SAM [Workbook] Assignments

These are due towards the end of each chapter, but we strongly urge you to start on them early. The sooner you get started on them, the more you'll get out of the in-class activities for the chapter, and the better you'll know what you need to ask questions about in class. If you do all of the workbook activities the night before they're due, you'll turn them into busywork, and you won't learn nearly as much from them as you could.

Please remember that for SAM homework, you should start each assigned exercise, but you need not finish it if you think you've gotten the point and don't need more practice.  Also, if some types of assignments don't seem useful to you, talk to your instructor about whether you might be able to do something else instead that seems more worthwhile to you.

Language Learning Journals

These are due roughly every other week. We suggest that you plan ahead to find a day each week when you have time for the LLJ, rather than leaving it to the last minute.

Donnerstag, 3. Januar TEIL 1	0a. Kaufen Sie die Bücher, die Sie noch nicht haben [=which you don't already have] [assuming you still have Vorsprung (V) and the accompanying Student Activities Manual (SAM) from German 101, this will just mean buying Eine Woche voller Samstage] 0b. Lesen Sie im Coursepack (CP Seite i-xvi) oder online den Semesterplan [CP Seite i ODER auf CTools] die Kursinformation die Information über die "Oral Exams" die Information über das Language Learning Journal 1a. Sehen Sie das Kapitel 7 Video - klicken Sie hier! - und überfliegen Sie [=skim] V Kapitel 7. If you are having trouble seeing the video, click here to download the newest version of Quicktime. A sure sign that you need a new version of Quicktime is if you are hearing audio but seeing a blank screen. If you're having problems but the installer/updater tells you you already have the newest version of Quicktime, try uninstalling Quicktime and then reinstalling it from the site; this may fix your problem. To download the video to your desktop, right-click on it and choose "Save Target As" [on a PC], or hold down the "ctrl" key while you click on it and choose "Save Link As" [on a Mac]. If you don't like Quicktime, this would allow you to try playing the video using some other players: It should play in iTunes. Click View > Actual Size if the screen looks tiny; move the mouse over the bottom of the video to see the controls (Play, Pause etc.) It should also play in the very versatile VLC Media Player. Click here for more info on the VLC Media Player, and download it if you like it. If you continue to have problems, please email Hartmut with a specific description of your problem (e.g. what error message you're getting, what browser & operating system you're using, what you tried to do to fix the problem, whether you've experienced a similar problem in other contexts, etc.) 1b. Bitte sehen Sie auch dieses geniale kurze Video über die Wechselpräpositionen [=2-way prepositions], das an einer High School in Minnesota gemacht wurde! 1c. When you're ready, click here to take the online Kapitel 7 "pre-quiz" and use the "Submit" button to submit your score to your instructor. You need to get a score of 80% or higher in order to get a "check."  You may try the exercise repeatedly, and if you like you can submit your results more than once.  If you submit a score below 80%, you will get a "check minus" for this assignment. If nothing happens when you click "submit," make sure you've enabled popups for this page You will be asked 20 questions. IF YOU GET A QUESTION WRONG, KEEP TRYING UNTIL YOU GET IT RIGHT. THE PROGRAM WILL ONLY CALCULATE YOUR SCORE IF YOU HAVE ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS. Incorrect guesses will reduce your score. You actually see 20 questions out of an item bank of 42 for this particular exercise. To see all 42 items, click here. Note that this version of the exercise is not "submittable"; it's just available for additional practice. 2. To review the video lectures from German 101, click on the "Index of Video Lectures." To review the vocabulary from German 101, go to the online Flash Card Program and load the vocabulary for the chapters you want to review. We recommend spending ten minutes a day to review one chapter each day, and continuing this until you've reviewed all chapters sufficiently. Rather than just looking at the flash cards, we recommend that you try to quickly say a simple sentence with the vocabulary on each card before moving on to the next one.
Donnerstag, 3. Januar TEIL 2	1a. Begin learning the Kapitel 7 vocabulary by doing some or all of the following: Look through the "Wissenswerte Vokabeln" sections in Kapitel 7 Read over the Kapitel 7 vocabulary a few times (V Seite 282-3) Use the online Flash Card Program to load the Kapitel 7 vocabulary and practice it for a while. 1b. When you're ready, follow the links below to take some short online quizzes related to the vocabulary for this chapter. These quizzes will also include a few words that are not on our vocab lists. The goal of this assignment is just to motivate you to begin studying the chapter vocabulary (and, we hope, to motivate some of you to play with this site some more on your own!), so the questions won't cover all of the chapter vocabulary. In order for you to demonstrate that you completed this assignment, we'd like you to do the following: Work on the first exercise and click on "Auswerten" [="Evaluate"] until you've successfully guessed all the words. Click "OK" on the score panel that comes up and proceed to the next step. Take a screenshot of your browser window showing that you've answered each item correctly. Click here for instructions on how to take a screenshot, and samples of what your screenshot could look like. Paste your screenshot into a blank Word document. [Click in the Word document and select Edit > Paste] Repeat this procedure for the remaining 4 exercises. Email this Word document to your instructor as an attachment. Please don't print it out: we don't want you to expend a lot of paper and toner on this assignment. If you have technical difficulties, just explain them to your instructor in class and s/he will try to help you. If you don't know your instructor's email address, send your email to Hartmut and let him know your instructor's name. Here are the links to the five exercises. Note that for most of the exercises, if you're not sure what the picture is supposed to represent, you can roll your mouse over the image and then a label for the picture will appear in English and French (!). Fahrzeuge Gebäude Geschäfte Positionen Richtungen ALTERNATIVE TO 1b: We highly recommend the exercises from the above site, and this is the only time we will require you to do them in German 102. But if you hate them or find them pointless, then you can instead choose 15 words from the Kapitel 7 vocab list, write a sentence with each, and hand your sentences in in class.
Dienstag, 8. Januar TEIL 1	1. Lesen Sie auf dem Web über Case Overviews (Ignore info on the Genitive). You need not "submit" the diagnostic exercises electronically, but of course we encourage you to try them, as well as the practice exercises. 2. Schreiben Sie einen kurzen Absatz [=paragraph] (70-100 Wörter) über sich selbst.  Wenn Sie möchten, benutzen Sie die "Gefühle" Vokabeln in CP (Seite 2).  [This is not an essay; it's just meant to get you back into writing in German.  Have fun with it!]
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Donnerstag, 10. Januar TEIL 1	1. Kapitel 7 Kultur-Texte: Bargain Buys: No-Frills Shopping, German Style Take It From a German: How Not to Die on German Roads What Discipline?  Of German Lines and Pythons Lesen Sie "Brennpunkt Kultur" in V: Seite 243 ("Studentenermäßigungen"), Seite 251 ("Einkaufen"), Seite 254 ("Stuttgart"), Seite 261 ("Fußball und Profi-Sport in Mitteleuropa") und Seite 268 ("München") Note that class will begin with a mini-quiz on these readings. 2a. Sehen Sie die ersten 25 Minuten des Films Bella Martha [=Mostly Martha] [ca. 20 Minuten]. Go to CTools > Resources > Filme > Required Movies > 102 > "Mostly Martha" You must be using a computer on campus for this to work. Click here for detailed instructions. 2b. Click here to download the "Bella Martha Worksheet," fill it out as you watch the clip, and hand it in in class. 2c. If you enjoy the movie, watch all of it and write about it for your next LLJ! 3. OPTIONAL: Watch the "Kapitel 7 Videos zum Spaß"
Donnerstag, 10. Januar TEIL 2	REMINDERS: a. For all SAM assignments, you should attempt each assigned exercise, but need not do all the questions if it gets boring and you've gotten the point. b. Remember to use the answers in CP to correct all SAM exercises in a different color. 1a. Schreiben Sie SAM Seite 89-101 Übung B, C, D, F, H, J, K, L, N & O. OPTIONAL: Übung E, I Note: there's an error in the answer key for Übung F, p. 92. The answers to the last three questions should be: 6. b, 7. e, 8. h 1b. Schreiben Sie SAM Seite 227-233 Zieltextdiktat & Übung A, C-F OPTIONAL: Übung B, H [This is very practical, but you may find the map hard to work with...] TO ACCESS THE SAM AUDIO FILES: Go to the Vorsprung Textbook Website; use the pulldown menu to navigate to the Kapitel you want, click on "Improve your grade" and then follow the SAM Audio link! BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN IHR COURSEPACK!
Dienstag, 15. Januar TEIL 1	1. Lesen Sie "Gib's auf!" (CP Seite 5) und schreiben Sie Antworten auf die "Nach dem Lesen" Fragen. Some of the questions are speculative, so go ahead and speculate You should hand this in in class tomorrow, but it's OK if you have to write "Ich weiß nicht" for one or two of the questions, or if you want to answer the last question in English. BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN IHR COURSEPACK!
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Donnerstag, 17. Januar TEIL 1	1. Lernen Sie für den Test: Test 7 Wiederholungsblatt. In case you did not get the review sheet in class, click here to download it. Please email Hartmut if this review sheet (or link) is not up-to-date! Please show your instructor your completed Wiederholungsblatt in class. If you've attempted most of the sections, you will get a "check"; if you've done everything and drafted the essay, you will get a "check plus." Your instructor will determine the grade in class by taking a very quick look while you're discussing your responses in pairs, so that you can keep the sheet and continue studying with it. 2. LLJ 1 Follow the link to see a description of the Language Learning Journal assignment, and a lot of ideas for what you could do. If you can't find anything you're enthusiastic about doing, please talk to your instructor so s/he can try to help you, since this assignment will be much more effective if you enjoy it
Donnerstag, 17. Januar TEIL 2	1. Keine Hausaufgabe Lernen Sie für Test 7 2. OPTIONAL: Lesen Sie auf dem Web über Präpositionen (Ignore info on Genitive prepositions and on prepositional verbs) und über Wortstellung. You need not "submit" the diagnostic exercises electronically, but of course we encourage you to try them, as well as the practice exercises.
Dienstag, 22. Januar TEIL 1	1a. Sehen Sie das Kapitel 8 Video - klicken Sie hier! - und überfliegen Sie [=skim] V Kapitel 8. If you are having trouble seeing the video, please take a look at the troubleshooting suggestions for the Kapitel 7 video! 1b. When you're ready, click here to download a worksheet on the Kapitel 8 grammar, which you should fill out and hand in! 2. Für Donnerstag, den 31. Januar: Aufsatz 1 (200 Wörter). THEMA: Klicken Sie hier!
Dienstag, 22. Januar TEIL 2	1a. Begin learning the Kapitel 8 vocabulary by doing some or all of the following: Look through the "Wissenswerte Vokabeln" sections in Kapitel 8 Read over the Kapitel 8 vocabulary a few times (V Seite 329-330) Use the online Flash Card Program to load the Kapitel 8 vocabulary and practice it for a while. 1b. When you're ready, click here to take the Kapitel 8 Vokabelquiz. The goal of this assignment is just to motivate you to begin studying the chapter vocabulary, so the questions won't cover all of the chapter vocabulary. You need to a score of 80% or higher in order to get a "check."  You may try the exercise repeatedly, and if you like you can submit your results more than once.  If you submit a score below 80%, you will get a "check minus" for this assignment.
Donnerstag, 24. Januar TEIL 1	1. Lesen Sie V Seite 302-310 ("Die beste Uni für mich") und schreiben Sie: Aktivität 26 Aktivität 27 [Look up the meanings of any words whose meanings you can't guess] OPTIONAL: Aktivität 28 Aktivität 29 Aktivität 30 NOTES TO HELP YOU WITH THIS TEXT: Be sure to read Brennpunkt Kultur, Seite 304-5, which will help you understand the text! Jessie is trying to decide between three universities (in Passau, Jena & Berlin) and between two subjects (Betriebswirtschaft & Psychologie). She's chosen two of the universities based on their rankings, and one because she likes the city. Near the beginning of the paragraph about Passau, the "dafür" in "Dafür steht man an der Mensa lange an..." means something like "But on the other hand" [i.e. it does not have it's "literal" meaning "for that"]. She seems to have a problem with men wearing pink shirts. The first paragraph about Jena tells us various things Jessie liked there; the second paragraph begins by telling us that she had little interest in the city before her trip, and came only because of the ranking ("Eigentlich hatte Jessie keine große Lust..."), then tells us some more things Jessie liked there. The section on Berlin is introduced by a short paragraph telling us some other things Jessie cares about. We then find out that Jessie may not mind the mediocre rankings of the Psychology dept. there, because she wants to be in Berlin ["Mag ja sein, dass...aber" = "It may be true that...but"] - but since many others think like her, she may have a hard time getting a spot there. Most of the last paragraph is actually not about Jessie's opinions about Berlin, but rather about what she learned from her trip: what she needs to pay attention to ("worauf ich achten muss"), and that the subject she chooses to study will not in itself determine her future ("Ein Studium ist keine Einbahnstraße," i.e. a course of study is not a one-way street leading to a predetermined goal).
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Dienstag, 29. Januar TEIL 1	REMINDERS: a. For all SAM assignments, you should attempt each assigned exercise, but need not do all the questions if it gets boring and you've gotten the point. b. Remember to use the answers in CP to correct all SAM exercises in a different color. 1a. Schreiben Sie SAM Seite 103-120 Übung F-H, J, L, M, O, R, S, U OPTIONAL: Übung D, E, K, P, Q, W 1b. Schreiben sie SAM Seite 235-242 Zieltextdiktat & Übung A, C-G, K OPTIONAL: Übung H, I, J 2. Aufsatz 1 (200 Wörter). THEMA: Klicken Sie hier!
Dienstag, 29. Januar TEIL 2	1. Kapitel 8 Kultur-Texte: Draftophobia: Blown Away by the Fear of Air You Have What?  Mysterious Illness in Germany Germany’s Sauna Obsession: Expose Yourself to the Culture Philologus Ad Nauseam: Germany’s Aged Students Lesen Sie "Brennpunkt Kultur" in V: Seite 290 ("Universitätskurse"), Seite 304 ("Das deutsche Universitätssystem"), Seite 311 ("Wo Studierende ihr Studium finanzieren") und Seite 318 ("Das deutsche Schulsystem") Note that class will begin with a mini-quiz on these readings. 2a. Sehen Sie Episode 1 von Verliebt in Berlin [ca. 25 Minuten]. Go to CTools > Resources > Filme > Required Movies > 102 > "Verliebt in Berlin - Episode 1" You must be using a computer on campus for this to work. Click here for detailed instructions. 2b. Click here to download the "Verliebt in Berlin - Episode 1 Worksheet," fill it out as you watch the clip, and hand it in in class. 3. OPTIONAL: Watch the "Kapitel 8 Videos zum Spaß"
Donnerstag, 31. Januar TEIL 1	1. LLJ 2 IDEE (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!): Browse this lively and interesting blog written by a University of Michigan student during her year abroad in Freiburg. Look for episodes in which she describes university life or interesting intercultural experiences. Blogs begin with the latest entries, so if you're interested in reading about her adjustment to life in Germany, you would want to go back to the archived entries for September 2006 [start at the bottom of the page] [the August 2006 entries still take place in Ann Arbor]. If you found reading this interesting, you may want to come back to it for future LLJs. Please try writing about it in German, but feel free to use English where you need to, since the blog is in English, and we don't want you to struggle with trying to translate things!
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Dienstag, 5. Februar TEIL 1	1. Lernen Sie für den Test: Test 8 Wiederholungsblatt. In case you did not get the review sheet in class, click here to download it. Please email Hartmut if this review sheet (or link) is not up-to-date! Please show your instructor your completed Wiederholungsblatt in class. If you've attempted most of the sections, you will get a "check"; if you've done everything and drafted the essay, you will get a "check plus." Your instructor will determine the grade in class by taking a very quick look while you're discussing your responses in pairs, so that you can keep the sheet and continue studying with it. 2. OPTIONAL: Lesen Sie auf dem Web über Prepositional Verbs (You can find practice exercises on this topic on the Prepositions page.)
Dienstag, 5. Februar TEIL 2	1. Keine Hausaufgabe Lernen Sie für Test 8! 2. OPTIONAL: Lesen Sie auf dem Web über Reflexive Verben und über Da-Compounds. You need not "submit" the diagnostic exercises electronically, but of course we encourage you to try them, as well as the practice exercises.
Donnerstag, 7. Februar TEIL 1	1a. Sehen Sie das Kapitel 9 - Teil 1 Video - klicken Sie hier! - und überfliegen Sie [=skim] V Kapitel 9 Seite 331-347. If you are having trouble seeing the video, please take a look at the troubleshooting suggestions for the Kapitel 7 video! 1b. When you're ready, click here to take the online Kapitel 9 - Teil 1 "pre-quiz" and use the "Submit" button to submit your score to your instructor. You need to get a score of 80% or higher in order to get a "check."  You may try the exercise repeatedly, and if you like you can submit your results more than once.  If you submit a score below 80%, you will get a "check minus" for this assignment. NOTE 1: Some of the items ask you to combine two sentences by noticing that they both refer to the same person, thing or idea. Usually, the second sentence will use a pronoun to refer to that person, thing or idea, and the relative pronoun will replace that pronoun. The correct relative pronoun will normally "rhyme" with the pronoun it replaces! Note also that the pronoun being replaced should not reappear in the relative clause, since the relative pronoun has replaced it. NOTE 2: Some of the items introduce you to the book Eine Woche voller Samstage, which we will begin reading soon. Although they should be self-explanatory, they may seem a little strange, so here's some background info: Ein Sams ist ein merkwürdiges Wesen [=is a strange creature]. Es ist klein und hat rote Haare auf dem Kopf und auf dem Rücken. Es hat keine Nase, sondern einen kurzen Rüssel [=a short "trunk," like an elephant has, which looks like a pig's snout on the cover illustration]. Es hat einen dicken, grünen Bauch. Es kann alles essen, und ihm schmeckt alles [=everything tastes good to it]. Der Plural von Sams ist "Samse." Samse kommen immer am Samstag, und sie bleiben eine Woche. Das Sams hat blaue Wunschpunkte [="wish points"] im Gesicht [=face]. Es kann Wunsche erfüllen [=fulfill]. Wenn es einen Wunsch erfüllt, verschwindet [=disappears] ein Wunschpunkt. Herr Taschenbier ist sehr schüchtern [=timid, shy]. Er hat eine sehr unfreundliche Vermieterin [=landlady]. Sie ist nicht nett zu ihm. Sein Chef ist auch nicht nett. Das Sams besucht Herrn Taschenbier, und macht sein Leben besser. If nothing happens when you click "submit," make sure you've enabled popups for this page You will be asked 20 questions. IF YOU GET A QUESTION WRONG, KEEP TRYING UNTIL YOU GET IT RIGHT. THE PROGRAM WILL ONLY CALCULATE YOUR SCORE IF YOU HAVE ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS. Incorrect guesses will reduce your score. You actually see 20 questions out of an item bank of 36 for this particular exercise. To see all 36 items, click here. Note that this version of the exercise is not "submittable"; it's just available for additional practice.
Donnerstag, 7. Februar TEIL 2	1a. Begin learning the Kapitel 9 vocabulary by doing some or all of the following: Look through the "Wissenswerte Vokabeln" sections in Kapitel 9 Read over the Kapitel 9 vocabulary a few times (V Seite 377-8) Use the online Flash Card Program to load the Kapitel 9 vocabulary and practice it for a while. 1b. When you're ready, click here to take the Kapitel 9 Vokabelquiz. The goal of this assignment is just to motivate you to begin studying the chapter vocabulary, so the questions won't cover all of the chapter vocabulary. You need to a score of 80% or higher in order to get a "check."  You may try the exercise repeatedly, and if you like you can submit your results more than once.  If you submit a score below 80%, you will get a "check minus" for this assignment. 1c. OPTIONAL: Try the following activities. Since this is optional, you needn't submit a screenshot! Berufe I Berufe II 2. Für Donnerstag, den 21. Februar: Aufsatz 2 (200 Wörter). THEMA: Klicken Sie hier!
Dienstag, 12. Februar TEIL 1	1a. Lesen Sie V Seite 347-352 ("Wien: Treffen Sie den guten Ton!") und schreiben Sie: Aktivität 17 Aktivität 18 [Look up the meanings of any words whose meanings you can't guess] OPTIONAL (only do this if it feels helpful to you!): Aktivität 19 Aktivität 20 Aktivität 21 Note: the title of this text is a bit of a play on words: "den guten Ton treffen" is an idiom for "behaving in an appropriately sophisticated manner," but here its literal meaning ("encounter a good tone") is also relevant, since the text describes Vienna's classical music scene. The text mentions "die deutsche Hymne" [i.e. the German national anthem], by Haydn, and "die europäische Hymne," by Beethoven [the "Freude schöner Götterfunken" chorus from his 9th symphony]. Click on the links if you'd like to hear these, and here for more info on the "Deutschlandlied"! Warum konnte Mozart seinen Klavierlehrer nicht finden? Because he was Haydn :)
Dienstag, 12. Februar TEIL 2	1. Lesen Sie Eine Woche voller Samstage Seite 7-21. Click here to download a worksheet on the text, which you should fill out and hand in! Please begin by reading the notes on the worksheet. Then look over the pictures, and read the assigned pages once quickly without stopping. Then read the text one more time more carefully, and complete the worksheet. BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN DAS SAMS-BUCH!
Donnerstag, 14. Februar TEIL 1	1a. Sehen Sie das Kapitel 9 - Teil 2 Video - klicken Sie hier! - und überfliegen Sie [=skim] V Kapitel 9 Seite 354-376. If you are having trouble seeing the video, please take a look at the troubleshooting suggestions for the Kapitel 7 video! 1b. When you're ready, click here to download a worksheet on the Kapitel 9 - Teil 2 grammar, which you should fill out and hand in! 2. LLJ 3 Mehr Ideen für LLJ 3: Go to Kaffeestunde at the Max Kade Haus, or to the South Quad or Bursley Deutschtisch, or find some other way to have a longer conversation in German! Watch a subtitled German movie on reserve at the LRC, or check one out from the Askwith Media Library in the UGLi to watch at home. If you enjoyed Verliebt in Berlin, watch the next episode via our CTools site. Click here for some notes on episode 2! Check out some of the additional links/materials related to Vienna listed here. There's not much here at the moment, but we hope to add more in the future!
Donnerstag, 14. Februar TEIL 2	1. Kapitel 9 Kultur-Texte: Bureaucracy Gone Awry: The German Certificate Fetish Love Thy Neighbor: German Law Tells You How Germany’s Patriotism Problem: Just Don’t Fly the Flag Note that the 2006 World Cup changed this somewhat: there were many comments on how unusual it was to see so many German flags displayed everywhere. Now there are once again many fewer flags to be seen, but definitely more than before 2006. Lesen Sie "Brennpunkt Kultur" in V: Seite 337 ("Wien"), Seite 353 ("Berufswahl und Berufsausbildung in deutschsprachigen Ländern") und Seite 363 ("Österreich") Note that class will begin with a mini-quiz on these readings. Two questions on the mini-quiz will be: Name THREE of the famous artists, filmmakers and writers listed on p. 337 as being closely associated with Vienna. Name THREE major Austrian cities. 2a. Sehen Sie den Kurzfilm Ausreißer [ca. 25 Minuten]. Go to CTools > Resources > Filme > Required Movies > 102 > "Ausreißer" You must be using a computer on campus for this to work. Click here for detailed instructions. 2b. Click here to download the "Ausreißer Worksheet," fill it out as you watch the clip, and hand it in in class. 3. OPTIONAL: Watch the "Kapitel 9 Videos zum Spaß" BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN DAS SAMS-BUCH!
Dienstag, 19. Februar TEIL 1	1. Aufsatz 2 (200 Wörter). THEMA: Klicken Sie hier!
Dienstag, 19. Februar TEIL 2	REMINDERS: a. For all SAM assignments, you should attempt each assigned exercise, but need not do all the questions if it gets boring and you've gotten the point. b. Remember to use the answers in CP to correct all SAM exercises in a different color. 1a. Schreiben Sie SAM Seite 121-138 Übung B, C, E, H-N, R, S OPTIONAL: Übung F 1b. Schreiben sie SAM Seite 243-8 Zieltextdiktat & Übung D-G 1. Lesen Sie Eine Woche voller Samstage Seite 22-30. Click here to download a worksheet on the text, which you should fill out and hand in! Please begin by reading the notes on the worksheet. Then look over the pictures, and read the assigned pages once quickly without stopping. Then read the text one more time more carefully, and complete the worksheet. BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN DAS SAMS-BUCH!
Donnerstag, 21. Februar TEIL 1	1. Lesen Sie Eine Woche voller Samstage Seite 31-45. Click here to download a worksheet on the text, which you should fill out and hand in! Please begin by reading the notes on the worksheet. Then look over the pictures, and read the assigned pages once quickly without stopping. Then read the text one more time more carefully, and complete the worksheet. BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN DAS SAMS-BUCH!
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Dienstag, 4. März TEIL 1	1. Lernen Sie für den Test: Test 9 Wiederholungsblatt. In case you did not get the review sheet in class, click here to download it. Please email Hartmut if this review sheet (or link) is not up-to-date! Please show your instructor your completed Wiederholungsblatt in class. If you've attempted most of the sections, you will get a "check"; if you've done everything and drafted the essay, you will get a "check plus." Your instructor will determine the grade in class by taking a very quick look while you're discussing your responses in pairs, so that you can keep the sheet and continue studying with it.
Dienstag, 4. März TEIL 2	1. Keine Hausaufgabe Lernen Sie für Test 9! 2. OPTIONAL: Lesen Sie auf dem Web über Relative Clauses (Ignore information on Genitive relative pronouns and on the relative pronouns wer, wo and was), über Adjektivendungen (Ignore information on the Genitive) und über Komparativ und Superlativ. You need not "submit" the diagnostic exercises electronically, but of course we encourage you to try them, as well as the practice exercises.
Donnerstag, 6. März TEIL 1	1a. Sehen Sie das Kapitel 10 Video - klicken Sie hier! - und überfliegen Sie [=skim] V Kapitel 10. NOTE: For the test, we will expect you to be able to produce the Narrative past [=Präteritum] forms of haben, sein, the modal verbs, the weak and mixed verbs, and the strong verbs listed in Vorsprung on pp. 395-6, so you could begin learning those now! If you are having trouble seeing the video, please take a look at the troubleshooting suggestions for the Kapitel 7 video! 1b. When you're ready, click here to take the online Kapitel 10 "pre-quiz" and use the "Submit" button to submit your score to your instructor. You need to get a score of 80% or higher in order to get a "check."  You may try the exercise repeatedly, and if you like you can submit your results more than once.  If you submit a score below 80%, you will get a "check minus" for this assignment. If nothing happens when you click "submit," make sure you've enabled popups for this page You will be asked 20 questions. IF YOU GET A QUESTION WRONG, KEEP TRYING UNTIL YOU GET IT RIGHT. THE PROGRAM WILL ONLY CALCULATE YOUR SCORE IF YOU HAVE ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS. Incorrect guesses will reduce your score. You actually see 20 questions out of an item bank of 54 for this particular exercise. To see all 54 items, click here. Note that this version of the exercise is not "submittable"; it's just available for additional practice.  2. Für Donnerstag, den 13. März: Aufsatz 3 (250 Wörter). THEMA: Klicken Sie hier! 3. LLJ 4 Mehr Ideen für LLJ 4: By now you've probably accumulated a lot of questions about the culture readings you've done online in German 101 and 102, and what you've read in the "Brennpunkt Kultur" boxes in Vorsprung - and probably also lots of other questions you'd like to ask a "real" German/Austrian/Swiss person. And there's surely someone from Germany, Austria or Switzerland whom you know from one of your classes, or from where you live or where you work, or whom you've met socially. So ask him/her if s/he'll let you interview him/her, and if s/he says yes, arrange a time, and figure out what you want to ask. Ask your questions auf Deutsch (switch to English when you need to), and perhaps also just make some conversation auf Deutsch for fun. Visit livemocha.com (perhaps combine this with the idea above!). This is a social networking site for people trying to learn languages. Allows you to do exercises (both written and spoken), and connects you with native speakers who critique what you've done. Also allows you to chat with people who speak the language you're trying to learn and who are trying to learn the language you speak. If you enjoyed Verliebt in Berlin, watch another episode via our CTools site! Go to Kaffeestunde at the Max Kade Haus, or to the South Quad or Bursley Deutschtisch, or find some other way to have a longer conversation in German!
Donnerstag, 6. März TEIL 2	1a. Begin learning the Kapitel 10 vocabulary by doing some or all of the following: Look through the "Wissenswerte Vokabeln" sections in Kapitel 10 Read over the Kapitel 10 vocabulary a few times (V Seite 429-430) Use the online Flash Card Program to load the Kapitel 10 vocabulary and practice it for a while. We strongly recommend that for each card, you try to very quickly form a sentence with that word; use some English words if necessary to speed things up. Say (or whisper) your sentences out loud. If you can't come up with a sentence quickly, just move on to the next card. 1b. When you're ready, click here to download a worksheet on the Kapitel 10 Vokabeln, which you should fill out and hand in! 1c. OPTIONAL: Try the following activity. Since this is optional, you needn't submit a screenshot! Landschaft 2a. Lesen Sie V Seite 385-7 ("Aschenputtel") und schreiben Sie A. Warum war Blut in den Schuhen der bösen Schwestern? [==> Die bösen Schwestern hatten Blut im Schuh, weil...] B. Aktivität 5 2b. OPTIONAL: you may enjoy reading Aschenputtel online at this great Grimm Brothers site.  At this site, you can read the text side by side with a dictionary (very convenient and neatly done!), or, if you prefer and are disciplined enough to get something out of reading this way, you can choose the dual language version.  From the original link, you get a menu that also allows you to see the story with illustrations, and allows you to take an online quiz on the text.  If you like this site, click here to see their web editions of lots of other Grimm fairy tales! BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN DAS SAMS-BUCH!
Dienstag, 11. März TEIL 1	1. Lesen Sie Eine Woche voller Samstage Seite 47-65. Click here to download a worksheet on the text, which you should fill out and hand in! Please begin by reading the notes on the worksheet. Then look over the pictures, and read the assigned pages once quickly without stopping. Then read the text one more time more carefully, and complete the worksheet. BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN DAS SAMS-BUCH!
Dienstag, 11. März TEIL 2	1. Aufsatz 3 (250 Wörter). THEMA: Klicken Sie hier!
Donnerstag, 13. März TEIL 1	1. Kapitel 10 Kultur-Texte: "Dinner For Who?"  Germany’s New Year "Procedure" Click here if you'd like to see the actual video (Hartmut, being a German, loves and highly recommends it...)! You can also click here to see an informative web page about the show including the complete transcript. Sorry, We’re Closed: The Challenge of Spending Money in Germany For fun (certainly not on the quiz!): Click here and do a search for "Sorry, we're closed" on this page for a comment by comedian Mitch Hedberg on the topic of American "Sorry, we're closed" signs. Frohe Weihnachten: A Visit to Germany’s Christmas Markets This text is rather long ==> please just read the first four paragraphs, and read more only if you're interested! Booze Brothers: Father's Day Debauchery in Deutschland Browse one or more of these travel blogs on Switzerland. On the mini-quiz, we'll ask you to write down something you found interesting: Basel Die Alpen ==> Lauterbrunnen, Interlaken, Grindelwald, Zermatt [==> Das Matterhorn] Zürich Bern ...or follow the "Popular Cities" Links at the top left of the pages linked above to explore blogs about other cities of your choice! Lesen Sie "Brennpunkt Kultur" in V: Seite 390 ("Die Brüder Grimm und ihre Kinder- und Hausmärchen"), Seite 394 ("Karneval, Fasching, Fastnacht"), Seite 409 ("Die Schweiz") und Seite 417 ("Fest- und Feiertage") Note that class will begin with a mini-quiz on these readings. 2. OPTIONAL: Watch the "Kapitel 10 Videos zum Spaß"
Donnerstag, 13. März TEIL 2	REMINDERS: a. For all SAM assignments, you should attempt each assigned exercise, but need not do all the questions if it gets boring and you've gotten the point. b. Remember to use the answers in CP to correct all SAM exercises in a different color. 1a. Schreiben Sie SAM Seite 139-156 Übung E-G, J-R OPTIONAL: Übung A [good vocab practice], Übung B & C ["Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten" is a classic Grimm's fairy tale about an aging donkey, dog, cat and rooster who go to Bremen to become musicians because their owners are getting ready to kill them. On the way, they find some robbers in a house, climb on top of each other and start to sing; the terrified robbers escape], Übung H [challenging reading practice], Übung T [a fun story, and good practice for the reading section of the test!] Note: For Übung K, you use the past perfect (das Plusquamperfekt) because all the actions you are filling in took place before the other actions in the text, which are in the Narrative or Conversational Past. Note: For Übung N, you may enjoy looking up your home state in wikipedia.de to find some of the factual information! 1b. Schreiben sie SAM Seite 249-255 Zieltextdiktat [Puddingschlacht = pudding fight!] & Übung B-G OPTIONAL: Übung A [Another classic Grimm's fairy tale: a father send out his seven sons to fetch water for their newborn sister's emergency baptism. In their enthusiasm to get the water, they drop the pitcher in the spring, and when they don't return, the father, thinking they forgot his request, wishes they would turn into ravens for their thoughtlessness. Because it's a fairy tale, his curse becomes reality. When the little girl grows up and the twonspeople tell her about her brothers' fate, she sets out to find and save them...] Note: For Übung D, just put check marks in the first column next to the Narrative Past verb forms you hear in the text, and then write down the infinitive forms of the verbs you checked in the second column.
Dienstag, 18. März TEIL 1	1. Lesen Sie Eine Woche voller Samstage Seite 67-70 & 76e [Starting at "Die Bürotür war noch immer abgeschlossen"] - 85. Please also read the short summaries of the pages we're skipping in the notes. Click here to download a worksheet on the text, which you should fill out and hand in! Please begin by reading the notes on the worksheet. Then look over the pictures, and read the assigned pages once quickly without stopping. Then read the text one more time more carefully, and complete the worksheet. BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN DAS SAMS-BUCH!
Dienstag, 18. März TEIL 2	Entspannen Sie sich
Donnerstag, 20. März TEIL 1	1. Lernen Sie für den Test: Test 10 Wiederholungsblatt. In case you did not get the review sheet in class, click here to download it. Please email Hartmut if this review sheet (or link) is not up-to-date! Please show your instructor your completed Wiederholungsblatt in class. If you've attempted most of the sections, you will get a "check"; if you've done everything and drafted the essay, you will get a "check plus." Your instructor will determine the grade in class by taking a very quick look while you're discussing your responses in pairs, so that you can keep the sheet and continue studying with it. 2. LLJ 5 Mehr Ideen für LLJ 5: Visit the "Step Into German" website to inform yourself about the "German" part of the German popular music scene. When you enter the site, select "skip intro" and then click on "Music Videos"; note that, below each video, you can also find a link to lyrics in German and translated lyrics in English. Explore the interview excerpts on the website "Germans and Americans Talk." The excerpts are taken from interviews the author conducted with native speakers of American English who had spent time in Germany, and conversely with native speakers of German who had spent time in the United States. Though they are some years old by now, they are still extremely interesting and relevant. In many cases, you can hear the original audio excerpt, and compare it to a German transcript and an English translation, so that this can also be great listening practice! If you enjoyed Verliebt in Berlin, watch another episode via our CTools site! Go to Kaffeestunde at the Max Kade Haus, or to the South Quad or Bursley Deutschtisch, or find some other way to have a longer conversation in German!
Donnerstag, 20. März TEIL 2	1. Keine Hausaufgabe Lernen Sie für Test 10! 2. OPTIONAL: Lesen Sie auf dem Web über "strong vs. weak verbs", über Tense Review und über Case Overviews. You need not "submit" the diagnostic exercises electronically, but of course we encourage you to try them, as well as the practice exercises.
Dienstag, 25. März TEIL 1	1a. Sehen Sie das Kapitel 11 - Teil 1 Video - klicken Sie hier! - und überfliegen Sie [=skim] V Kapitel 11 Seite 431-452. If you are having trouble seeing the video, please take a look at the troubleshooting suggestions for the Kapitel 7 video! 1b. When you're ready, click here to download a worksheet on the Kapitel 11 - Teil 1 grammar, which you should fill out and hand in! 2. Für Dienstag, den 1. April: Aufsatz 4. THEMA: Klicken Sie hier!
Dienstag, 25. März TEIL 2	1a. Begin learning the Kapitel 11 vocabulary by doing some or all of the following: Look through the "Wissenswerte Vokabeln" sections in Kapitel 11 Read over the Kapitel 11 vocabulary a few times (V Seite 472-3) Use the online Flash Card Program to load the Kapitel 11 vocabulary and practice it for a while. We strongly recommend that for each card, you try to very quickly form a sentence with that word; use some English words if necessary to speed things up. Say (or whisper) your sentences out loud. If you can't come up with a sentence quickly, just move on to the next card. 1b. When you're ready, click here to take the Kapitel 11 Vokabelquiz. The goal of this assignment is just to motivate you to begin studying the chapter vocabulary, so the questions won't cover all of the chapter vocabulary. You need to a score of 80% or higher in order to get a "check."  You may try the exercise repeatedly, and if you like you can submit your results more than once.  If you submit a score below 80%, you will get a "check minus" for this assignment. You actually see 20 questions out of an item bank of 30 for this particular exercise. To see all 30 items, click here. Note that this version of the exercise is not "submittable"; it's just available for additional practice. BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN DAS SAMS-BUCH!
Donnerstag, 27. März TEIL 1	1. Lesen Sie Eine Woche voller Samstage Seite 92-97d. Please also read the short summaries of the pages we're skipping in the notes. Click here to download a worksheet on the text, which you should fill out and hand in! BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN DAS SAMS-BUCH!
Donnerstag, 27. März TEIL 2	1. Aufsatz 4. THEMA: Klicken Sie hier!
Dienstag, 1. April TEIL 1	1a. Sehen Sie das Kapitel 11 - Teil 2 Video - klicken Sie hier! - und überfliegen Sie [=skim] V Kapitel 11 Seite 459-471. If you are having trouble seeing the video, please take a look at the troubleshooting suggestions for the Kapitel 7 video! 1b. When you're ready, click here to take the online Kapitel 11 - Teil 2 "pre-quiz" and use the "Submit" button to submit your score to your instructor. You need to get a score of 80% or higher in order to get a "check."  You may try the exercise repeatedly, and if you like you can submit your results more than once.  If you submit a score below 80%, you will get a "check minus" for this assignment. If nothing happens when you click "submit," make sure you've enabled popups for this page You will be asked 20 questions. IF YOU GET A QUESTION WRONG, KEEP TRYING UNTIL YOU GET IT RIGHT. THE PROGRAM WILL ONLY CALCULATE YOUR SCORE IF YOU HAVE ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS. Incorrect guesses will reduce your score. You actually see 20 questions out of an item bank of 30 for this particular exercise. To see all 30 items, click here. Note that this version of the exercise is not "submittable"; it's just available for additional practice.
Dienstag, 1. April TEIL 2	Entspannen Sie sich
Donnerstag, 3. April TEIL 1	1a. Kapitel 11 Kultur-Texte: Spiegel: The Germans 90-93: Timeline [copies of this will be handed out in class] Deutsche Welle: Breaking Down the Wall in the Head wikipedia: Ostalgie Backward Southerners, Frigid Northerners: Germany’s Real Divide Lesen Sie "Brennpunkt Kultur" in V: Seite 438 ("Deutschland: von der Monarchie zur Demokratie (I)"), Seite 444 ("Deutschland: von der Monarchie zur Demokratie (II)"), Seite 454 ("Deutschland: von der Monarchie zur Demokratie (III)") und Seite 470 ("Freistaat Sachsen: Leipzig und Dresden") OPTIONAL: Baring It All: Get Naked with the Germans OPTIONAL: The Hasselhoff Blemish: Germany’s Ticklish History Note that class will begin with a mini-quiz on these readings [not on the optional ones, of course!]. 1b. Lesen Sie V Seite 452-9 ("Die Geschichte Berlins") und schreiben Sie Aktivität 19, 20, 23 (just guess or look up the meanings of the words in bold print; you needn't answer the questions!) & 24. 2. OPTIONAL: Watch the "Kapitel 11 Videos zum Spaß" 3. LLJ 6 Mehr Ideen für LLJ 6: Visit the "Step Into German" website to inform yourself about the "German" part of the German popular music scene. When you enter the site, select "skip intro" and then click on "Music Videos"; note that, below each video, you can also find a link to lyrics in German and translated lyrics in English. Explore the interview excerpts on the website "Germans and Americans Talk." The excerpts are taken from interviews the author conducted with native speakers of American English who had spent time in Germany, and conversely with native speakers of German who had spent time in the United States. Though they are some years old by now, they are still extremely interesting and relevant. In many cases, you can hear the original audio excerpt, and compare it to a German transcript and an English translation, so that this can also be great listening practice! If you enjoyed Verliebt in Berlin, watch another episode via our CTools site! Go to Kaffeestunde at the Max Kade Haus, or to the South Quad or Bursley Deutschtisch, or find some other way to have a longer conversation in German! BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN DAS SAMS-BUCH!
Donnerstag, 3. April TEIL 2	1. Lesen Sie Eine Woche voller Samstage Seite 136-147 & 154-9. Please also read the short summaries of the pages we're skipping in the notes. Click here to download a worksheet on the text, which you should fill out and hand in! BITTE BRINGEN SIE MORGEN DAS SAMS-BUCH!
Dienstag, 8. April TEIL 1	Entspannen Sie sich
Dienstag, 8. April TEIL 2	REMINDERS: a. For all SAM assignments, you should attempt each assigned exercise, but need not do all the questions if it gets boring and you've gotten the point. b. Remember to use the answers in CP to correct all SAM exercises in a different color. 1a. Schreiben Sie SAM Seite 157-169 Übung B-G, J, K, M, O, P OPTIONAL: Übung A [good vocab practice], Übung I [Good practice of present and past Subjunctive. Note that you can write consequences in the Present or the Past Subjunctive: e.g. if I had slept in my German class (past Subjunctive premise), I wouldn't be able to speak German now (Present Subjunctive consequence) OR I wouldn't have met my current boyfriend/girlfriend (Past Subjunctive consequence)], Übung L [more Subjunctive practice], Übung N [good vocab practice], Übung Q [more Passive practice], Übung R [good vocab practice], Übung S [challenging reading practice] Note: For Übung G, just write one or two ideas for each situation. For number 3, suggest alternatives for Arnim's behavior, not the mother's or the doctor's! 1b. Schreiben sie SAM Seite 257-264 Übung B ("Leipzig kennen lernen" - this should really be labeled Übung A!], B ["Die Geschichte Deutschlands"], D, E, G, H OPTIONAL: Übung F & I Note: Übung D is a very interesting text about life in the former DDR, using lots of vocabulary and structures we've learned in German 101 & 102. If you find it difficult to follow, click here for a transcript of the text with extensive annotations (more annotations than you should need, to make sure it will be easy for you to follow along!).
Donnerstag, 10. April TEIL 1	1. Lernen Sie für den Test: Endexamen Wiederholungsblatt. In case you did not get the review sheet in class, click here to download it. Please email Hartmut if this review sheet (or link) is not up-to-date! Please show your instructor your completed Wiederholungsblatt in class. It's long and this is a busy time, so you will get a "check" as long as you've gotten a start on at least 5 or 6 sections; if you've done everything but not written the essays, you will get a "check plus"; if you've done everything and drafted the essays, you will get an unheard-of "check plus plus." Your instructor will determine the grade in class by taking a very quick look while you're discussing your responses in pairs, so that you can keep the sheet and continue studying with it.
Donnerstag, 10. April TEIL 2	1. Keine Hausaufgabe Lernen Sie für das Endexamen! 2. OPTIONAL: Lesen Sie auf dem Web über Konjunktiv II, über Active vs Passive Voice und über das Passiv. You need not "submit" the diagnostic exercises electronically, but of course we encourage you to try them, as well as the practice exercises.
Dienstag, 15. April	1. Lernen Sie für das Endexamen  2. Sprechen und lesen Sie in den Ferien Deutsch!  Hören Sie den Vögeln beim Singen zu [zuhören = listen to]. Sehen Sie einen Film, weil er ein Klassiker ist. Lesen Sie ein Buch, weil es ein Klassiker ist. Schreiben Sie einen Brief mit der Hand. Fragen Sie einen alten Menschen über die alten Zeiten. Frohe Ferien!!