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German II

Course Hours: 
135
Course Type: 
Mentor Supported
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This course offers an introduction to the German language and German-speaking cultures. Students will gain needed skills for successful communication in today’s rapidly changing world by exposing them to a wealth of written and spoken authentic textual materials. Learn beginning conversational skills in addition to gaining skill in listening, speaking, and writing. Students will build upon German I vocabulary, grammar, and cultural knowledge.

Recommendation: German I.

After completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Recall key values and practices of German cities and culture
  • Recognize how to correctly use verbs to reflect activities in present, past, and future tense
  • Differentiate between forms of adjectives and adverbs
  • Recall how to communicate about time expressions, transportation, and everyday events
  • Identify vocabulary and basic grammar concepts to build upon basic proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing in German

German II Module 1
Man kann alles in der Stadt finden Part 1

  • Wo or wohin?
  • Prepositions indicating location
  • Two-case prepositions and verbs used with them
  • Student discounts
  • Shopping
  • Talking about where you like to go in your free time
  • Talking about where to run errands
  • Stuttgart
  • Giving directions
  • The prefixes hin and her
  • Verbs commonly used with two-case

German II Module 2
Man kann alles in der Stadt finden Part 2

  • Soccer and professional sports in Central Europe
  • Talking about when events happen
  • Time expressions in the dative and accusative
  • Talking about means of transportation
  • The preposition mit with means of transportation
  • Expressing time, manner, place
  • Expressing the purpose for an action
  • Verbs of destination vs. location
  • Word order: time, manner, place
  • The subordinating conjunction damit
  • Munich

German II Module 3
An der Uni studieren Part 1

  • Interjections, Rejoinders, and Particles
  • Deutsche Hochschulen
  • Talking about activities we do for ourselves
  • Reflexive verbs
  • Reflexive pronouns
  • Im Badezimmer
  • Talking about daily hygiene routines
  • Talking about illness: krank sein
  • Studieren vs. lernen

German II Module 4
An der Uni studieren Part 2

  • Der Weg zum Studium
  • Wie Studierende ihr Studium finanzieren
  • Talking about future events
  • Future time and time expressions
  • The verb werden + wohl
  • Expressing probability
  • Specifying additional information about actions
  • Verbs with prepositional objects
  • Das deutsche Schulsystem

German II Module 5   
Ein Praktikum in Wien Part 1

  • Job interview
  • Providing additional descriptive information about people and topics
  • Nominative, accusative, and dative case relative pronouns
  • Berufe: Talking about occupations
  • Berufswahl und Berufsausbildung in deutschsprachigen Ländern
  • Proposing activities, making suggestions
  • Present tense subjunctive with würde, hätte, wäre

German II Module 6
Ein Praktikum in Wien Part 2

  • Vienna music life
  • Describing people and things
  • Endings on adjectives after ein-words, der-words, or neither
  • Talking about characteristics of good job applicants
  • Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs
  • Österreich
  • Talking about Austria
  • Comparing people and things

German II Module 7
Feste, Feiertage und Ferien Part 1

  • Fairy tales
  • Die Brüder Grimm und ihre Kinder-und Hausmärchen
  • Narrating past events
  • The narrative past: using verbs
  • The past perfect
  • Karneval, Fasching, Fastnacht
  • Vacations

German II Module 8
Feste, Feiertage und Ferien Part 2

  • Using diminutives
  • Die Schweiz
  • Fest-und Feiertage
  • Talking about consecutive events in the past
  • Talking about concurrent events in the past
  • Saying when events occur
  • The subordinating conjunctions als, nachdem, ob, wann, and wenn
  • Expressing ownership
  • The genitive case
  • Genitive prepositions

German II Module 9
Geschichte und Geografie Deutschlands Part 1

  • Sehenswürdigkeiten in Berlin
  • Speculating about activities, making suggestions
  • The subjunctive mood
  • The present subjunctive of können and the other modal verbs
  • Making polite requests and suggestions
  • Deutschland: von der Monarchie zur Republik (Part I)
  • Role reversal statements
  • The past subjunctive
  • The double-infinitive construction
  • Talking about unreal situations with Wenn-clauses

German II Module 10
Geschichte und Geografie Deutschlands Part 2

  • Die Geschichte Berlins
  • Talking about actions as a process
  • Wenn-clauses for unreal conditions
  • Deutschland: von der Monarchie zur Republik (Parts II and III)
  • Talking about actions as a process
  • The passive voice
  • Freistaat Sachsen: Leipzig und Dresden

German II Module 11
Ende gut, alles gut!

  • Review of high frequency structures
  • Etwas and nichts
  • The influence of English and German on each other
  • American influence on German-speaking central European culture
  • German, Austrian and Swiss influence on American culture
  • Zwei Liebesgedichte

**Outlines are subject to change, as courses and materials are updated.**

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The move away from physical books to eTextbooks means you get the latest, most up-to-date version available. This also makes your training more accessible, so you can study anywhere you have your phone or tablet. The best part is that all materials are included in your training cost so there are NO extra fees for books!

Internet Connection

  • Broadband or High-Speed - DSL, Cable, and Wireless Connections

*Dial-Up internet connections will result in a diminished online experience. Classroom pages may load slowly and viewing large audio and video files may not be possible.

Hardware Requirements

  • Processor - 2GHz Processor or Higher
  • Memory - 1 GB RAM Minimum Recommended

 

PC Software Requirements

  • Operating Systems - Windows 7 or higher
  • Microsoft Office 2013 or higher. Also, you could use a general Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
  • Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended
    • Cookies MUST be enabled
    • Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
  • The Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
  • PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
  • Adobe PDF Reader
  • QuickTime, Windows Media Player &/or Real Player

 

MAC Software Requirements

  • Operating Systems - Mac OS x 10 or higher with Windows
  • Mac office programs or a Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
  • Internet Browsers- Google Chrome is highly recommended
    • Cookies MUST be enabled
    • Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
  • The Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
  • PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
  • Adobe PDF Reader
  • Apple QuickTime Media Player

 


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1400 Robinwood Drive
Hagerstown, MD 21742
United States
Phone: 240-500-2553

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