FLI-LAN7305 - Beginning German

Course Description

This entry level course is geared toward those students who have not yet had any instruction in German. This is a lifesaver course for students planning a trip to a German speaking country with an emphasis on real life situations. There will be an emphasis on grammatical construction.

Course Outline

Greetings, Introductions and Useful Expressions

Subject pronouns
Present tense form of verbs
Definite articles: der, die, das
Gender and third-person pronouns
Using adjectives and adverbs
Present tense of sein and haben
Verbs and vowel changes

2. Number: Measurements, Currencies, Sizes, and Temperature

Rules about basic word order
Formation of noun plurals
Accusative case
Indefinite articles
Accusative of personal pronouns
Prepositions requiring the accusative case
Negation with nicht
Function and use of adverbs

3. Food, Restaurants, and Eating

Giving orders in a polite way
Function of modals (modal auxiliaries)
Möchten means "Would like"
Ordinal numbers
Asking indirect questions
Conjugation of wissen (to know)
More about word order
Compound nouns

4. Lodging, Hotels, and Overnight Accommodations

Dative case
Dative endings for a few masculine nouns in singular
Dative endings for plural nouns
Dative prepositions
Verbs that require the dative case
Separable-prefix Verbs
Word order of direct and indirect objects
Two-say prepositions

5. Telling Time

Regular (weak) verbs
Irregular (strong) verbs
Separable-Prefix verbs
Irregular Verbs using haben as auxiliary
Regular verbs using sein as auxiliary
Irregular verbs using sein as auxiliary
Mixed verbs
Genitive case

Learner Outcomes

Communicate on a basic level in the target language
Greet people and make introductions
Understand currency, size, temperature and measurements
Order in a restaurant
Deal with accommodations
Ask for directions
Tell time

Notes

Please be sure to have an updated email address as that is the main form of communication outside the classroom

Evaluation: participation, demonstration of skills