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German IV and V
  

German IV and V

Recommended Prerequisite:  German I, II & III for German IV; all for German V
Grades Offered:  9-12
Credit:  1/2 to 1
State Code:  3054 and 3099
MNPS Course Code: FLA1450 and FLA 1445


Course Description
The course objectives are to continue to develop higher proficiency in the target language. Unedited authentic passages, both taped and written, will be used to strengthen students' ability to understand spoken and written German in a variety of contexts. The students should use German as extensively as possible. Current issues in German speaking countries and in Europe will be included in the course materials. Some literary selections from novels, magazines and poetry will be presented in addition to textbook selections. Compositions, picture descriptions, and oral presentations strengthen the students' skills in spoken and written expression. Independent projects and Internet technology are used to develop proficiency in real-world areas of interest.  Students will reach intermediate-high levels on the ACTFL's proficiency scale.

 

Course of Study

Standard Conventions of German Grammar: Using the German language, the student is able to use, understand and answer…

  • Interrogative questions with the question words: Wer, Wen, Wem, Wessen, Was, Wann, Wie, Wo, Woher, Wohin, Was für, Wie viel, Wie viele, and Warum.
  • Yes/No Questions
  • Present tense use of regular, irregular, and modal verbs
  • Conversational past and narrative past of regular and irregular verbs.
  • Future tense
  • Subjunctive II tense in expressing unreal, wishful, and polite thinking and speaking.
  • Passive tense
  • A larger number of idiomatic expressions
  • Word order – verb second and last position except after subordinating conjunctions.
  • The five coordinating conjunctions: und, aber, denn, oder, and sondern.
  • Expanded subordinating conjunctions:  besides weil, dass, and question words used as subordinating conjunctions, the difference between als, wenn, and wann.
  • Relative pronouns as subordinating conjunctions in describing a modified noun.
  • All commands: du, ihr, Sie and the inclusive wir.
  • Differentiation of adverbs showing location versus motion.
  • Flavoring particles
  • Case with declination of articles for nominative, accusative, dative and genitive cases.
  • Use adjective endings that are dependant upon the case, including those preceded by ein words, der words and unpreceeded adjectives.
  • Comparative and superlative of adjectives and adverbs.
  • Pronouns – Personal and reflexive pronouns in nominative, accusative and dative cases.
  • Numbers – cardinal numbers in counting, in amounts, time expressions, and ordinal numbers in dates.
  • Prepositions – Use prepositions requiring accusative, dative, and genitive cases, the prepositions that can be either accusative or dative, and idiomatic usage of prepositions.
  • Plurals – recognition and use of the various formations of plural nouns with the added exceptional pronouns with some masculine nouns and the dative plurals.

 

Standard German IV and V functions: Using the German language, the student is capable of functioning successfully in…

  • Doing everything from level I, II and III and…
  • Introducing not only self, but also others and can give more details to include adjectives and adverbs about present and past activities for two to three minutes.
  • Giving detailed information about a variety of topics including: vacation, interests, their home, city, and state, movies, music, health, future plans and goals, and careers.
  • Expressing likes, dislikes and favorites and why they feel the way they do.
  • Answering and asking others questions about most topics in present, future, past and in the subjunctive or unreal condition.
  • Describing a series of pictures orally and written to tell a story.
  • Taking notes on what the teacher and others students present in German in order to answer questions later or write a summary.
  • Speaking about a topic not related to self, for example, something in history or politics or giving instructions on how to perform something.

 

Is capable of performing the following tasks:

  • Listen and take notes to longer recorded or video passages.
  • Summarize both orally and written what was read, recorded or on video.
  • Listen to a passage and answer more complex written questions and pick out important information.
  • Analyze a reading passage and give the major points of the article even if some vocabulary is unknown.
  • Correctly answer a series of questions and elaborate on the answers they give.
  • Read short stories, newspaper articles, anecdotes, and fairy-tales and condense and rewrite in their own words.
  • Read a novel written for their level.

  

Thematic Vocabulary

  • Can recognize, use, and elaborate on vocabulary associated with daily functions of life in situations such as health, relationships, school, sports, hobbies, and eating giving detail with adjectives, adverbs and prepositional phrases.
  • Can recognize and use vocabulary for most situations to include: city, clothing, entertainment, weather, shopping, health, house, and vacation, geography, history, and government.
  • Can recognize and use more idioms, slang, and colloquial expressions.
  • Can use German word building strategies including: compounds, prefixes and suffixes used to form nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
  • Acknowledge that there are many synonyms and expressions for expressing the same or a similar meaning and can adjust their speaking and writing to include more of those words for a more sophisticated German.

 

Standards

Standards are based on the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) and American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) standards.

AATG: http://www.aatg.org/

ACTFL: http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/LANGUAGELEARNING/OtherResources/ACTFLProficiencyGuidelines/TheACTFLGuidelines.htm

Tennessee Standards can be found at

http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/ciforeignlang/ciflmodern1.htm

 

 

Textbook

 None, though the German III text may be used if not finished in level III. Wolfgang Kraft.  Deutsch Aktuell 3 St. Paul, Minnesota: EMC Publishing, 2004.  Otherwise, teacher collected authentic materials need to be used.