German 2A –
Assignment for 11/19/13
Office hour on 11/19/13 from 4:50 -5:50 (in classroom)
Class will meet
from 6:00-9:00. 6:00-7:30 instruction
time
7:45-9:00
test, Kap. 9
There will be a “Schreiben”
section this time on the test. I will
post the topic tomorrow so that you can prepare your vocabulary, etc. However, these will not be permitted to be
used as reference during the test.
Continue working
on workbook and lab manual for Kap. 9 to hand in on 11/19. Be sure to look at answer key and do
corrections.
Akt. 8, Wie kommt man dahin?, p. 270. Prepare some answers and also prepare directions for three destinations in SF, starting from the Downtown Campus. (assigned but did not get to).
Übung 13 – Listen
and complete. (Reassigned from last
week). I will post the answers to this
exercise tomorrow (Thursday, 11/14), but for your own benefit, do the exercise
first (if you haven’t already done so) and THEN check. This is for your benefit in mastering these
adjective endings.
Übung 14 – will be
done in class.
Read “Adjectives
referring to cities and regions”, p. 281
Übung 15 –
prepare or write answers to do in class.
Landeskunde-Info,
p. 270 (assigned for 11/12). Read (if
you haven’t already) and prepare the following: Be able to give two responses
to the first question: Was sind zwei wichtige Daten in der Geschichte Ihrer
Stadt?
(user name: german, password: ccsf) Answer questions for A, B, C, p. 282.
NEXT: Try tackling the blanks in Rotkäppchen,
asking yourself the following questions to determine what the
endings will be:
1) what is the gender of the noun that the
adjective is modifying?
2) which case is the noun/adjective in? Does it function as the subject (nom), the
direct object (acc), an object of a dative preposition or is an indirect object
(dative), or is it denoting ownership or a relationship? (genitive)
3) is the adjective preceded by: a definite
article or other“der” word such as dieser or jeder? OR by an indefinite article,
or ein-words (possessive adjectives such as mein, sein, ihr, unser).
4) is the adjective NOT preceded by
either? These will be identical to “der”
word endings except: Genitive, masc and neuter.
Go to this page for a chart that
compares the “definite” and “indefinite” endings together: http://faculty.mansfield.edu/bholtman/holtman/ref/determiners.htm
Check your
answers, review your errors and please email me with questions about why
something is one thing and not the other.
I will then post the questions on the blog. It is not as daunting as it seems! Remember, it’s a fun puzzle to solve!
Here are some extra online exercises for adjective endings. Not an assignment, just something for those who feel they need a bit extra practice:
and, if you dare:
Study for test: Use “Das kann ich nun”, p. 287 as a guide. If you have done the workbook thoroughly,
checked your answers, and kept up with classroom assignments, you should do
well.
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