Schedule

Saturday 11:10-12:10

Start: 23.8.2025

Costs and course dates per quintal

Price: 65 CHF / lesson (60 minutes)

Summer vacations – fall vacations

• 23.8. / 30.8. / 6.9. / 13.9. / 20.9. / 27.9.2025 

• Costs: 390 CHF 

Fall vacations – Christmas vacations 2025/26: 

• 25.10. / 1.11. / 8.11. / 15.11. / 22.11. / 29.11. / 6.12. / 13.12.2025

• Costs: 520 CHF 

Christmas vacations – sports vacations 2026: 

• 10.1. / 17.1. / 24.1. / 31.1.2026

• Placement test & individual feedback (50 CHF)

• Costs: 310 CHF

Sports vacations – spring vacations 2026:

• 28.2. / 7.3. / 14.3. / 21.3. / 28.3. / 11.4.2026 

• Costs: 390 CHF

Spring vacations – summer vacations 2026

• 9.5. / 30.5. / 6.6. / 13.6. / 20.6. / 27.6. / 4.7.

• Placement test & individual feedback (50 CHF)

• Costs: 505 CHF

Summer vacations 2026 - Entrance Exam 2027

• exact dates will be published

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Conditions

• The current course can be joined at any time, provided there are places available.

• The course fee must be paid before the first course date

• Participation in the course can be terminated at the end of each quintal without incurring any further costs.

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Aim

The aim of this course is a long-term preparation for the entrance exam to Langgymnasium. The longer time horizon gives the teachers the opportunity to lay a good foundation in all areas relevant to the exam and to work with the students individually on their gaps.

The course is also particularly suitable for children with language challenges (e.g., DAZ/DAF).

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Program German

Foundation year (August 2025 – July 2026)

Focus: Improving basic skills 

• Writing texts; selected aspects of text type theory

•  Reading texts, answering questions about them; the complexity of the texts is gradually increased

• Reading books / reading challenges

• Mixed exercises for improving language skills (grammar, spelling, punctuation)

• Vocabulary exercises

Exam preparation (August 2026 – February 2027)

Phase 1 (4 months)

Focus goal: Work through exam material

• Text type theory according to exam material (narrative, report, description, discussion: argumentation, opinion

• Exercises on text types

• Writing texts using text type theory

• Reading texts and answering questions at various levels (increasing level of complexity of texts and tasks)

• Reading books / reading challenges

• Spelling & punctuation according to exam material

• General vocabulary exercises with vocabulary theory according to exam material (word field, word family, synonym/antonym)

• Grammar theory & exercises according to exam material

•  1 comprehensive location test

Phase 2 (2 months)

• Focus goal: Achieve exam readiness

• Repeat and consolidate exam material in all areas

• Work on exam tasks in all areas: writing, reading comprehension, vocabulary tasks, grammar, and spelling/punctuation

• Strategies for the exam situation

• 1 complete simulation exam

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Exam material German 

Text comprehension

• Accurately understand a text appropriate to the level

• Answer questions about the content and linguistic form

•  Recognize the intention of a text and understand the punchline or key message

• Distinguish between reality and fiction

Writing text

• Know and be able to use the following types of text: narrative, report, description, letter

• Logical structure, coherent composition

• Linguistic expression: appropriate to the audience and type of text; precise, vivid, and varied

• Linguistic correctness appropriate to the level (spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure)

Punctuation

• Sentence-ending punctuation marks: period, exclamation mark, question mark 

• Comma in simple clauses (easily recognizable verb groups) and lists 

• Punctuation marks in direct speech

Vocabulary / Word formation

• Root morpheme (word stem) 

• Pre-morphem (also prefix, initial component, basic component) and post-morphem (also: ending, final component)

• Word families (word formation) 

• Semantic relations = “meaning relations” (word field, synonym, antonym)

Grammar: Technical terms

• Part of speech (verb, noun, adjective) 

• Substitution, displacement, extension, and omission tests 

Grammar: verbs 

• 1st, 2nd, 3rd person, singular/plural 

• Tenses: present, past, perfect (correct use of future and past perfect tenses is only expected when writing a text) 

• Infinitive

• Personal form

Grammar: Nouns

• Gender

• Number: Plural forms

• Case (use only)

Grammar: Adjectives

• Comparative forms (degrees of comparison; use and form only, do not determine)

Direct speech

• In particular punctuation marks (quotation marks, commas, full stops)