German 1 - Fall 2003
Pacing Guide
[ Mr. Kandah, Instructor ] [ Cybergerman Website ]

Instructional Resources for the course:

  1. Daily Lessons and Objectives, Fall 2003 - German 1
    http://www.southern.dpsnc.net/~nkandah/cgi-bin/german1lessons.cgi

  2. Read German 1 Student Writings
    http://www.southern.dpsnc.net/~nkandah/cgi-bin/German1Display.cgi

  3. German 1 - Enter your work into the database - USERNAME/PASSWORD REQUIRED!!
    http://www.southern.dpsnc.net/~nkandah/german/german1Entry.html

  4. Cybergerman Website at Southern High School
    http://www.southern.dpsnc.net/german/

  5. Second Language Studies Curriculum, NC Standard Course of Study, Grades 9-12
    http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/second_languages/grades912.htm

  6. Komm mit! - Holt German Level 2
    a textbook authored by George Winkler and published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, © 2000.

    Each students get a copy of the Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook and the Practice and Activity Workbook that accompany the textbook series.

Unit 1 - Introduction to the German Language

  1. Policies/Guidelines for the Class
  2. Distribute textbooks
  3. Geography of the German Speaking Lands.
  4. How much German do you REALLY know? English and German relationships
  5. Famous Germans.
  6. Wie heißt du? What's your name? - Simple Introductions with CD.
  7. Students choose a German name to used throughout the semester.
  8. The numbers 0 through 20.
  9. Why study German anyways? - Discussion.

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Topics completed by August 12, 2003

Unit 2 - Who are you?

  1. Chapter Opener -Brandenburg.
  2. States of the Federal German Republic
  3. Our New Friends
  4. Saying hello and goodbye - vor der Schule.
  5. Asking someone's name and giving yours.
  6. Asking who someone is.
  7. Forming yes/no questions.
  8. Casual German versus formal German.
  9. Definite articles in German.
  10. Asking someone's age and giving yours.
  11. Talking about where people are from.
  12. Capitals of German states.
  13. Telling how one comes to school.
  14. Post cards from Germany

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Topics completed by August 19, 2003

Unit 3 - Fun and Games

  1. Discussing what one does in their free time.
  2. Talking about interests.
  3. Talking about other people's interest - 3rd person address.
  4. Expressing likes and dislikes using gern
  5. More leisure vocabulary.
  6. Present Tense of verbs; the verbal phrase
  7. Saying when you do various activities.
  8. Asking for an opinion; expressing yours with varying degrees of enthusiasm.
  9. Agreeing and disagreeing
  10. Reading - things to do on the weekend.

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Topics completed by August 27, 2003

Unit 4 - Where do you live?

  1. Talking about where you and others live.
  2. Offering something to eat and drink.
  3. Responding to an offer.
  4. Saying please, thank youand you're welcome.
  5. Describing a room.
  6. Pronouns in German - 3rd person sg/pl.
  7. Talking about your family.
  8. Describing people in detail - physical characteristics and personalities.
  9. Asking how someone looks.
  10. Numbers 1 - 100.
  11. Reading - advertisements for housing property.

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Topics completed by September 10, 2003

Unit 5 - School!

  1. Location Opener - Schleswig-Holstein
  2. Talking about class schedules.
  3. Using a German-style class schedule.
  4. Using time to discuss schedules.
  5. German school systems - contrast with American-style system.
  6. Official versus casual expressions for time.
  7. The verb haben.
  8. Sequencing a series of events.
  9. Time expressions using days of the week.
  10. Expressing likes/dislikes and favorites.
  11. Discussing grades.
  12. Responding to good news and bad news.
  13. Talking about school supplies.
  14. Talking about prices.
  15. Money in the European Union - the Euro.
  16. Pointing things out in a school supply store.
  17. Reading - schools in Germany.

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Topics completed by September 23, 2003

Unit 6 - Buying Clothes

  1. Expressing wishes when shopping for clothes.
  2. Conversion tables - Dollar to Euro
  3. Definite articles/indefinite articles, accusative case.
  4. Colors in German
  5. Shopping habits in Germany.
  6. Commenting on clothes.
  7. Describing clothes; giving compliments.
  8. Responding to compliments.
  9. Talking about how clothes fit.
  10. Clothing styles for typical German teenagers.
  11. Talking about trying on clothes.
  12. Separable-prefix verbs.
  13. Reading - Do clothes make a person?

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Topics completed by October 7, 2003

Unit 7 - Making Plans

  1. Starting a conversation with commonly used niceties.
  2. Telling more casual time.
  3. Talking about when to do things.
  4. Using time expressions.
  5. Making plans using modal verbs.
  6. Using modal verbs; word order.
  7. What do German Teenagers do in their free time?
  8. Ordering food and beverages from a typical German cafe.
  9. Stem-changing verbs in German.
  10. Talking about how something tastes.
  11. Paying the check.
  12. Reading - What's going in Hamburg?

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Topics completed by October 22, 2003

Unit 8 - Helping Around the House

  1. Expressing obligations.
  2. Extending an invitation.
  3. Declining/accepting an invitation with varying degrees of enthusiasm or regret.
  4. The modal verb müssen.
  5. Reentry - separable-prefix verbs.
  6. What do Germans do for the environment?
  7. Talking about how often you have to do things.
  8. Offering assistance; responding in the affirmative.
  9. The modal verb können
  10. The accusative case pronouns, first and second person, sg/pl.
  11. Talking about the weather.
  12. Celsius versus Farenheit.
  13. Reading - Are German teenagers helpful around the house?

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Topics completed by November 5, 2003

Unit 9 - Going Shopping

  1. Commonly food items in German.
  2. Telling where one would typically buy these items.
  3. How Germans shop for groceries.
  4. Asking what you should do; modal verb Sollen
  5. Telling someone what do; giving informal commands.
  6. How do Germans help each other with shopping, chores, etc.
  7. Talking about quantities - grams, liters, etc.
  8. Saying you want something else while shopping for food.
  9. Giving reasons; answering the question "Why?"
  10. The word "because" in German; conjunctions in German.
  11. Saying where you were and what you bought.
  12. Adverbs referring to the past.
  13. The past tense of sein.
  14. Reading - Eating healthy in Germany.

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Topics completed November 21, 2003

Unit 10 - Americans in Munich

  1. Talking about where something is located.
  2. Landmarks in cities - key vocabulary.
  3. Layout of a typical German city.
  4. Asking where something is; responding to these queries.
  5. Telling you do not know - the verb wissen
  6. Reading - What do Germans like to eat, typically?
  7. Asking for and giving directions.
  8. Formal command forms.
  9. Talking about what there is to eat and drink.
  10. Saying you do not want anymore.
  11. Expressing opinions.
  12. Negation of indefinite articles with kein.
  13. The subordinating conjunction dass

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Topics completed December 19, 2003