German II

German II Module 1
Man kann alles in der Stadt finden Part 1

• Wo or wohin?
• Prepositions indicating location
• Two-case prepositions and verbs used with them
• Student discounts
• Shopping
• Talking about where you like to go in your free time
• Talking about where to run errands
• Stuttgart
• Giving directions
• The prefixes hin and her
• Verbs commonly used with two-case

German II Module 2
Man kann alles in der Stadt finden Part 2

• Soccer and professional sports in Central Europe
• Talking about when events happen
• Time expressions in the dative and accusative
• Talking about means of transportation
• The preposition mit with means of transportation
• Expressing time, manner, place
• Expressing the purpose for an action
• Verbs of destination vs. location
• Word order: time, manner, place
• The subordinating conjunction damit
• Munich

German II Module 3
An der Uni studieren Part 1

• Interjections, Rejoinders, and Particles
• Deutsche Hochschulen
• Talking about activities we do for ourselves
• Reflexive verbs
• Reflexive pronouns
• Im Badezimmer
• Talking about daily hygiene routines
• Talking about illness: krank sein
• Studieren vs. lernen

German II Module 4
An der Uni studieren Part 2

• Der Weg zum Studium
• Wie Studierende ihr Studium finanzieren
• Talking about future events
• Future time and time expressions
• The verb werden + wohl
• Expressing probability
• Specifying additional information about actions
• Verbs with prepositional objects
• Das deutsche Schulsystem

German II Module 5   
Ein Praktikum in Wien Part 1

• Job interview
• Providing additional descriptive information about people and topics
• Nominative, accusative, and dative case relative pronouns
• Berufe: Talking about occupations
• Berufswahl und Berufsausbildung in deutschsprachigen Ländern
• Proposing activities, making suggestions
• Present tense subjunctive with würde, hätte, wäre

German II Module 6
Ein Praktikum in Wien Part 2

• Vienna music life
• Describing people and things
• Endings on adjectives after ein-words, der-words, or neither
• Talking about characteristics of good job applicants
• Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs
• Österreich
• Talking about Austria
• Comparing people and things

German II Module 7
Feste, Feiertage und Ferien Part 1

• Fairy tales
• Die Brüder Grimm und ihre Kinder-und Hausmärchen
• Narrating past events
• The narrative past: using verbs
• The past perfect
• Karneval, Fasching, Fastnacht
• Vacations

German II Module 8
Feste, Feiertage und Ferien Part 2

• Using diminutives
• Die Schweiz
• Fest-und Feiertage
• Talking about consecutive events in the past
• Talking about concurrent events in the past
• Saying when events occur
• The subordinating conjunctions als, nachdem, ob, wann, and wenn
• Expressing ownership
• The genitive case
• Genitive prepositions

German II Module 9
Geschichte und Geografie Deutschlands Part 1

• Sehenswürdigkeiten in Berlin
• Speculating about activities, making suggestions
• The subjunctive mood
• The present subjunctive of können and the other modal verbs
• Making polite requests and suggestions
• Deutschland: von der Monarchie zur Republik (Part I)
• Role reversal statements
• The past subjunctive
• The double-infinitive construction
• Talking about unreal situations with Wenn-clauses

German II Module 10
Geschichte und Geografie Deutschlands Part 2

• Die Geschichte Berlins
• Talking about actions as a process
• Wenn-clauses for unreal conditions
• Deutschland: von der Monarchie zur Republik (Parts II and III)
• Talking about actions as a process
• The passive voice
• Freistaat Sachsen: Leipzig und Dresden

German II Module 11
Ende gut, alles gut!

• Review of high frequency structures
• Etwas and nichts
• The influence of English and German on each other
• American influence on German-speaking central European culture
• German, Austrian and Swiss influence on American culture
• Zwei Liebesgedichte

**Outlines are subject to change, as courses and materials are updated.**