Text: Neue Freunde und Deutsch Aktuell I

“ Was machst du in deiner Freizeit?”(What do you do in your freetime?)

Review:

Greetings

Numbers

Courtesies

Weekdays

Subject pronouns

Talking to / talking about

Regular verb conjugation

Questions (information and yes/no)

Pronunciation

Telling time

Classroom expressions

Review and Develop:

Word order – conjugated verb 2nd place unless yes/no question

Asking for and giving opinions: agreeing, disagreeing and reacting with surprise

European countries – Germany’s states and capitals

Attitude verb – möchten (would like to) contrasted with müssen (have to)

The phrase Es gibt (There is / There are)

Question words – Woher? Wo? Wohin? (From where? Where? To where?)

Introduce:

Telling when and how often

Months and seasons

Game playing vocabulary

Adjectives – attribute, comparative, superlative

gern, lieber, am liebsten (like, prefer, like most of all)

Cultural:

German card game – Mau Mau

Text: Deutsch Aktuell – Chapter 4 “Schule” (School)

Review:

Pronunciation

Telling time

Regular verb conjugation

Verb sein (to be)

Verb haben (to have)

Verb contrast möchten (would like to) and müssen (have to)

Asking for and giving opinions + reactions

Review and Develop:

Irregular verb conjugation

Identifying subjects to aid object recognition

Using the phrase Es gibt (There is) with objects

Definite and indefinite articles with objects +

Using the verb haben (to have) with objects

Adjectives – attributive, comparative, superlative

Introduce:

Recognizing and using direct objects

With verbs: kennen (to know of), fragen (to ask), spielen (to play), brauchen (to need)

Coordinating conjunctions

Classroom Expressions #3

Cultural:

Shopping dialog

Text: Deutsch Aktuell – Chapter 5 “Zu Besuch” (Visiting)

Review:

Pronunciation

Es gibt (There is/are)

Definite and indefinite articles

Regular and irregular verb conjugation

Question words Wer? (Who?), Was? (What?), Wen? (Whom?), Wie viel (How many?), Wie viele (How many?), Wie oft?(How oft?), Was für? (What kind?), Welch? (Which?), Wann? (When?). Wie? (How?), Warum? (Why?), Wo? (Where?),Woher? (From where?), Wohin? (To where?)

Review and Develop:

Classroom expressions #3

Adjectives – unequal and equal

Modal verbs möchten (would like to), müssen (to be able to), +sollen (should)…

Direct objects – besuchen (to visit)

European countries + languages

Conjunctions + Subordinate conjunctions Ich weiss, dass (I know, that…)

Introduce:

Weather vocabulary

Visiting courtesies

Saying you like something Es gefällt mir. (It pleases me.)

Clothing vocabulary

Text: Deutsch Aktuell – Chapter 6 “Wie schmeckt’s?” (How does it taste?)

Review:

Pronunciation

Verbs – regular, irregular, modals

Review and Develop:

Direct objects – essen (to eat), trinken (to drink), kaufen (to buy)

Kennen (to be acquainted with) as contrasted with wissen (to know a fact)

Modal verbs

+ wollen (to want to), können (to be able to), dürfen (to be allowed to)

To express liking something with mögen (to like to)

Conjunctions – coordinating and subordinating

Using negatives correctly – kein (no, not any) and nicht (not)

Introduce:

Food vocabulary

Classroom expressions #4

Recognizing the command form

Cultural:

Germany’s geographical and cultural points of interest

Assessments:

Vocabulary and Chapter Tests

1 Dialog: In a store

Letter to pen friend after each chapter

German 2 students will be able to:

Use common courtesies

Locate the subject and object (if present) of a sentence

Conjugate regular, irregular and modal verbs correctly

Use nominative pronouns correctly

Recognize accusative pronouns

Identify correctly the form of you to use

Have an understanding that German nouns have a gender and a plural form that must be learned.

Formulate information and yes/no questions

Answer information and yes/no questions

Conduct an interview with a classmate and write the information obtained

Locate Germany on a map and be able to locate and name the capitals of its states

Name and locate several points of interest in Germany

Count

Use correct pronunciation of all vocabulary words.

Give simple directions

Ask someone their opinion, react to it and give their own opinion and tell why

Understand the difference between definite and indefinite articles

Be able to use the correct form of definite and indefinite article with the noun

Tell time

Recognize the command form

Recognize and use coordinating conjunctions

Recognize subordinate conjunctions

Use kein (no/not any) and nicht (not) correctly

Compare the German and American school systems

Talk about the weather

Be able to read a menu and order food

Vary starting words and use the correct word order

Write a letter using correct format

Be able to use modal verbs to express attitude towards actions