- Future tense I
- 82 Exercises
Language skills
- extract basic information from an employment contract regarding the resulting rights and obligations
- compare information from job adverts and interviews with the content of an employment contract
- politely point out errors and clarify misunderstandings
- Write a formal email to correct and amend the employment contract and provide appropriate reasoning for the assessment
Non-linguistic knowledge
- Basic knowledge of labour law
- Counselling institutions
Topics
- Types of contract
- Typical contents of employment contracts
- Working time models
- Working time regulations
- Remuneration
- Working conditions
Grammar
- Temporal prepositions with genitive
- Real conditional clauses with ‘if’ and ‘if’
- Genitive attributes
- Word formation: prefix ‘-un’
- 75 Exercises
Language skills
- describe the working environment and place of work, describe work processes
- extract the relevant information for an internship project from departmental descriptions
- obtain information in formal and informal situations, ask questions, ask for help appropriately and pass on information in the appropriate register
- signalise active listening by paraphrasing, asking questions and summarising
- Taking notes on a conversation with the team leader
Non-linguistic knowledge
- Organisation charts
- Conventions on the first day of work
Topics
- Feelings
- Office supplies
- Data protection
- Health and safety
- Department profiles Occupational health and safety, warehouse, marketing
- Sustainability
- Hierarchies and organisational structures
Grammar
- Infinitive clauses
- Verbs with dative and accusative
- 76 Exercises
Language skills
- respond appropriately in writing and orally to customer enquiries and complaints
- pass on relevant information between departments in writing
- report a customer enquiry orally to the team leader and ask for advice
Non-linguistic knowledge
- Spelling chart according to DIN standard
- Communication strategies in customer contact
Topics
- Emotions
- Activities in customer service
- Typical customer service enquiries
- Types of communication and customers
- Digitalisation in communication with customers
Grammar
- Participle II as an adjective
- Relative clauses with genitive attributes
- Relative clauses with prepositions
- 70 Exercises
Language skills
- Report on team collaboration
- request a holiday replacement via the staff chat
- analyse and evaluate written explanations of other people's tasks and work processes
- describe relevant work processes in writing and verbally in a way that is comprehensible to others
- pass on factual information to your own replacement in a semi-formal email
Non-linguistic knowledge
- Company regulations on the subject of ‘holidays’
Topics
- Working in a team
- Substitutions and handovers
- Work processes and instructions
- Analysing diagrams
Grammar
- Past perfect tense with the conjunctions ‘before’ and ‘after’
- Passive present tense
- 61 Exercises
Language skills
- extract relevant information on rights and obligations in the event of illness from an expert interview
- extract relevant information on behaviour in the event of illness from laws and employment contracts
- report sick in writing or verbally
- pass on important information and assessments on behaviour in the event of illness to colleagues
Non-linguistic knowledge
- Legal regulations in the event of illness
Topics
- Illnesses and symptoms
- Notification of illness
- Rights and obligations in the event of illness
Grammar
- Causal structures
- Compound nouns
- 56 Exercises
Language skills
- Revise a draft text of an internship report
- resign in writing and ask for a reference letter
- understand typical formulations in job references and extract relevant information from a job reference
- make oral proposals and reasoning for the assessment
- conduct a formal interview at the end of an employment relationship and convincingly represent your own interests with regard to your future career
- thank colleagues in an email for working with you and say goodbye to them
Non-linguistic knowledge
- Job references
- Strategies for preparing the content of a final interview
Topics
- Documentation of work experience
- Internship report
- Job references and other evidence
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Leaving a job and leaving the company
Grammar
- ‘despite’ with genitive
- 67 Exercises
DUO for institutions
DUO modules for universities and educational institutions allow you to supplement your German lessons in a targeted manner. No matter whether digital learning modules for self-learning or in combination with your classroom teaching - we will be happy to advise you on site with regard to your requirements.
