German I

German I Module 1
Fangen Sie bitte an Part 1

• The imperative
• Understanding requests
• The word bitte
• Greetings and farewells
• Recognize important aspects of German structure and usage
• Titles of address
• The verb sein
• Subject pronouns
• The pronoun you

German I Module 2
Fangen Sie bitte an Part 2

• Asking for someone’s name
• The verb heißen
• The alphabet and numbers
• Describing physical characteristics
• Asking for information and clarification
• Identifying people and classroom objects
• Definite and indefinite articles
• Colors
• Pronoun substitution
• German speaking countries

German I Module 3
Familie und Freunde Part 1

• German immigration to North America
• Identifying family relationships
• Indicating possession or ownership
• The verb haben
• Identifying academic subjects
• Describing actions
• Present tense of regular verbs
• Talking about what you like and don’t like to do
• Verbs and the adverb gern

German I Module 4
Familie und Freunde Part 2

• Talking about what you have and don’t have
• The accusative case : definite and indefinite articles
• Position of subject and verb
• Describing daily activities
• Talking about birthdays and schedules
• Referring to people and things
• Expressing negation
• Texas-Deutsch
• Types of Universities in Germany

German I Module 5   
Was gibt es in Heidelberg und Mannheim zu tun? Part 1

• Assumptions with bestimmt, sicher, wahrscheinlich, and wohl
• Present tense of stem-vowel changing verbs
• Stereotypical images of Americans and Germans
• Expressing relationships or ownership
• Expressing additional and contrastive information and justifications
• Stating personal preferences using gern and lieber
• Expressing what you would like to do
• Mealtimes in German-speaking countries

German I Module 6
Was gibt es in Heidelberg und Mannheim zu tun? Part 2

• Talking about foods that are liked
• The metric system
• Specifying amounts
• The expression bitte schön
• Grocery shopping
• Heidelberg and Mannheim
• Talking about what you can do and like to do
• Expressing possibilities with können
• Talking about geographic landmarks in Germany
• Talking about people and things that you know with the verb kennen
• Accusative of possessive adjectives
• Talking about more than one item

German I Module 7
Unterwegs Part 1

• Studienmöglichkeiten für Deutschlernende
• Assumptions with wohl and wahrscheinlich
• Identifying personal items
• Telling friends or relatives to do something
• The ihr-imperative
• The wir-imperative
• Particles with the imperative
• Expressing ability, fondness, and expected obligation
• Rad fahren

German I Module 8
Unterwegs Part 2

• Expressing permission: dürfen
• Expressing necessity: müssen
• Expressing strong desire: wollen
• Mit der Bahn fahren
• Mit dem Auto fahren
• Identifying personal characteristics
• Expressing spatial movement, the recipient of something, opposition, and omission
• Frankfurt am Main

German I Module 9
Freundschaften Part 1

• Use of definite article with first names
• The conversational past
• The auxiliaries haben and sein
• Past participles
• Irregular (strong) and mixed verbs
• Prefixes of past participles
• Hansestadt Hamburg
• Inseparable prefix and ieren verbs
• Past participles of sein and haben

German I Module 10
Freundschaften Part 2

• Describing weather conditions
• Use of ganz
• Talking about the seasons
• Distinguishing between friends and acquaintances
• Describing personal relationships
• Expressing fondness or love
• Expressing complex ideas with a subordinating conjunction
• Expressing a condition
• Giving reasons
• Expanding on an opinion or idea
• Positioning information in a German sentence
• German eating habits

German I Module 11
Willkommen in Tübingen Part 1

• Identifying household objects
• Expressions involving animals
• German universities and living in a dorm
• The dative case
• Indicating location
• Describing the features of a house
• Addresses and locations in German
• Tübingen

German I Module 12
Willkommen in Tübingen Part 2

• Expressing temporal and spatial relationships
• Emphasizing one’s opinion
• Expressing attitudes and conditions such as gratitude, pleasure, ownership, and need for assistance
• Describing your body and physical discomfort
• Specifying what you are talking about
• Zielaktivitäten

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