A continuation of the study of the basic grammatical structure of the German language aimed at developing communicative skills in everyday situations and a deeper understanding of German syntactic structures.
Prerequisites:
One semester of college/ university level German or equivalent
Learning outcomes:
After completing the course, students are able to:
- Understand the main content of everyday conversations and brief radio announcements or phone messages,
- Obtain the most important information from short topic related texts/ messages, everyday advertisements and public notice boards,
- Introduce themselves and exchange personal details in a conversation,
- Ask and answer questions in conversation about everyday topics,
- Agree on something or make arrangements in topic related everyday conversation.
Method of presentation:
Oral and written exercises, excursions
Required work and form of assessment:
Regular attendance and participation in class work, regular assignments, quizzes, short oral presentations, and 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 a feel for and flexibility in usage of contextual language.
- Accumulation of additional vocabulary, enabling students to communicate easily in everyday life situations, and starting to go beyond that.
- Conversation practice in slightly advanced dialogues and speeches.
- Listening comprehension practice.
- Writing practice in elementary compositions.
- Reading of texts about life and customs in Germany, easy-leveled news reports.
GRAMMATICAL CONTENT:
- Thorough review of GR100 structures.
- Function of accusative and dative cases in German.
- Conjugation of regular and irregular verbs in past perfect tense.
- Past tense of modal verbs.
- Comparative and superlative of adjectives.
- Introduction to verbs with prepositions.
- Sentence structures in German: introduction to subordinate clauses.
- Subjunctive II for polite request.
- Accusative and dative of nouns.
Required readings:
Required Text:
Text Book TBA. Additional materials provided by instructor.
Recommended readings:
Recommended Reference:
Hering, Axel and Magdalena Matusek. Em Übungsgrammatik: Deutsch als Fremsprache, Hueber.
Zorach, Cecile and Charlotte Melin. English Grammar for Students of German, Olivia & Hill Press.
Elementary German Ii
A continuation of the study of the basic grammatical structure of the German language aimed at developing communicative skills in everyday situations and a deeper understanding of German syntactic structures.
One semester of college/ university level German or equivalent
After completing the course, students are able to:
- Understand the main content of everyday conversations and brief radio announcements or phone messages,
- Obtain the most important information from short topic related texts/ messages, everyday advertisements and public notice boards,
- Introduce themselves and exchange personal details in a conversation,
- Ask and answer questions in conversation about everyday topics,
- Agree on something or make arrangements in topic related everyday conversation.
Oral and written exercises, excursions
Regular attendance and participation in class work, regular assignments, quizzes, short oral presentations, and 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 a feel for and flexibility in usage of contextual language.
- Accumulation of additional vocabulary, enabling students to communicate easily in everyday life situations, and starting to go beyond that.
- Conversation practice in slightly advanced dialogues and speeches.
- Listening comprehension practice.
- Writing practice in elementary compositions.
- Reading of texts about life and customs in Germany, easy-leveled news reports.
GRAMMATICAL CONTENT:
- Thorough review of GR100 structures.
- Function of accusative and dative cases in German.
- Conjugation of regular and irregular verbs in past perfect tense.
- Past tense of modal verbs.
- Comparative and superlative of adjectives.
- Introduction to verbs with prepositions.
- Sentence structures in German: introduction to subordinate clauses.
- Subjunctive II for polite request.
- Accusative and dative of nouns.
Required Text:
Text Book TBA. Additional materials provided by instructor.
Recommended Reference:
Hering, Axel and Magdalena Matusek. Em Übungsgrammatik: Deutsch als Fremsprache, Hueber.
Zorach, Cecile and Charlotte Melin. English Grammar for Students of German, Olivia & Hill Press.