German 2A/10C: Assignment for 4/6/15: Kapitel 10: Auf Reisen

AFTER you have completed this assignment, begin working on workbook and/or lab manual assignments for Kap. 10.  

Read Alles Klar?, p. 291 and answer A, listen to B and write answers.

Study, repeat, learn: Neue Wörter, p. 292, Wortschatz, p. 318

Read and study:  Thema 1, p. 292, and write 5 answers to A, p. 293, prepare answers to B to review in class with a classmate. 

For A, you might prefer to read about the Superlative, p. 300 before beginning A.  

Study: Checkliste vor der Reise, p. 293 and write 3 things for Akt. 2.  Include your travel destination. 

Prepare: Akt. 1, p. 293.  Write one of your own "Welches Wort passt nicht?" 

Read: Landeskunde-Info, p. 294 and prepare answers to the two questions. You might find this article interesting in this context.  

Akt. 3 will be done in class.  

Akt. 4, p. 294: write 5 sentences using 5 of the 7 transportation options, stating "Vorteil" or "Nachteil" for each. 

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Grammatik im Kontext, p. 300 (Note: there is a bit extra here due to the Spring Break, when you all will, of course, be diligently keeping up with your German homework!) 

Read:  Expressing Comparisons: The Superlative, p. 300

P. 301, Übung 1, complete the table. 

Übung 2, prepare answers to Schritt 2 to do in class.  

Übung 3 will be done in class.  

Read: Read and study “Attributive Adjectives in the Comparative”, p. 302

Listen to Übung 4, p. 303

Note: the comparative functions and is formed much as in English, with similar exceptions.  The adjectives form endings according to the forms you learned in Kapitel 9.  

Write answers to Übung 5, p. 303.

Read: Attributive Adjectives in the Superlative, p. 303 

Read Landeskunde-Info, p. 304 and write answers to Übungen 6 and 7.

Read Adjectival Nouns, p. 305, including the various notes.  

Übung 8: fill in the blanks with the correct forms.  

Übung 9: fill in the blanks with the correct forms.  

German 2A/10C: Assignment for 3/23: Kapitel 9 and test/presentation topics

German 2A/10C: 3/23 

Grammatik im Kontext: 

Read: Adjectives referring to cities and regions, p. 281 

Übung 15: Write sentences 1-8 as complete sentences and we will review this in class.  

Sprache im Kontext:

Lesen:

A.  Write a few short responses:  Vorteile und Nachteile des Stadtlebens.  

Auf den ersten Blick:

A.  Complete.  The simple past will be introduced in the next chapter. For now, try to put the two together: infinitive and simple past form.

Read:  Die Gitarre des Herrn Hatunoglu.  But FIRST, look at B, p. 285 and keep the questions in mind as you read.  The purpose is not to understand everything, and don't spend vast amounts of time on this (in case you were planning on that), but do get the "gist" by being able to answer the questions in B, p. 285.  

Complete A and B pp. 284-285.


Study for the test, Kapitel 9:

To review adjective endings, try these: 

Exercise A

Exercise B

Use "Das Kann ich nun", p. 287 as a guide (disregard #7)   

1.  Listening section: Follow directions

2.  Be able to write directions to two locations on a city map.  Study vocabulary in Nach dem Weg fragen, p. 268 to prepare, as well as "Redemittel", p. 269, Akt. 7.

3.  Know vocabulary pertaining to things to be found in a city.

4.  Genitive case questions

5.  Genitive prepositions questions - know the prepositions! 

6.  Adjective endings, all three groups (after a "der" word, "ein" word or unpreceded). 

7.  Reading passage w/questions.

8.  Schreiben:  Prepare to write 50-60 words on the following:

Ein Rundgang durch die Stadt. Ihr deutscher Freund / Ihre deutsche Freundin besucht Sie in Ihrer Heimatstadt. Zeigen Sie ihm/ihr Ihre Stadt und schreiben Sie seine/ihre Beobachtungen (observations) auf (50–60 Wörter). Benutzen Sie mindestens fünf Adjektive in Ihren Beschreibungen. (20 Punkte)

Mögliche Themen

• den Weg durch die Stadt

• bestimmte Gebäude (buildings) und Sehenswürdigkeiten (tourist attractions), die sie sehen

• Gebäude in Ihrer Nachbarschaft (Schule, Kirche)

• etwas Historisches über die Stadt oder wofür die Stadt bekannt ist

9.  Culture questions based on Landeskunde-Info assigned to read.

German 10C: 

Presentation topics.  Prepare a presentation of no shorter than 3 minutes' length.  You may have note cards with key words, but otherwise this is to be "presented" as in a conversation, rather than reading from something word for word: 

1.   Prepare a "tour" of your hometown or favorite city.  There will be a projector available with laptop attached, so you could bring photos on a flash drive and enhance the interest for your presentation.  

2.    Find a hotel in your favorite city in a German-speaking country and present the following:  

1. location

2. cost for single and double room 

3. what is included in the price 

4.  Amenities on-site 

5.  What you would visit in the vicinity, 

6.  Why did you choose this particular hotel?  What do you like about it? 

A. on page 263 has vocabulary to get you started.  You could include photos of the room, tourist sites, neighborhood, etc. on a flash drive and project to the class.  

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German 2A/10C: Assignment for 3/16/15: Kapitel 9: In der Stadt

Continue to work on workbook/lab manual for Kap 9, to hand in on 3/23.

Thema 3, p. 267

Match answers to A.  There is no vocabulary for this section, as you can look for cognates and guess from context.  

Exercise: Identify one historical location on the map of the Lutherstadt Wittenberg and write 3-5 sentences (in German!) about that location, be it a building, a tree, a museum, a church.   Just as a suggestion: tell us how old the place/building is, if it’s a museum, what are the hours.  Just an idea.  Come up with something of your own.   Google it! 

Listen to “Nach dem Weg fragen”, p. 268.  Study Neue Wörter.  Write answers to B.

Giving directions:  Now, from the vantage of the I (information) kiosk, write directions for a tourist to your chosen destination (above). Tip: you might want to study the Neue Wörter, p. 268 for suggestions for giving directions, or look first at “Redemittel”, p. 269. 

Listen to Akt. 5 and fill in dialog blanks.

Be prepared to do Akt. 6 in class. 

Akt 7:  Using “Redemittel”, p. 269, Write 3 exchanges between 2 people, as in the example.  Choose 3 different locations (Sie stehen) as your starting point and match them with a different destination (Sie wollen).  You will then have a short exchange (x3) for which you ask directions and also give a reply.  This is based on the Stadtplan von Wittenberg, p. 267.  

Read Landeskunde-Info, p. 270. Be able to give at least one response to the first question: Was sind zwei wichtige Daten in der Geschichte Ihrer Stadt”?  Heads up:  A "Kultur" question about this Landeskunde-Info will be on the chapter test for Kap 9.  

Akt 8: Write directions  from the CCSF Mission Center to three locations in SF of your choice.  Make good use of the "directional" vocabulary introduced in Kapitel 9.  Also, it would be helpful to rewatch the video for Kapitel 9, esp. the last part with people giving directions.   

Grammatik m Kontext

Review again, if unclear, the chart on page 275, Adjectives after a Definite Article. THEN, 

P. 277, read and study “Adjectives after an Indefinite Article”

Übung 10, write adjective endings for blanks

Übung 11, be prepared to do in class, but prepare at least three questions to ask a classmate, using "ein" plus adjectives with correct endings to describe the nouns.  See the Beispiel for guidance.    

P. 278, read “Adjectives without a Preceding Article.”  Notice that the endings correspond to the definite articles that you already know so well:  For example, Masc.: der - guter, den = guten, etc. (note: the exception is in the genitive sing. masculine and neuter) In essence, since the gender is not given, the adjectives without a preceding article indicate the gender and are taking the place of the definite articles!  Ganz einfach! 

Übung 12, write answers.  Read the directions before beginning!  You will be using the "Analyse" material on p. 279 for this.  

Übung 13, listen and fill in blanks, Texts 1 and 2

EXTRA PRACTICE with adjective endings:

Here and here and here, 

and finally, Here   The story of Little Red Riding Hood, with adjective endings!  

This exercise covers the three categories of adjective endings: after a definite article, after an indefinite, and unpreceded, so it will really benefit to work through this.  Try doing this without looking back and forth to the charts.  Go with what you know: look at case, gender, number (i.e. singular or plural).  Ask yourself: Is the noun preceded by a definite or an indefinite article, or no article at all? Fill it out and check your answers.  Bring to class and we will review.  Note that some blanks will remain empty.  This is not a test, BUT BRING THE COMPLETED PAGE TO CLASS (to review).  Keep calm and carry on!  

Finally, a bit of fun and cultural interest in this video in which people are asked what their definition of "Gemütlichkeit" is.  As you can tell, it does mean different things to different people, but there is a unified sense of "well being" in all of the definitions.

German 2A/10C: Assignment for 3/9/15: Kapitel 9: In der Stadt

Continue to work on the workbook/lab manual for Kapitel 9.  

Thema 2: Im Hotel, p. 265

Listen to dialog, study Neue Wörter, p. 265 and write a short summary (4-5) sentences based on the dialog "Im Hotel" in which you give information about the wer, was, wie, warum, etc.   Z.B: Herr Thompson kommt im hotel an.  Er meldet sich an ... u.s.w. 

and then complete "Bilden Sie Sätze".

Akt. 3, p. 266: complete sentences

Akt. 4, p. 266: study pictures and write a sentence for each one.  Then, rewrite the story using the present perfect tense. (present perfect tense was covered in Kapitel 7)

Go to this website:  http://www.aohostels.com/en/berlin/ Click on the German flag in the upper right hand corner to read the site "auf deutsch."  Choose a hostel or a hotel and write 6-7 sentences (in German) describing the hotel, using the vocabulary from Kap. 9.  Include the price of a room, what kind of services are available, location, etc.  Click on "Freizeitzangebote" and include a few places you'd like to visit in your report. Try to include a couple of uses of the genitive case, for good measure.   And, be sure to watch the short video included for the hostels to get a sense of what it looks like!  Have some fun with this! 

Grammatik im Kontext: 

Attributive Adjectives, p. 275, "Adjectives after a Definite Article".   Read carefully and study the chart for "adjectives after a definite article."  Note: it is important to know the genders of the nouns that are being modified and to recognize which case (i.e., nominative, accusative, dative or genitive) the noun is in!  This is where it all comes together!   

Note: it's not as complicated as it might seem.  There are only two adjective endings used with frequency: -e and -en.  And -e is only used in five places (see chart), all the rest are -en.  

Write answers to Übung 7.

Read Sprach-Info, bottom of p. 275

Write sentences for Übung 8.  Do not use "haben mir gefallen" for each one!  Try using some other vocabulary to vary your answers.  For example: for No. 2, you could say how much the small and comfortable hotel cost per night.  

Write sentences with adjective endings for Übung 9.