German 1B: Topics for Final Exam on 12/15/14

Here are the topics in general for the final exam, so that you can focus on the essentials.  

I.  A) Listening section on favorite activities and b) identify seasons 

II.  1. Write sentences on the following: 1.  Your daily routine, what you have to do
                                                             2.  What you are wearing
                                                              3.  Your leisure time activities 
                                                              4.  What you like to eat for various meals 

2.  Which words don't fit? 

3.  Match vocabulary to definitions 

III.  Grammatik

a.  Personal pronouns: nom, acc., dative fill in blanks

b.  Fill in blanks with correct forms of verbs, include modals and separable prefix verbs.

c.  Connect sentences using coordinating conjunctions

d.  Write sentences answering questions wo or wohin using two-way prepositions

e.  Write sentences describing activities using the present perfect tense (haben or sein + past participle)

f.  Comparisons using "als" 

g.  Sentences using the imperative (command) form. 

IV.  A reading passage 

V.  A "Kultur" question based on one of the Landeskunde Info passages 

German 1B/10B: Assignment for 12//9/14 - 10B Presentations and Review of Kapitel 4-7

Continue to work on workbook/lab manual for Kapitel 7 to hand in on 12/16.  

 Complete the assigned sections of the review test, Kapitel 7.  These will be reviewed in class. 

The German 10B students will give their presentations first, with all students asking each one follow-up questions.  

To prepare for the review, look at and actively review the following: 

Kapitel 4:

1.  How to tell time.  Thema 1 and Akt. 2

2.  Akt. 3

4.  Thema 2: Look at Tageszeiten, p. 118 and A.  For B, write out your own weekly schedule.  

5.  Separable prefix verbs, p. 124: Übung 4.  Review as per Beispiel but ALSO, rewrite the sentences using the present perfect tense.

6.  Modals verbs, p. 128:  study the chart and reread the notes.  Übung 6: review 
Übung 7, p. 130, review and replace kann with muß, then redo in the plural using "wir" + modal. 

7.  The imperative, p. 133: review the forms of the imperative with special attention paid to the informal singular and reread p. 135. 

Übung 16, fill in the blanks. 

Kapitel 5 

1.  Thema 1, p. 146.  Review the vocabulary on the page and describe what the three persons in the picutres are wearing, using accusative (einen), where appropriate.  

2.  Practice the vocabulary by writing out what you are wearing or what you would wear under certain conditions, as in Akt. 2. 

3.  Thema 2, p. 149.  Review the dialog, noting especially the use of "gefallen" and "passen" with the dative pronouns. 

4.  Thema 3, p. 152.  Review the food-related vocabulary.  B, p. 153: identify 4-5 Lebensmittel for each category.  

5.  The dative case, p. 157.  Review and fill in blanks for Übung 1 and 3, p. 158-159.  

6.  Review articles and possessive adjectives in the dative, p. 159.  Study the chart. 

7.  Review Dative case for indirect objections, p. 160 and redo Übung 5 and 7.   

8.  Review Prepositions with the dative case, p. 164 and study the uses for each preposition. 

Kapitel 6: 

1>  Review vocabulary in A and B, p. 181.  

2.  Review two-way prepositions, p. 186, paying particular attention to the discussions in the Notes regarding "wo" vs. "wohin."  

3.  Redo Übung 2, and then redo again using the dative, answering the question: Wo bist du?  Here you will use the dative. 

4.  Review carefully describing location vs. describing placement, pp. 190-91.  Then redo Übungen 7 and 8.

5.  Review expressing events in the past, p. 194.  Simple past tense of sein and haben.  Study the chart and know the conjugations of these two verbs inside and out! Redo Übung 11. 

Kapitel 7: 

1.  Thema 1, review vocabulary for the various Sportarten, p.208. 

2.  Thema 2, p. 210.  Review the vocabulary for Hobbys ...

3.  Thema 3, p. 212.  Review the vocabulary for "die Jahreszeitung und Wetter."  Also, see pp. 232-233.  You will not need to know this actively, but be able to recognize the terms and associate them with the seasons. 

4.  Coordination conjunctions, p. 216.  Review and know the conjunctions and when they are used.

5.  The present perfect tense, pp. 216-223.  Review the various components (i.e. formation of past participles with weak verbs vs. strong verbs, mixed verbs, use of haben vs. sein, and pp of verbs with prefixes.)   Redo Übung 4, p. 219, Übung 6, p. 221, Übung 7 (what are the past participles of these verbs?), Übung 8, p. 222. and Übung 11, p. 225.  If you already have the answers written in your book, try to redo w/out looking!  

6.  Expressing Comparisons: the Comparative, p. 226.  Review formation of comparative forms and redo Übung 14, p. 227.