German Language A1 Certificate - Goethe
Exam Preparation

Train Reading - Writing - Listening and Speaking For The German A1
Certificate With An Experienced Native Teacher

4.8 (99 ratings) 1,804 Student
Created by Sudha
Last updated 5/2023

What you’ll learn

  • At the A1 level you will learn to understand and use familiar, everyday expressions aimed at satisfying simple needs.
  • You will learn the use of simple greetings and farewells.
  • You will speak very simple sentences, like introducing yourself and asking others about themselves.
  • You will be able to tell where you live, what work you do, your hobbies, who you know and what you own, and respond to questions of this nature.
  • You will learn to indicate numbers, quantities, prices and times.
  • You will learn how to ask for something and reply to requests.
  • You will be guided on how you should answer to score high in the Goethe - Zertifikat A1 (Start Deutsch 1) exam, especially in the Writing and Speaking parts where your own creativity is required.

Course Content

PDF Notes

Speaking:

  1. Introduction of yourself and others
  2. Answering questions about your address, telephone number, occupation, hobbies and so on
  3. Professions
  4. Hobbies
  5. Eating and drinking
  6. Shopping
  7. The family
  8. The house
  9. Means of transport
  10. Time, months, seasons, directions
  11. Common items of clothing
  12. Places in the city
  13. Simple parts of the body
  14. Colours, etc.

Reading:

  1. Nouns – Gender (Masculine, Feminine, Neuter)
  2. Verbs – inseparable and separable, modal verbs, their conjugation
  3. Cases – Nominativ, Akkusativ and Dativ
  4. Prepositions
  5. Personal pronouns and possessive pronouns
  6. Adjectives
  7. Opposites
  8. Positive, Comparative and Superlative degree

Writing:

  1. Filling out a form
  2. Writing a letter or email to a friend
  3. Tenses – Present and Perfect
  4. The W-questions – What, Where, Why, When, Which, etc.

Listening:

  1. Announcements in a store or mall
  2. Announcements in a train, bus, train station, airport, etc.
  3. Announcements about weather
  4. Telephone conversations between two persons

This course includes

  • 8 videos of intensive training to prepare for the Goethe-Zertifikat A1 exam
  • 2 downloadable pdf files of training material and practice exercises
  • 3 downloadable A1 model tests of the Goethe Institut
  • Solutions of model tests including letter-writing and speaking parts
  • Word list for A1 level vocabulary
  • Book list which includes links to videos and supplementary practice material

Requirements

  1. Laptop or desktop computer or tablet
  2. Stable internet connection
  3. For the A1 level there is no requirement of prior knowledge of German

Description

This course will enable the learner to achieve the desired level of proficiency in the German language to be able to take the Goethe-Zertifikat A1 (Start Deutsch 1) exam. The course is divided into 2 parts – A1.1 and A1.2. There are 8 lesson videos – 4 each for A1.1 and A1.2. Each video builds on the previous one to help the learner with no knowledge of German to gradually progress to a proficiency level suitable for taking the Goethe-Zertifikat A1 exam of the Goethe Institut. All the study material and practice exercises will be available as downloadable pdf files.

Instructor

Sudha

German Teacher & Online Course Creator

Hello dear students,

I am Sudha, your German teacher. I started learning German in 1977 as my second language in Class 11. This was mostly the written form of the language with translation playing a major role in those days. My speaking skillls were quite limited. I actually started speaking German when I went to Germany to do research in Chemistry in 1991.

There were two women (eine chinesische Professorin und eine ungarische Studentin) who only spoke German besides their native language, because of which I was forced to speak German. This is when I realized that you don’t really know a language unless you can speak it – a learning experience that I am incorporating into my teaching method.

Some years ago, when I was teaching Chemistry to Engineering undergraduates, one day some students approached me with a surprising request. They had somehow found out that I knew German, and they wanted me to teach them. Unfortunately, I had to disappoint them at that time, but these students were the inspiration for me to teach German and I promised myself that I would, once I retired from Chemistry. I decided that I should teach German with the purpose of giving people the necessary boost to achieve their life’s goals.

And what is more appropriate than training them for the Goethe A1 and A2 exams for kickstarting their career? In order to do this meaningfully, I reasoned that I need to know first-hand how the Goethe exams are conducted, if my students are to genuinely benefit. Until then, I had not taken any exam of the Goethe Institut. I first took the C1 and then the C2 (GDS) exam. Passing these exams at the first attempt gave me a lot of insight as to how I need to tailor my teaching methods so that my students are able to pass the A1 and A2 exams at the first attempt. I wish you all the very best for the exams.

Sudha

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Course Level: A1

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This course includes:

8 videos of intensive training to prepare for the Goethe-Zertifikat A1 exam

2 downloadable pdf files of training material and practice exercises

3 downloadable A1 model tests of the Goethe Institut

Solutions of model tests including letter-writing and speaking parts

Word list for A1 level vocabulary

Book list which includes links to videos and supplementary practice material

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