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SPEAKING:
1. The students should be able to sustain a logical dialogue with one
another or with a native speaker for 1-3 minutes of more on topics
dealing with the most practical aspects of every day experience.
2. In addition, they should achieve a clear pronunciation, proper
intonation and correct grammatical perspective so they may be able
to summarize in general terms the meanging they with to convey.
LISTENING:
1. The student should develop this skill so he can understand, apply,
analyze, synthesize, and evaluate what is said to him, as well as
the assignments, and most of the materials read aloud at normal
speed (such as newspaper articles, magazine features, letters,
etc.)
READING:
1. Students should be able to read with some ease and understand and
judge selections from topics of genral interest, with only
occasional reference to a dictionary.
WRITING:
1. The students should be encouraged to apply their active German
vocabulary and over-all critical thinking skills of the language
to produce short compostions and descriptive paragraphs consisting
of biographical sketches, travel accounts, job interviews, and
the like.
MINIMUM MATERIAL TO BE STUDIED:
Particular attention is given to increase the acquisition of vocabulary
in order to provide material for communication. Idiomatic expressions
of cultural traits of German speaking countries shall be presented and
discussed in order to enhance the student's linguistic and cultural
awareness. Of major concern is the presentation of the basic grammatical
aspects of the language through the active usage and assimilation of
structural patterns in situations as similar to normal speaking
situations as possible.
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SCOPE: Scope is what is covered in German 2 is at a significantly
accelerated pace to a course teaching the same materials as in high
school. This course covers in a semester what is covered in four
semesters at the high school level. This range also corresponds to
completing our college level representative text.
LISTENING, SPEAKING, READING, & COMPOSITION:
1. Social situations such as greetings, introductions, invitations
and appointments, polite formulaic expressions.
2. Everyday topics such as: personal information, restaurants and
foods, lodging, transportation, custom agents and travel, telephone
conversations, directions, instructions correspondence, leisure,
hobbies, customs, sports, monetary matters, banking, health,
shopping, numbers (ordinal and cardinal), urban and rural life,
cars and maintenance, office equipment and use, social and civil
responsibilities, social and political problems in the two Germanys,
Switzerland and Austria.
3. Adapted readings, occasional unadapted readings of academic relevance
or on cross-cultural and current issues, short stories and poetry,
simple letters and postcards, TV and radio program schedules, bank,
travel, and postal forms, menus, messages, and memos, ads and labels,
simple instructions, newspaper headlines, maps, table of contents.
GRAMMAR:
1. In addition to reviewing and expanding to beginning grammar points,
students will be expected to recognize and use: present, past,
present perfect, past perfect.
2. Reflexive pronouns.
3. Modal auxiliaries, present perfect, past perfect.
4. Frequency, time, manner, place, cause and sequence.
5. Quantifiers.
6. Indirect and direct objects.
7. Separable and non-separable verbs.
8. Noun clauses, adjective clauses.
9. Reflexive and relative pronouns.
10. Formal and informal commands.
11. Past participle used as an adjective.
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In preparation for 50 minute lecture class, student is expected to
have:
1. Intensively studied from 5-10 pages from class text.
2. Completed from 5-10 pages from workbook, and prepared 5-10 pages
or written tasks from class text, and reviewed 5-20 pages of class
text for projected exams.
3. Listened and completed 30-50 minutes of language lab material.
4. Spent 25-50 minutes practicing and memorizing vocabulary and phrases.
5. Written required short essay illustrating control of linguistical
and cultural principles.
In preparation for 50 minute lecture class students are recommended
to have:
1. Worked 10-15 minutes cooperatively with a fellow German student.
2. Worked 10-15 minutes with a German tutor or other German language
รพ specialist.
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KONTAKTE by Terrel et. al.
Recommended: German-English Dictionary.
These are college level texts where material is covered about twice
as much as High School.