German Syllabus

Beginning Students

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German Lessons: Beginners – Level One
Lektion
Lesson
Thema – Grammatik
Audio
Language Lab: Sound files for learning to pronounce German.
Lesson 1.1 – Grüße: Common greetings.
Lesson 1.2 – Das ABC: With sound plus a pronunciation guide for German letters and words.
Lesson 2 – Personal Pronouns: I, you (formal and familiar), we etc. With Quiz.
Lesson 3 – Introduction to noun and gender: der, die, das. With German Gender Quiz.
Lesson 4.1 – Two important verbs: haben (to have) and sein (to be)
Lesson 4.2 – German verbs in the present tense
Lesson 5 – Common adjectives and colors
Test 1
Review Test 1 (covers lessons 1-5)
Lesson 6 – Land und Leute: Countries, nationalities and languages. With exercises and quiz.
Lesson 7 – German Numbers: 0-20. With exercises and audio.
Lesson 8 – German Numbers: 21-100. With exercises and audio.
Lesson 9 – Meine Familie und ich – Talking about your family and relations.
Lesson 10 – Wie komme ich dorthin? – Directions and going places.
Test 2
Review Test 2 (covers lessons 6-10)

Weekly practice at home includes alphabet audio, greetings, numbers

Assignment Due the Following Week
Sept. 9 – Audio, Lesson 1,1
Sept. 16 – Lesson 1.2
Sept. 23 – Lesson 2
Sept. 30 – Lesson 3
Oct. 7 – Lesson 4.1
Oct. 14 – Lesson 4.2
Oct. 21 – Lesson 5
Oct. 28 – Test 1
Nov. 4 – Lesson 6
Nov. 11 – Lesson 7
Nov. 18 – Lesson 8
Nov. 25 – No assignment

Intermediate Students

Sept. 9 – Review Chapters 1-4, Ex. 1-9
Pronunciation

Sept. 16 – Chapter 5 Ex. 10-14
Der, die, das
er, sie, es

Sept. 23 – Chapter 6 concepts
Ex. 15,-17
Command form
shoe verbs
accusative case

Sept. 30 – Chapter 7 concepts
Ex. 18, Ex. 19, Ex. 20, Ex. 21, Ex. 22, Ex. 23
Interrogative case
Feminine nouns (in)

Oct. 7 – Chapter 8 concepts
Ex. 24. Ex. 25, Ex. 26, Ex. 27, Ex. 28
Plural nouns
Sein/haben
Accusative case
Prepositions

Oct. 14 – Chapter 9 concepts
Ex. 29, Ex. 30, Ex 31, Ex, 32
Regular verbs
Modal verbs
Word Order

Oct. 21 – Chapter 10 concepts
Ex. 33, Ex. 34, Ex. 35, Ex. 36
Modal verbs – present tense
Indirect Objects & verbs with io
Questions with indirect objects
Prepositions with dative

Oct. 28 – Chapter 11 concepts
Ex. 37, Ex. 38, Ex. 39, Ex. 40
More shoe verbs
More prepositions with dative/acc
darauf, damit

Nov. 4 – Chapter 12 (Review)
Ex. 41—43, 46
To know
Genitive case
Interrogative pronoun
Genitive prepositions

Nov. 11 – Chapter 12 (Review) Ex. 44, 45, 47 Conversations

Nov. 18 – Chapter 13

Nov. 25 – Chapter 14

Each week, spend 10 minutes daily listening to the Alphabet, greeting, other audio lessons