Introduction to pronunciation (phonetics) and basic grammatical structure of the German language: articles, noun gender and declination, pronouns, verb tenses, simple and complex sentences; acquisition of fundamental vocabulary and communicative skills.
Prerequisites:
None
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the course, students are able to:
- understand and use familiar every day expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type,
- introduce themselves and others and ask and answer questions about personal details,
- interact in a simple way.
Method of presentation:
Oral and written exercises, excursions
Required work and form of assessment:
Regular attendance and participation in class work, regular assignments, tests and quizzes, final exam.
Grading:
30% Oral participation (includes an oral presentation)
25% Written homework and composition assignments
20% Tests and quizzes
25% Final exam
content:
GENERAL CONTENT:
- Pronunciation practice and training in listening and reading comprehension.
- Situational pattern samples to develop habitual and automatic control of language structures.
- Attainment of basic vocabulary related to everyday life.
- Conversation practice in elementary dialogues.
- Writing practice in elementary compositions.
- Reading of simple texts on different subjects and life and customs in Germany.
- Listening to simple songs.
GRAMMATICAL CONTENT:
- Fundamental terminology.
- Conjugation of regular and selected irregular verbs in the present tense.
- Introduction to present perfect.
- Past tense of selected auxiliaries.
- Selected modal verbs.
- Selected separable and inseparable verbs.
- Negation.
- Selected local and temporal prepositions.
- Word order in all types of sentences (syntactic structures).
- Nominative and accusative cases of nouns, pronouns, articles.
Required readings:
Text Book TBA. Additional materials provided by instructor.
Notes:
This course is offered during the regular semester and in the summer. For summer sections, the course schedule is condensed, but the content, learning outcomes, and contact hours are the same.
Elementary German I
Introduction to pronunciation (phonetics) and basic grammatical structure of the German language: articles, noun gender and declination, pronouns, verb tenses, simple and complex sentences; acquisition of fundamental vocabulary and communicative skills.
None
By the end of the course, students are able to:
- understand and use familiar every day expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type,
- introduce themselves and others and ask and answer questions about personal details,
- interact in a simple way.
Oral and written exercises, excursions
Regular attendance and participation in class work, regular assignments, tests and quizzes, final exam.
Grading:
30% Oral participation (includes an oral presentation)
25% Written homework and composition assignments
20% Tests and quizzes
25% Final exam
GENERAL CONTENT:
- Pronunciation practice and training in listening and reading comprehension.
- Situational pattern samples to develop habitual and automatic control of language structures.
- Attainment of basic vocabulary related to everyday life.
- Conversation practice in elementary dialogues.
- Writing practice in elementary compositions.
- Reading of simple texts on different subjects and life and customs in Germany.
- Listening to simple songs.
GRAMMATICAL CONTENT:
- Fundamental terminology.
- Conjugation of regular and selected irregular verbs in the present tense.
- Introduction to present perfect.
- Past tense of selected auxiliaries.
- Selected modal verbs.
- Selected separable and inseparable verbs.
- Negation.
- Selected local and temporal prepositions.
- Word order in all types of sentences (syntactic structures).
- Nominative and accusative cases of nouns, pronouns, articles.
Text Book TBA. Additional materials provided by instructor.
This course is offered during the regular semester and in the summer. For summer sections, the course schedule is condensed, but the content, learning outcomes, and contact hours are the same.