GRMN 2460 - Intermediate German 1

Credit Hours: 4.00

Objectives:

1. Pronounce individual sounds, including appropriate intonation and stress, with little or no interference in order to be understood by a Native Speaker.
2. Form and produce entire sentences with no hesitation and natural pauses.
3. Engage in small conversations with a Native Speaker in the present or near future tense about the following topics (includes both initiating conversations as well as responding appropriately to speech of a Native Speaker)
   1. Travel, vacations, means of transportation, items to take on vacation.
   2. World of work, professions.
   3. Money matters.
   4. The house, household appliances.
   5. Television, newspaper, and other media; technology.
   6. Global problems, environment, discussion strategies.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use German vocabulary related to travel, vacations, transportation, world of work, money, house, appliances, communication media, technology, global problems, and the environment.

Objectives:

1. Use vocabulary when speaking.
2. Respond to a Native Speaker who has used the vocabulary.
3. Use vocabulary in writing.
4. Demonstrate reading comprehension skills by discussing subject matter and/or answering questions based on the passage read.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the ability to use grammar structures beyond Elementary German 2 in speaking and writing.

Objectives:

1. Use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.
2. Conjugate and use simple past tense and the past perfect tense.
3. Conjugate and use the future tense.
4. Use relative clauses.
5. Use verbs with fixed prepositions.
6. Conjugate and use the future tense and the conditional.
7. Use adjectives, nouns, adverbs: make comparisons.
8. Use the subjunctive.

Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize and discuss aspects of German culture beyond Elementary German 2.

Objectives:

1. Recognize and discuss some geographical, economical and cultural aspects of some German speaking countries and/or communities such as:
   1. German vacations, dealing with a travel agency, buying a train ticket.
   2. Help-wanted ads and applying for a job.
   3. The German school system.
   4. The Euro, BaföG.
   5. Contemporary art in Germany.
   6. Media, radio and. television in Germany.
   7. The environment, global problems and issues, speed limits in Europe, recycling.
   8. German history from 1939 until today.
2. Compare cultural differences.

1. Chapter 10:
   1. Comparing Things and People
   2. Comparing Two Items
   3. The Comparative of Adjectives and Adverbs
   4. The Superlative of Adjectives and Adverbs
   5. Adverbs and Predicate Adjectives in the Superlative
   6. Attributive Adjectives in the Superlative
   7. Adjectival Nouns
   8. Narrating Events in the Past: The Simple Past Tense
      1. Weak Verbs
      2. Strong Verbs
      3. Irregular Verbs
      4. The Conjunction als
      5. The Past Perfect Tense
2. Chapter 11:
   1. Future Tense
   2. Describing People or Things: Relative Clauses
   3. The Relative Pronouns
   4. The Interrogative Pronoun was für (ein)
   5. Negating Sentences and the Position of nicht
   6. Negation: noch nicht / noch kein(e); nicht mehr / kein(e) … mehr
3. Chapter 12:
   1. Verbs with Fixes Prepositions
   2. Da- and wo-Compounds
   3. Prepositional Objects: da-Compounds
   4. The Adverbs dahin and daher
   5. Asking Questions: wo-Compounds
   6. The Subjunctive - Present Forms
   7. The use of würde with an Infinitive
   8. Expressing Wishes and Hypothetical Situations
   9. Talking About Contrary-to-Fact Conditions
   10. The Past Subjunctive
4. Chapter 13:
   1. The Verbs brauchen and scheinen
   2. Infinitive Clauses with zu
   3. Indirect Discourse with the Subj.: Present Tense
   4. Indirect Discourse with the Subj.: Past Tense
   5. Infinitive Clauses with um…zu and ohne…zu
5. Chapter 14:
   1. The Passive Voice - Formation
   2. Expressing the Agent
   3. Expressing a General Activity
   4. The Passive with Modal Verbs
   5. Use of man as an Alternative to the Passive
   6. The Present Participle