In German I Part 1, the student is given a comprehensive introduction to the basic and fundamental skills necessary for expressing common ideas in the German language. The course will begin by introducing the student to the basics of introductory conversation and will build in theme and scope to address topics including daily activities, travel, needs, desires, and preferences in increasingly complex and typical situations. This provides a realistic context for the skills acquired by the student. The course also provides a considerably thorough study of grammatical skills, ranging from the most basic sentences to engaging and creative structures dealing with more interesting situations. There is a significant amount of vocabulary introduced across all four units, which provide a rich lexicon for communicating a large number of ideas. Throughout the course, a great deal of attention is paid to all of the skills necessary for a full and practical mastery of the language, such as reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Along the way, the student will acquire a familiarity with many of the cultural factors that helped to shape and are shaped by the German language. By the end of the first part of the course, the student will become a comfortable communicator in the basic aspects of the German language and will be prepared to continue further study in more intermediate and advanced themes in the second part of the course.
These courses include auditory comprehension assessments that require students to listen to audio files and to record themselves speaking. For these courses, it is essential that students have either a headset equipped with a microphone or access to an internal microphone within their computers.
Unit 1: Essential Content and Skills
- Identify Brandenburg and its capital, Potsdam.
- Identify greetings and names and use them in conversations.
- Formulate questions and recognize patterns in the German
- Identify numbers for people’s ages, and recognize phrases describing
where people are from.
- Utilize forms of sein
with proper subject/verb agreement.
- Practice pronunciation of German umlauts, and understand
native speakers introducing themselves and describing how they get to school.
- Master the reading strategy of using visual clues.
Unit 2: Essential Content and Skills
vocabulary words and phrases used to describe interests and leisure activities.
- Utilize the
present tense of verbs.
- Determine the
importance of verb position and sequence words in German sentences about
- Utilize time
expressions, and categorize phrases used for opinions, agreement, and disagreement.
conversations about interests and hobbies.
- Master the reading
strategy of scanning text for specific information.
Unit 3: Essential Content and Skills
- Identify vocabulary
words for food and beverages, and use forms of mӧchte to express wishes in restaurants and other settings.
- Utilize adjectives
and their opposites to describe pieces of furniture.
between the definite and indefinite German articles.
- Utilize subject
pronouns and their possessive forms.
- Describe family
members, and classify people by their descriptions.
- Listen to and
understand native people talk about where they live.
- Master the
reading strategy of using root words to determine meanings of unfamiliar words.
Unit 4: Essential Content and Skills
- Identify school
subjects and practice telling time.
- Discuss the
24-hour system of telling time.
sequencing words to list the order of events, and utilize the verb haben.
- Listen to and
understand native students talk about their favorite subjects in school.
- Express likes,
dislikes, favorites, and opinions.
different patterns of plural forms, and practice pronouncing and understanding
- Master the reading
strategy of understanding compound words and determining the meaning of the entire
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