Vocabulary and Culture | Grammar |
Unit 1: Future Tense Family tree: My family in 20 years | future tense using present tense + time expression vs. future tense using "werden" |
Unit 2: Active/Passive Voice Newspaper headlines: Identify actice vs. passive voice translate/write newpaper headlines | passive voice using "werden" in present, present perfect, and simple past tense |
Unit 3: Direction vs. Location Vacation: Where were you vs. where have you gone to; travel routes; travel agency skit: making suggestions, expressing conviction, doubt, and resignation; schon mal vs. noch nie | 2-way-prepositions determining location vs. direction |
Unit 4: Simple Past Tense (Imperfect) learn usage: written past tense turn present perfect tense into Imperfect and vice versa "Nur fuer dich" Wise Guys: Identify different tenses | Imperfect; Present Perfect Review Conditional form: Wenn ...., (dann) ..... |
Unit 5: Innercity stores, institutions, sites & jobs Map with new city stores/businesses Learn jobs: Verkaufer/in, Angestellte(r) store items: vocab German business cards: Read & identify store/business/institution Make a German business card incl. German address-format | Noun "Angestellter" used like an adjective |
Unit 6: Body parts, ailments/accidents review and add-on vocab | reflexive verbs dative vs. accusative reflexive schon mal/noch nie-Krankenhaus etc. |
Unit 7: Poems Struwwelpeter Max & Moritz Der Erlkonig (mit Musik " Dalia Lama/Rammstein) | all grammar topics included |
Unit 8: TV and Relative Clauses German TV magazine; channels and stations, TV vocab Write a summary with relative clause | relative clauses |
Unit 9: How important is looks? Aussehen und Kleidung-was ist in? | halten von da- und wo-compounds infinitive clauses: anfangen/bereit sein/vorhaben giving reasons using weil/damit/um...zu |
Unit 10: Relationship to others essay-writing incorporating various grammatical structures | Verhaltnis zu ordinal numbers genetive case expressing possessiong using datave and genetive case Subjunctive: waere/hatte/ wuerde + action verb (hypthesizing) |