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101 Course Content:

Required text: Deutsch Na Klar

The following topics are presented in 101:

• Meeting People: greetings and goodbyes, introducing oneself, expressions of courtesy
• Talking about yourself and others
• The University and school:classes, fields of study
• The Family: family relations, describing people, professions
• Recreation: pastimes, going out, places in the city
• Shopping: clothing, colors, choosing items, paying
• At a restaurant: foods, reading the menu, ordering, paying
• Looking for a place to live
• Calendar, telling time, holidays, daily schedule

 101 Course Objectives:

• Understand classroom instructions from professor
• Carry on a brief conversation (1-5 minutes) about any of the topics presented in German 101
• Understand brief conversations (1-5 minutes), with some repetition, about familiar topics from German 101
• Read brief texts (1-3 paragraphs) about familiar topics from German 101
• Write brief compositions (1-3 paragraphs) about familiar topics from German 101, with the help of a dictionary

101 Course Expectations:

In order to meet these goals, students must:

• Recognize all and master most of the vocabulary in chapters 1-6 of Deutsch Na Klar
• Understand and recognize all the grammatical structures from chapters 1-6
• Master usage and production of the following structures:

  Number, gender, and plurals of nouns
  Formation of the present tense: regular, vowel-change, modals, separable prefix
  Irregular verbs: sein, haben, werden, wissen
  Word order in statements and questions
  Personal pronouns and possessive adjectives
  Nominative, accusative, dative: cases, uses, articles
  Command forms
  Prepositions: dative (aus, bei,…), accusative (durch, für,…), two-way (an, auf…)