GermanCEFR A2 (Goethe / ÖSD / telc Syllabus)
German A2 Course
German Level A2: Elementary German (CEFR Standard)
The German A2 Course at PLTC is built for learners who have completed A1 and want to expand their conversational independence in everyday life.
"A2 proficiency allows you to communicate in routine tasks requiring a direct exchange of information on familiar matters, providing points for the German Opportunity Card (Chancenkarte)."
During this 2-month course, you move beyond simple present-tense phrases into past narratives and complex grammatical structures.
Key areas of focus include:
- Past Tense Narratives: Speaking about past events, travel experiences, and career history using the conversational past tense (Perfekt).
- Expanded Grammar: Working with the dative case, reflexive verbs, prepositions of place and time, and comparative adjectives.
- Practical Independence: Handling medical visits, banking, public office inquiries, and workplace communication.
Available on-campus in Lahore and live online across Pakistan.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Format
- Live + Recorded
- Duration
- 8 weeks
- Commitment
- 5 hrs / week
- Schedule
- Tue, Thu & Sat, 7:00–9:00 PM (PKT)
- Batch size
- 15 students max
What you'll learn
- Communicate comfortably in routine everyday and workplace scenarios.
- Describe past events
- background
- and personal experiences using the Perfekt tense.
- Understand the dative case and two-way prepositions (Wechselpräpositionen).
- Handle doctor appointments
- administrative inquiries
- and banking in German.
- Write formal emails
- job applications
- and personal letters.
- Pass the official Goethe-Zertifikat A2 exam.
Syllabus
Module 1 — Communication & Career
- Discussing education, work experience, and daily job routines
- Telephone conversations, leaving voicemails, and asking for clarification
- Review of A1 grammar and introduction to separable verbs
Module 2 — The Past Tense (Perfekt & Präteritum)
- Forming the Perfekt tense with haben and sein
- Regular and irregular past participles (Partizip II)
- Präteritum of modal verbs and auxiliary verbs (war, hatte)
Module 3 — Health, Housing & Urban Life
- Describing symptoms, body parts, and visiting the doctor (beim Arzt)
- Giving directions, using urban transit, and finding accommodation
- The Dative case: personal pronouns and dative verbs (helfen, gefallen)
Module 4 — Prepositions & Sentence Expansion
- Two-way prepositions (Wechselpräpositionen) with Accusative vs. Dative
- Subordinating conjunctions (weil, dass, wenn) and subordinate clause word order
- Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives
Module 5 — Goethe A2 Exam Training
- Timed practice across Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking sections
- Writing structured emails responding to invitations or formal inquiries
- Paired speaking simulations for the oral examination