• understand and discuss written articles and audio texts (e.g. interviews) on current topics in contemporary German speaking countries and internationally
• analyse graphic charts on current statistics
• complain or answer upon a complaint on the telephone or in an email
• conduct a telephone call in a formal (business) context
• discuss and solve a problem in a team setting and present a strategy
• develop a business idea and present it
• talk about and write essays on relevant and current topics in contemporary society and economics in German speaking countries and globally and expressing their own opinion

• Listening comprehension:

e.g.: Can follow extended discourse and complex lines of argument, provided the topic is reasonably familiar, and the direction of the argument is signposted by explicit markers.
Can understand announcements and messages on concrete and abstract topics delivered in standard language or a familiar variety at normal speed.

• Reading comprehension

e.g.: Can read correspondence relating to their field of interest and readily grasp the essential meaning.
Can scan longer texts in order to locate desired information, and gather information from different parts of a text, or from different texts in order to fulfil a specific task.
Can understand articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems in which particular stances or viewpoints are adopted.

• Speaking

e.g.: Can give clear, detailed descriptions and presentations on a wide range of subjects related to their field of interest, expanding and supporting ideas with subsidiary points and relevant examples.
Can construct a chain of reasoned argument.
Can explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
Can give a prepared straightforward presentation on a familiar topic within their field which is clear enough to be followed without difficulty most of the time, and in which the main points are explained with reasonable precision.

• Writing

e.g.: Can produce short, simple essays on topics of interest.
Can summarise, report and give their opinion about accumulated factual information on familiar routine and non-routine matters within their field with some confidence.

• Oral interaction

e.g.: Can (in formal meetings) follow much of what is said that is related to their field, provided interlocutors avoid very idiomatic usage and articulate clearly.
Can contribute, account for and sustain their opinion, evaluate alternative proposals and make and respond to hypotheses.

(Corresponding to the descriptors of the CEFR https://www.coe.int/en/web/common-european-framework-reference-languages/cefr-descriptors)

• of syntax (e.g. active and passive voice)
• of pronunciation rules (segmental, e.g. consonant clusters and suprasegmental, e.g. speaking in front of an audience).
• of grammar (e.g. adjectives and verbs with fixed prepositions + case)
• of pragmatics (e.g. paying habits, companies and start-ups in Austria, communicating in formal situations in German speaking countries)