Goals

I. Communicative Topics: Germany Today

1. Current geographical and political situation of Germany.
2. German reunification
3. Describing Berlin, the capital city of Germany
4. History of post-World War II Germany

II. Communicative Structures

1. Adjectives and adverbs with -lich.
2. Past participles.
3. Word order of personal pronouns.
4. meinen, glauben, vermuten, denken.
5. passive voice.

Goals

1. Proverbs
2. Songs
3. Poems
4. General Survey of German Literature - 750 A.D. to the present.
5. The political system of Germany - and by extension the whole of Central Europe.

Goals

I. Communicative Topics: Friends and Free-Time

1. Telling a story in the past tense.
2. Describing a family excursion.
3. Writing letters.
4. Describing family members.

II. Communicative Structures

1. Adjective endings.
2. Predicate adjectives and attributive adjectives.

Goals

I. Communicative Topics: Career and Work Issues

1. Talking about a job.
2. Describing a German bank.
3. Discussion of guest workers in Germany and the role of the Turks in the German economy.
4. Roles of women and men in the German economy.

II. Communicative Structures

1. Present subjunctive II: contrary-to-fact conditions.
2. Perfect tenses in the passive voice.
3. Relative pronouns.
4. Relative pronouns after prepositions.

Goals

I. Communicative Topics: Having Fun

1. Telling a funny story.
2. Describing your favorite day.

II. Communicative Structures

1. Passive voice in the present and past perfect tense.
2. Wenn.....,dann.... constructions.
3. Demonstrative pronouns.

Goals

I. Communicative Topics: Young Life

1. Describing a move from one house to another.
2. Speaking in detail about school and studies.
3. Talking about current musical styles.
4. Colloquial speech of young people in Germany.

II. Communicative Structures

1. da- compounds.
2. Present participles as adjectives.
3. Clauses with weil, da, denn.

Goals

I. Communicative Topics: Taking Trips

1. Telling about a class trip.
2. Talking about vacations in general.
3. Taking a trip to Turkey.
4. A trip to North Germany.

II. Communicative Structures

1. Double infinitive.
2. Indirect discourse (Subjunctive I)
3. Reflexive verbs.

Goals

I. Communicative Topics: Technology

1. Talking about computers.
2. Describing electronic devices in house or apartment.
3. Talking about automobile technology.

II. Communicative Structures

1. Comparison of adverbs and adjectives.
2. Irregular comparison.
3. Superlatives + aller-
4. Time expressions.

Goals

I. Communicative Topics: German History

1. Nazi Germany.
2. Earlier German history.
3. Talking about political themes.

II. Communicative Structures

1. Infinitive clauses with zu.
2. hin - her.

Goals

I. Communicative Topics: Sport, Games and Adventure

1. Describing an important event.
2. Relating an interesting experience.
3. Explaining the rules of a board game in German.

II. Communicative Structures

1. Expressing hopes and wishes.
2. If-then clauses.
3. würde + infinitive.
4. Verbal expressions with prepositions.

Goals

I. Communicative Topics: Literature and Art

1. Expressing opinions about art and literature.
2. Discussing themes of some important German authors.

II. Communicative Structures

1. Future perfect tense.
2. Conjunctions als, wenn, wann.