The series Campus Deutsch

consists of the volumes Listen and take notes, Read, Writing and Presenting and discussing. It is designed for students at the transition from language training to specialised studies at a German-speaking university. The course material helps learners to master the beginning of their degree programme both linguistically and methodically.

With the designated app for Campus Deutsch teachers and learners can easily and quickly access the audios and videos as well as the additional Word documents and PDFs from Campus Deutsch .

Campus German - Listening and taking notes

The volume contains five authentic lectures. They are part of the series Auditorium of SWR (now part of the podcast series SWR2 Knowledge) and deal with current topics from various specialist areas.

Students learn techniques that enable them to follow academic lectures or presentations with understanding and to take notes in such a way that these lectures can be recapitulated on the basis of the notes. In the basic chapter, techniques of active and anticipatory listening as well as essential note-taking techniques are taught. These techniques are expanded and deepened in the following chapters. The contents of the lectures deal with

  • Language and society
  • The origin of violence
  • Rich and poor in Germany
  • The memory of genes
  • Deceleration of the city

The modules after the basic chapter are self-contained. They can be used in any order.

Campus Deutsch Listening and taking notes

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