The textbook for everyone who lives or wants to live in a German-speaking country – in a new edition. What is plus in plus steps? Don’t want to miss the tried and tested parts of successful tutorial steps? Would you like a textbook that applies the requirements of the academic framework of the Federal Office of the Interior and prepares you for the new German test for immigrants – in an attractive and fun way? Then Steps Plus is the textbook for you, with an added bonus in… – Flexibility with extra ‘breaks’ and ‘focus pages’ – Interesting texts and various regional studies – Extensive test preparation in exam books for all important exams – New additions material Such as exercise rules, booklets for storyboarding with pictures, brochures and professional language materials. Target group: adults and young people in institutions in a German-speaking country; Educated abroad who want to prepare for life (study or work) in a German-speaking country. Learning objective: Steps plus is strictly based – on the specification of the Common European Framework of Reference – on the specification of the framework curriculum of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Two volumes of the six-volume textbook each leading to levels A1, A2 and B1 and preparation for the corresponding exams. You can find detailed information on all tests on the Internet at www.hueber.de/daf/pruefungen (http://www.hueber.de/daf/pruefungen).
The course book facilitates relevant topics for every day: Steps as well as integration into everyday life for German speakers: Important areas in family life and the world of work take up a lot of space. The addendum: Steps plus covers all daily and job-related learning objectives within the most important areas of work from work to life, defined within the framework of the curricula of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. Transparent structure: the lessons are short and the structure is clear. The sequence of exercises and tasks at each learning step is transparent to teachers and learners. Audio picture story as an introduction to each lesson: Episodes of entertaining audio picture story form the beginning and frame of each lesson. The story provides opportunities for identification, implicitly conveys regional knowledge and also trains global listening comprehension. Plus: Breaks for each lesson encourage the creative use of interesting reading and listening texts and convey regional knowledge. add: The language activities, grammar and vocabulary fulfill the requirements of the new German language test for immigrants (level A2-B1), which is compulsory for participants of integration courses. Internal differentiation: Steps plus offers many possibilities for internal differentiation. This allows course instructors to specifically address the different needs of learning groups. The Integrated Workbook offers exercises and assignments on all pages of the course book at different levels of difficulty Detailed audio program Teaching diary, which teaches important learning strategies Learning vocabulary pages Writing practice Self-assessment tasks Repeating exercises Additional stations: Teaching vocabulary Integrated for every lesson – Systematically structured writing practice – Exercises that guide you to self-discovery of grammatical structures Steps plus Optionally available with integrated workbook -CD. Presents – Listening texts and audio exercises for the workbook – Addendum: Computer interactive repetition exercises for all lessons. Additional pages: Emphasis address the educational objectives of the Federal Office of the Interior and offer many additional materials on topics family, work and everyday life to meet the specific needs of the study group. – Integrated educational vocabulary for each lesson –
Systematically structured writing practice – exercises that guide you in self-discovering grammatical structures, Steps plus are optionally available with a CD-ROM built into the workbook. Presents – Listening texts and audio exercises for the workbook – Addendum: Computer interactive repetition exercises for all lessons. Additional pages: Emphasis address the educational objectives of the Federal Office of the Interior and offer many additional materials on topics family, work and everyday life to meet the specific needs of the study group. – Integrated didactic vocabulary for each lesson – Systematically structured written practice – Exercises that guide you in self-discovery of grammatical structures Steps plus is optionally available with a CD-ROM integrated into the workbook. Presents – Listening texts and audio exercises for the workbook – Addendum: Computer interactive repetition exercises for all lessons. Additional pages cover:
