Overview
Description
Introduction to basic German language structures and cultural topics with a focus on development of communicative proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Units
Lecture4
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Restrictions
For beginners only.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- discuss their personal interests and experience using the present tense, the present perfect tense, modal verbs, and the nominative, accusative, and dates cases (with articles and pronouns).
- demonstrate aural comprehension and the ability to respond to commands, questions, and short texts in oral and written formats.
- express their present interests concerning university studies, the family, hobbies, living spaces, current work, and future profession.
- produce orally and in written form their likes and dislikes concerning seasons, clothing, and free-time activities.
- identify and produce time expressions for personal matters and historical events.
- compare cultural aspects concerning holidays, student life, and becoming adults in the US and German-speaking countries.
- describe their own living situations in terms of personal possessions and their physical arrangement.