German 2 Syllabus
Text: Deutsch heute (5th edition, by Moeller, Liedlaff, Adolph, Kirmse, Lalande, Houghton Mifflin, 1992)
Video Instructor: Ruth Urbom
1. Chapter 7: Review of old grammar
Interview: personal data
Modal Verbs review
Vocabulary: Restaurant Menu (page 198)
2. Chapter 7: The verb gefallen
Noun endings -heit and -keit
Infinitives used as nouns
Vocabulary: Clothing
3. Chapter 7: Review clothing vocabulary
Dialogue (page 196)
Perfect tense
Reading passage (page 201, through line 25) *Students should review passage at home.
4. Chapter 7: Irregular weak verbs: participles
Strong verbs: participles
Reading passage through line 42 *Students should review passage at home.
5. Chapter 7: Perfect tense: strong verbs, verbs with prefixes, verbs ending in -ieren
Reading passage through line 52 *Students should review passage at home.
6. Chapter 7: Finish reading passage (pages 201-203)
Perfect tense: auxiliary verb sein
Dependent clauses
Review of prepositions
Students should have workbook Chapter 7 completed after Lesson 6.
7. Chapter 8: Review of perfect tense
Dialogue (page 234)
Vocabulary: television
hin and her
8. Chapter 8: More on hin and her
Vocabulary building: word families
-ung ending
Reading passage (pages 239 through line 24) *Students should review passage at home.
9. Chapter 8: Verbs describing position
Two-way prepositions
Review of all prepositions
Reading passage (pages 239-240 , through line 48) *Students should review passage at home.
10. Chapter 8: Prepositional phrases: 2-way prepositions
Prepositions an and auf
Reading passage (page 239 to end) *Students should review passage at home.
11. Chapter 8: Discussion of reading passage
Verb and preposition combinations
Personal pronouns in Dative case
12. Chapter 8: Review verb-preposition combinations
Review dative personal pronouns
Word order: answering questions
Word order: adverbs of time
13. Chapters 8-9: Da- and Wo- compounds
Review: prepositions
Dialogues (page 270)
Students should have Workbook Chapter 8 completed by end of Lesson 13.
14. Chapter 9: Interview: Birthdays
Vocabulary: household chores
Vocabulary: rooms in house
Genitive case
15. Chapter 9: More on genitive case
Possessives
Adjective endings after der-words
Reading passage (page 276 through line 27) *Students should review passage at home.
16. Chapter 9: Review adjective endings
Ordinal numbers and date
Reading passage through line 40 *Students should review passage at home.
17. Chapter 9: Review date
Adjective endings after ein-words
Unpreceded adjectives
Prepositions w/object in Genitive case
Reading passage to the end *Students should review passage at home.
Students should have Workbook Chapter 9 completed after Lesson 17.
18. Chapter 10: Questions on reading passage
Vocabulary: body parts
Dialogue: page 304
Verbs: Daily routine
Introduce reflexive verbs
19. Chapter 10: Interview: daily routine
Reflexive verbs
20. Chapter 10: The construction um...zu
Infinitives used with zu
Comparative adjectives
21. Chapter 10: Irregular comaprative adjectives
Superlative adjectives
Reading passage (pages 312-313, through line 27) *Students should review passage at home.
22. Chapter 10: Review superlative
Adjectives used as nouns
Reading passage through line 59 *Students should review passage at home.
23. Chapters 10-11: Interview - favorite things to do
Reading passage to end
Dialogue (page 342)
Students should have Workbook Chapter 10 completed after Lesson 23.
24. Chapter 11: Vocabulary: job interview
Simple past tense: sein and haben
Simple past tense: modal verbs
25. Chapter 11: Simple past: weak verbs
Simple past: Irregular weak verbs
26. Chapter 11: Simple past review
Simple past: Strong verbs
Reading passage (page 347, through line 22) *Students should review passage at home.
27. Chapter 11: Review: strong verbs
Werden in simple past
Past perfect tense
Wenn/Wann/Als
Reading passage to end *Students should review passage at home.
Students should have Workbook Chapter 11 completed after Lesson 27.
28. Chapter 12: Dialogue (page 376)
Immer + comparative
Diminutive endings
29. Chapter 12: Wurde-construction
Present subjunctive of sein and haben
Reading passage (page 380, through line 25) *Students should review passage at home.
Interview: leisure activities
30. Chapter 12: Conditional sentences
Modals in Subjunctive
Reading passage through line 43
31. Chapter 12: Subjunctive of strong verbs
Subjunctive of weak verbs
Reading passage to end *Students should review passage at home.
32. Chapter 12: Past subjunctive
General review
Students should have Workbook Chapter 12 completed after Lesson 32.