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VOCABULARY - The students will:
1. Memorize and express.
2. Be able to translate, produce activly and passivly such contexts
as greetings, alphabet classroom related items and activivities,
family members, clothes, days, months, weather, clock times,
numbers, basic foods, colors, and cognates.
COMPREHENSION - The students will:
1. Recognize and understand basic classroom instructions and simple
declarative sentences which host the vocabulary listed above, and
which are limited in their verbal usages to the present tense.
2. Short, coherent paragraphs or ancedotes using high frequency or
cognate vocabulary, or brief stories should also be understandable.
3. Items for aural comprehension should be presented at deliberate
speed and with clear (but not distortedly so) pronunciation.
SPEAKING - The students will:
1. Answer, identify and interpret simple, direct yes/no and content
questions in a simple way, but will show less skill in formulating
such questions.
2. Require subordination, but should be able to express such practical
items as where he/she lives, how old he/she is, his/her name, the
date, his/her date of birth, and describe, say a family member or
a familiar place.
3. Students' ability to speak will be to a large degree a function
of the questions asded of him/her.
4. Answer questions on readings.
READINGS - The students will:
1. Read with full comprehension short passages which deal with everyday
topics or dialogues concerning daily life.
2. Items selected for reading could be heavy laden with cognates and
not involve heavily subordinated or lengthy sentences.
3. Literary passages or readings in which the element of personal style
are involved are not appropriate nor are readings which are heavily
culture laden.
4. Depending upon their difficulty, newspaper items or editorials might
be used.
5. Readings should confine themselves essentially to the present
indicative tense.
WRITING - The students will:
Of all the skills, this one will probably end up being the least
well developed.
1. Write, with minimum errors in spelling and accentuation, whatever
he is able to say.
2. Brief declarative paragraphs may also be within the grasp of the
student, as long as they are confined to the present tense, deal
with a highly familiar topic, use only the vocabulary the student
controls actively, and do not involve subordination.
3. Student might practice such writing by attempting short letters or
descriptions of persons, places, or things.
PRONUNCIATION - The students will:
1. Have been grounded in the basics of German pronunciation, in letter/
sound correspondence, but will be lacking in the "fine tuning" of
pronunciation which will come only with more study, exposure, and
practice.
2. Realize that some sounds of German, e.g., do not exist in English,
and that others, e.g., are somewhat differently pronounced in
German and English.
3. Pronunciation is not to be stressed to the point which it "cows"
the student into thinking that he pronounces badly and is therefore,
afraid to say anything.
4. Always be understandable to a native, but may still have an
"Aus/ander" acent.
5. Stress words correctly the majority of the time.
GRAMMAR - Students should control the following grammatical items in
a more-or-less active fashion:
1. Subject pronouns.
2. Present tense of basic verbs (weak and strong).
3. Yes/no and content question form.
4. Telling time.
5. Weather expression.
6. Possessive and demons, adjs.
7. Prepositions, acc. dative.
8. Affirmative words and their negative counterparts.
9. Direct object pronouns.
A. actively with a simple conjugated verb.
B. passively with dependent infinitives and -ndo.
10. Contrast.
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SCOPE: Scope is what is covered in German 1 is at a significantly
accelerated pace to a course teaching the same materials as in high
school. This covers in a semester what is covered in two semesters at
the high school level. This range also corresponds to about half of
our college level representative text.
SPEAKING, LISTENING, READING, & COMPOSITION - Each section will cover
in some form the content listed below.
1. Self-identification, personal information.
2. Nationalities, occupations.
3. Monetary denominations, banking.
4. Basic classroom objects, colors, numbers 1-1,000,000.
5. Buying, clothing, shopping.
6. Telling time, calendar, dates, holidays, celebrations.
7. Weather, seasons.
8. Family members.
9. Simple greetings and courtesy expressions, giving directions,
expressing and interpretating feelings, emotions, and body language.
10. Health and body.
11. House and home.
12. Food and drink.
13. Travel and transportation, simple geopgraphical information.
14. Job search.
15. Alphabet, cognates, pronunciation, interrogatives.
16. Office and shop designations, simple labels.
17. Adapted readings (1000 word vocabulary level), unadapted readings
of an appropriate nature, such as bus or movie schedules.
18. Dialogues.
Grammar: Students will be expected to recognize and use:
1. Various simple tenses of the most frequent regular and irregular
verbs; present, future, and verb compliments.
2. Various types of questions (yes/no and wh-), long and short answers,
and simple commonds.
3. Pronouns: personal, indefinite, possessive, direct, indirect,
simple subordinators and coordinators.
4. Auxiliaries BE/DO and their negatives, simple modals.
5. Nouns: common proper, singular, plural and gender, direct and indirect
objects, negation, simple clause markers and noun clauses, articles,
indefinite and possessive determiners, demonstratives, frequency
adverbs and time expressions, propositions of time and place,
contractions, has to, needs to, wants to, comparison of adjectives.
