Final Marks are in

Thanks so much for a great semester of German. I had a BLAST teaching you and I hope you sign up for German 11 next year -- if we don't have enough people signed up, I would consider teaching a split class next year: in other words, a German 11/12 class.

Don't forget to save your money for the Spring 2013 trip to Deutschland!

Here are your final grades for IntroGerman 11. Term 3 is your final exam grade. Congrats on all your hard work. Click here to see your final marks!

Intro German 11 -- Alopecia: it's an English word

Today we finished up learning about German commands and completed #17-20 (this is for homework if you didn't finish it in class).

Details of each and every class from now to the final exam were given. Students will continue to work through the end of chapter 8 and then chapter 9 in the last week.

Next day will begin with Chapter 9 intro notes and work. Then students will learn about verbs with separable prefixes (splitty verbs) and finally accusative prepositions.

Remember to utilize your final exam review booklet which I gave you last week. That should be a constant bit of homework for German and a great way to study for the final exam.

The final exam will include all chapters up to and including chapter 9.

Intro German 11 -- Iss dein Schnitzel!

Today we learned the chapter 8 concept of accusative pronouns. We took notes and reminded ourselves that nouns retain their gender in both the accusative and nominative case.
We then completed the three sets of questions following that section of chapter 8.

Finally we ended off the class starting to learn about Commands. We learned the familiar commands ( to one person) and the command to two people.

Intro German 11 -- Zusammengewacheseneaugenbrauern

Students were assigned, last day, to complete up to and including number 4 from chapter 8.

Last day we also learned the phunny phrase, "Iss dein Schnitzel sonst kriegst du kein Nachtisch!"

Today we did an oral activity in which half the class enthusiastically spoke German.

We took notes on verbs with stem vowel changes and students were assigned questions 7,8,9, and 10. These will be due for homework.

Intro German 11 - Der Schinkenspeck schmeckt gut

Today we finished up chapter 7. Wir haben Schinkenspeckbrot gegessen! Der Schinkenspeck schmeckt lecker!

I reviewed the verbs gefallen, stehen, passen. Each of these verbs is followed by a person's name or the words mir/dir. Das rote Hemd steht dir gut (the red shirt suits you well!).

I reminded students to know the german verb reisen.

There will be a question on the chapter test that asks you to sort words to create a sentence. For example, "wollen/Katrin/ bei/bleiben/Wochen/ Sie/zwei "
The correctly sorted answer would be "Sie wollen zwei Wochen bei Katrin bleiben"

Study all the articles of clothing and their correct der,die, das. Study all the colours including the opposites: lang/kurz, bunt/eintönig, klein/gross, preiswert/teuer, weiß/schwarz, hell/dunkel.

Review and study the three new modal verbs: sollen, dürfen, können.
Review and study the future tense (i.e. the verb werden and all its forms)

Intro German 11 -- Herr Pfeiffer hat zwei Krawatten an!

Today we reviewed Kleidungsstücke vocabulary from Kapitel 7.
We also reviewed the next three modal verbs: sollen, dürfen, können.
Finally we learned about the future tense and the verb werden.
Students completed questions 16-17.
A worksheet from the chapter 7 video that we watched was assigned for homework

Kapitel 7 test will be on Monday, next week.

Intro German 11 -- Wie geht's in Deutschland Else?

Today we reviewed the colours and articles of clothing from Kapitel 7 both as notes on the board and answering these questions orally: Welche Farbe ist das? Wie gefaellt dir das?

Students completed #15 by writing down at least 10 sentences -- this was handed in at the end of class.