Medienkompetenz und Meinungsbildung

Critically analyse media, recognise bias, and use complex sentence connectors in argumentation.

Module 4 of German B2 · about 100 minutes · 14 new words.

Lessons in this module

• Vocabulary — Flashcards with spaced repetition
• Grammar — Rules, tables and guided drills
• Reading — Texts with comprehension questions
• Listening — Listen, transcribe, understand
• Writing — Guided tasks with instant feedback
• Speaking — Say it, hear it, get a score
• Conversation — Real conversations, line by line
• Module quiz — Check what this module taught

Grammar in this module

• Konnektoren: obwohl, dennoch, trotzdem, indem, sodass — B2 argumentation needs a rich set of subordinating and adverbial connectors beyond weil/dass/wenn.
• Partizip I and II as adjectives, and the gerundive (zu + Partizip I) — Beyond extended attributes, single participles routinely function as ordinary adjectives, and zu + Partizip I expresses necessity or possibility in a compact way.

Vocabulary you will meet

die Berichterstattung · die Voreingenommenheit · die Quelle · die Falschmeldung · die Reichweite · beeinflussen · die Filterblase · objektiv · manipulieren · die Öffentlichkeit and 4 more. Every word is stored with its article and an example sentence, then scheduled for review by spaced repetition.

Reading: Die Macht der Filterblase. Conversation: Ein Streit über eine Nachricht.

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