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German 4

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Course Summary

Gain German conversational fluency through discussions on a range of themes, including global challenges, planning for the future, expressing preferences, and appropriate work behavior. Enhance language skills by delving into cultural topics, including cinema, artistic works, historical sites, and international travel. 

Students develop and expand grammar competency in advanced concepts, such as irregular verbs, the subjunctive, the passive voice, relative clauses, the narrative past, the past perfect, and much more. In this course, students participate in technology-assisted interactive sessions throughout the term, engaging in spontaneous discussions in German alongside prompt instructor support and feedback. 

This class is conducted in German.

Curriculum

This is a 2-semester course. We do not recommend taking both semesters simultaneously.

Unit 1
  • Traveling by Plane
  • Where Compounds
  • Expressions for Times of Day
  • Preferences and Dislikes
Unit 2
  • Climates
  • Preterite Irregular Verbs
  • Opposites
  • Historical Sites: Useful Phrases
  • Stem-changing Irregular Verbs
Unit 3
  • Driving
  • The Subjunctive
  • Verbs Used as Nouns
  • Demonstrative Adjectives
  • Passive Voice
Unit 4
  • Bad Work Behavior
  • Passive with Modal Verbs
  • Relative Clauses
  • Transitional Words
  • Exclamations
Unit 5
  • Classic Movies
  • Movie Preferences
  • Compound Words
  • The Passive Pluperfect
  • Passive Voice Narrative Past
Unit 6
  • The Work of Filmmakers, Poets, and Authors
  • The Superlative
  • Conjunctions (Coordinating and Subordinating)
  • False Friends
  • Expressing Enthusiasm and Disappointment
Unit 7
  • Introduction to German 4 Semester 2
  • Identity
  • Passive Voice with Modals
  • Expressing Approval and Disapproval
  • Compliments
Unit 8
  • Political Interests
  • (Genitive) Possessives
  • Word Order of Adverbials
  • In The Know
  • Plurals
Unit 9
  • Personal Priorities
  • Modal Verbs with Double Infinitives
  • Responsibilities and Obligations
  • Conversational Past (Perfect Case)
  • Offering Help and Telling What To Do
Unit 10
  • Schooling and Senior Year
  • Past Subjunctive with Modals
  • Justifying Your Answers
  • Past Participles as Adjectives
  • Expressing Obligation
Unit 11
  • Poems & Short Stories
  • Creating Nouns from Verbs
  • The Subjunctive I
  • Past Perfect with Modals
  • Fairy Tales
Unit 12
  • Global Citizenship & Refugees
  • Forming Questions
  • Infinitives Used as Nouns
  • Extending and Responding to an Invitation
  • Relative Pronouns After Prepositions