Kapitel 4

Assignment for Monday, October 25

Familiarize yourself with the goals and content of Kapitel 4 (p. 118); leaf through the chapter to get an overview of what we will be doing.

Quia: Use this chance to finish anything in Kapitel 3 that is still undone or that still has errors. Review areas that you feel are still not completely solid.

p. 122-123: Read Kultur: "Die Schweiz" including the poem in 4-4 (think about the questions)

p. 124: Wortschatz 1: Nomen (these are all things to eat!)

Assignment for Tuesday, October 26

Relisten to the three opening language models and do 4-1, p. 120 to prepare for a Richtig-Falsch quiz.

p. 124: Wortschatz 1: Ausdrücke, das Gegenteil; Review Nomen

p. 121: Read the Sprachnotiz The pronoun "man"

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Assignment for Wednesday, October 27

p. 127: Read about the modals dürfen, sollen, mögen

p. 128: Write 4-12, 4-13, 4-14

p. 124: Wortschatz 1: Andere Wörter, Leicht zu verstehen.

Quia: Arbeitsbuch: A4-1, A4-2, A4-3, A4-4; Vocabulary building, A4-22

Quia: Hören und Sprechen: Vocabulary building, H4-1, H4-2

Companion Website: Strukturen:  The modals können, müssen, and wollen

Assignment for Friday, October 29

p. 129: Read about Position of nicht in sentences with modal verbs, and complete the responses in 4-18, negating with nicht.

p. 130: Writing assignment 4-19

Quia: Arbeitsbuch: A4-5, A4-6, A4-7; Comprehension, A4-20, A4-21, A4-23

Quia: Hören und Sprechen: H4-4; Pronunciation, H4-14, H4-15; Comprehension, H4-3

Companion Website: Strukturen: The modals dürfen, sollen, and mögen; Omission of the infinitive after modal verbs

Assignment for Monday, November 1

p. 130: Learn the separable-prefix verbs in the verb lists

p. 130 and 132: Read the Sprachnotizen More about separable prefix verbs &  Position of nicht with separable-prefix verbs

p. 136: Listen to Du musst dein Leben ändern, and write the responses for the questions in 4-26 and 4-27

p. 124: Wortschatz 1: Verben; p. 152: Wortschatz 2: Verben (nearly all are separable-prefix verbs)

Quia: Arbeitsbuch: A4-8, A4-9, A4-10

Quia: Hören und Sprechen: H4-5; Comprehension, H4-11

Companion Website: Strukturen: Meaning of separable-prefix verbs; Position of separable prefix and position of separable-prefix verbs with modals

Assignment for Tuesday, November 2

 p. 137: Read about Imperatives and The du-imperative;  p. 138: Write 4-29

p. 138: Read Sprachnotiz about Flavoring particles and bitte in imperative sentences

p. 135: Read Infobox, Die Bahn

p. 152: Wortschatz 2: Nomen, Andere Wörter

Quia: Arbeitsbuch:  A4-11

Companion Website: Strukturen: Verb-noun and verb-verb combinations

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Assignment for Wednesday, November 3

p. 145: Read Infobox: Fußball: King of sports in Germany

p. 152: Wortschatz 2: Konjunktionen, Ausdrücke

 p. 140: Read about Position of verb in independent clauses under Word order only and do 4-34, p. 141. (The sentences in the second column are not scrambled.)

Quia: Arbeitsbuch: A4-12, A4-13, A4-14, A4-15

Quia: Hören und Sprechen: H4-6, H4-7, H4-8

Companion Website: Strukturen: Strukturen: The du-imperative; The ihr-imperative; The Sie-imperative

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Assignment for Friday, November 5

p. 146: Listen again to Ein typischer Tag in Lisas Leben, and write the responses to the questions in 4-44

p. 144: Do 4-40,

p. 147: Writing assignment: Das ist mein Tag, 4-46

p. 152: Wortschatz 2: Das Gegenteil, Leicht zu verstehen

Quia: Arbeitsbuch: A4-16, A4-17, A4-18, A4-19; Translation, 4-24, 4-25

Quia: Hören und Sprechen: H4-9, H4-10; Comprehension, H4-12, H4-13

Companion Website: Web Resources: Position of the verb in independent and dependent clauses; Dependent clause before independent clause

Assignment for Monday, November 8


Quia: Videotreff:  V, K4: Watch the video and do post-viewing activities V4-1, V4-2, V4-3

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Review for Monday's chapter test.