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102 Course Content:

Required text: Deutsch Na Klar, Graded German Reader

The following topics are presented in 102:

• Sports and hobbies
• Seasons and the weather
• Health: health care, the body, illnesses
• Jobs and professions & finding a position
• The home: parts of the house, finding a place to live
• Daily routines and chores, personal hygiene
• Traveling: modes of transportation, buying a ticket, at the travel agency
• Finances: saving, spending, budgeting, banking

 102 Course Objectives:

• Understand classroom instructions from professor
• Carry on a brief conversation (2-6 minutes) about any of the topics presented in German 101-102
• Understand brief conversations (2-6 minutes), with some repetition, about familiar topics from German 101-102
• Read and understand brief simplified texts in German
• Write brief compositions (1page) about familiar topics from German 101-102, with the help of a dictionary

102 Course Expectations:

In order to meet these goals, students must:

• Recognize all and master most of the vocabulary in chapters 7-12 of Deutsch Na Klar
• Understand and recognize all the grammatical structures from chapters 7-12
• Master usage and production of the following grammatical concepts:

  Coordinating (aber, und,…) and subordinating (dass, weil, …) conjunctions
  Reflexive pronouns and verbs (sich rasieren)
  Comparisons and superlatives (schön, schöner, am schönsten)
  Formation/use of the simple past (ich sagte) & perfect (ich habe gesagt) tenses
  The genitive case (das Auto des Mannes)
  Adjective endings
  Relative pronouns (…der Mann, den ich gesehen habe)
  Verb-preposition combinations (warten auf, lachen über, …) & da-/wo-
  compounds
  Subjunctive forms and use for hypothetical situations, wishes05/19/2009