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. 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
9. Weak Verbs
10. Strong Verbs
11. Irregular Verbs
12. The Conjunction als
13. The Past Perfect Tense
14. Future Tense
15. Describing People or Things: Relative Clauses
16. The Relative Pronouns
17. The Interrogative Pronoun was für (ein)
18. Negating Sentences and the Position of nicht
19. Negation: noch nicht / noch kein(e); nicht mehr / kein(e) … mehr
20. Verbs with Fixes Prepositions
21. Da- and wo-Compounds
22. Prepositional Objects: da-Compounds
23. The Adverbs dahin and daher
24. Asking Questions: wo-Compounds
25. The Subjunctive - Present Forms
26. The use of würde with an Infinitive
27. Expressing Wishes and Hypothetical Situations
28. Talking About Contrary-to-Fact Conditions
29. The Past Subjunctive
30. The Verbs brauchen and scheinen
31. Infinitive Clauses with zu
32. Indirect Discourse with the Subj.: Present Tense
33. Indirect Discourse with the Subj.: Past Tense
34. Infinitive Clauses with um…zu and ohne…zu
35. The Passive Voice - Formation
36. Expressing the Agent
37. Expressing a General Activity
38. The Passive with Modal Verbs
39. Use of man as an Alternative to the Passive
40. The Present Participle