April+10th


 * Review of Michel Thomas**
 * **Track** || **Description** ||
 * 01 || Introduction to the method ||
 * 02 || Similarities and the relationship between English and German ||
 * 03 || Introduction to verbs (to want, to drink, to eat, to come, to do); with me, today, this evening ||
 * 04 || to be, to be able to (can), to see, to hear; when, yes, no, please ||
 * 05 || Verb conjugation with it, I, you, we; if soon ||


 * 1) I want to eat.
 * 2) Can you see it?
 * 3) When do you want to see it?
 * 4) When are you coming?
 * 5) Are you coming this evening?
 * 6) I'm coming soon.
 * 7) If you want, you can come with me.


 * **Track** || Description ||
 * 06 || to stay, to go; how, here ||
 * 07 || not, now, but ||
 * 08 || to understand, to stand; good, well, very, me ||
 * 09 || to have to (must); I'm sorry, long (time) ||
 * 10 || Tips for transferring some English vocabulary to German; to know; to bring; to find; where ||


 * 1) I have to (must) go.
 * 2) I have to (must) stay.
 * 3) Can you come with me this evening?
 * 4) When can you come?
 * 5) I'm coming soon.


 * Plans and Obligations**
 * We know how to specify times of the day in German, but for the most part, we're still lacking a vocabulary to talk about tomorrow, today, yesterday, the days of the week, days of the month, etc.
 * [|Months, Days of Week, and other Times]
 * [|Ordinal Numbers]
 * Students practice on their own, on laptops for 10 minutes (each), then after each set of 10 minutes, we play game where class is split into two sides. Each side clears of their desk, huddles together, picks a speaker, and then we take turns we play a sort of Jeopardy, where each team has time to answer, but if they're not sure, the other team gets a chance to answer.
 * We're going to play a game, where we get in partners and one person thinks of a specific day in the next month and the other person has to guess with these question °Wann hast du frei? Hast du ... frei?° The other person can only say Ja or Nein, and you switch when the person guesses the day that you're free.


 * Go over modal definitions, then explain we're only learning conjugations for 1st and 2nd person for now. These are also very useful for making plans.
 * [|Modals (1st and 2nd person)]
 * Do same thing as before on laptops, but only for 5 minutes.
 * Ich finde..., sieht aus, klingt, ich glaube, ich meine, ich denke
 * Ich finde Tennis langweilig.
 * Tennis sieht langweilig aus.
 * Tennis klingt langweilig.
 * Ich glaube, Tennis ist langweilig.
 * Ich meine, glaube ist langweilig.
 * Ich denke, Tennis ist langweilig.
 * Write a short script with your partner, using at least one form of each modal verb and 5 of the hobby words. It will be a conversation between you and your partner, discussing what to do this weekend.

BREAK


 * Review of word order with und, oder, etc...
 * Word order in dependent clauses. Dependent clauses are triggered by some words right after a comma, and the sentence structure of the second part //depends// on that word.
 * Ich weiß nicht. Wann kommt er heute? (JUST ONE VERB)
 * Ich weiß nicht, **wann** er heute kommt.
 * Ich kann nicht kommen. Ich muss aufräumen. (MODAL AND OTHER VERB)
 * Ich kann nicht kommen, **weil** ich aufräumen muss.
 * http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa010910a.htm
 * http://www.nthuleen.com/teach/grammar/weildassaktivitaet.html


 * Write a skit using each of the modals at least once, and at least 5 hobby words. You will try to find something you both want to do, then find a time to do it when you are both free. **


 * Birthdays and holidays

Talents
 * 1) Accusative case pronouns
 * 2) Memories of events
 * 3) Perfect tense
 * 4) Strong and weak past participles

http://attheteachersdesk.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-i-learned-this-year.html