Vorsprung - A Communicative Introduction to German Language And Culture, Enhanced

An innovative and lively first-year program, VORSPRUNG: A COMMUNICATIVE INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, ENHANCED 3rd Edition, uses a unique five-skills approach to help you develop realistic abilities in speaking, hearing, reading, and writing German. Utilizing �focus on form� activities, the program presents a systematic, clear introduction to the essentials of German grammar and practices high-frequency structures and vocabulary in interactive activities. It also provides you with cultural knowledge relevant to your own life and then asks you to compare your culture to the habits and behaviors of the German-speaking people of Europe--providing you with a more enriching language experience. To prepare you for successful communication in today�s rapidly changing world, VORSPRUNG exposes you to a wealth of spoken and written authentic textual materials and offers an array of in-class and online activities that provides ample opportunities for you to practice German in current contexts.

List of contents

KAPITEL EINS: Fangen Sie bitte an.
ANLAUF I: Annas Albtraum. Strukturen und Vokabeln. I. Understanding commands and requests. The imperative. A. Formation of the formal imperative. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Aktivitäten im Klassenzimmer. B. The word bitte. ANLAUF II: Annas Traum. BRENNPUNKT KULTUR: Greetings and farewells. Strukturen und Vokabeln. II. Describing yourself and others. A. The verb sein; subject pronouns. B. The pronoun “you”. BRENNPUNKT KULTUR: Titles of address. III. Asking for someone’s name. The verb heißen. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: das Alphabet. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Zahlen. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Aussehen. IV. Asking for information and clarification. Question formation. A. Information questions. B. “Yes/no” questions. V. Identifying people and classroom objects. A. Noun gender and number. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: das Klassenzimmer, der Hörsaal. B. The nominative case: definite articles der, das, die. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Farben. C. The nominative case: indefinite articles and kein. Sprache im Alltag: Abbreviated forms of ein. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Länder und Nationalitäten. BRENNPUNKT KULTUR: Where German is spoken. D. The nominative case. E. Pronoun substitution.
KAPITEL ZWEI: Familie und Freunde.
ANLAUF: Anna Adler stellt sich vor. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Annas Familie. Strukturen und Vokabeln. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Familie und die Verwandten. BRENNPUNKT KULTUR: German immigration to North America. I. Indicating possession or ownership. The verb haben.
Sprache im Alltag: Abbreviated ich-forms of verbs. Sprache im Alltag: Expressions with the verb haben. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Studienfächer. II. Expressing what you like and don’t like. The expression gern haben. BRENNPUNKT KULTUR: Types of universities in Germany.
III. Describing actions. Present tense of regular verbs. A. Conjugation of regular verbs in the present tense. B. Present tense equivalents in English and German. IV. Talking about what you like and don’t like to do. Verbs + the adverb gern. A. Present tense of verbs with gern.
B. Position of gern and nicht gern. V. Talking about what you have and don’t have. The accusative case. A. Definite and indefinite articles. B. Masculine N-nouns. ABSPRUNG: Anna schreibt eine E-Mail. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Monate. Strukturen und Vokabeln. VI. Referring to people and things. Accusative pronouns. VII. Creating variety and shifting emphasis. Position of subject and verb. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Wochentage. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Zeitausdrücke. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Uhrzeit. VIII. Describing daily activities. Regular present tense verbs: verbs with separable prefixes and two-verb constructions. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Onkel Hannes’ Alltag. IX. Expressing negation. Position of nicht. VIDEOTOUR: Texas-Deutsch. ZIEL: Eine E-Mail schreiben. ENDSPURT (online): Annas E-Mail.
KAPITEL DREI: Was gibt es in Heidelberg und Mannheim zu tun?
ANLAUF: Was halten wir von Anna? Was hält sie von uns? Sprache im Alltag: Assumptions with bestimmt, sicher, wahrscheinlich, wohl. BRENNPUNKT KULTUR: Mealtimes in German-speaking countries. Strukturen und Vokabeln. I. Describing activities. Present tense of stem-vowel changing verbs. The verb wissen. Sprache im Alltag: es gibt, was gibt es ...?, was gibt’s? II. Expressing relationships or ownership. Nominative of possessive adjectives. III. Expressing additional and contrastive information and justifications. Coordinating conjunctions. IV. Stating personal preferences. The adverb lieber. V. Expressing what you would like to do. The modal verb möchte. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Lebensmittel. BRENNPUNKT KULTUR: The metric system. Sprache im Alltag: Specifying amounts. Sprache im Alltag: Use of the metric system. Sprache im Alltag: Bitte schön. ABSPRUNG: Heidelberg und Mannheim. BRENNPUNKT KULTUR: Heidelberg and Mannheim. Strukturen und Vokabeln. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Freizeitaktivitäten. VI. Expressing possibilities. The modal verb können. VII. Referring to people and th

About the author

Thomas A. Lovik is a Professor of German and former Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages at Michigan State University. He has published in the area of contrastive pragmatics of German/English and issues of the profession in the United States. He regularly teaches Business German, Linguistic Analysis of Modern German, teaching methods for undergraduates and graduate students, and graduate courses on the German language. He coordinates the first-year German language program and supervises graduate teaching assistants. He is active locally in the AATG Michigan chapter and the Michigan World Language Association. He is a member of several national organizations—AATG, ACTFL, MLA and the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators, and served as the editor of Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German from 2005–2010.J. Douglas Guy teaches German at Salem State University after years of teaching German in secondary schools, community colleges and adult education. He was involved in the development of instructional texts and media for German and Russian programs as an editor and ghostwriter and has been a presenter at state and national conferences. At the secondary level he regularly ran foreign exchange programs in Germany and Austria, and he has supported college students in their interest to study abroad. He has lived for extended periods in Hamburg and in Frankfurt am Main and taken courses in Hamburg, Weimar, and Berlin. He has also worked as a court interpreter, translator, freelancer photographer, and steward for Lufthansa German Airlines.Monika Chavez was born and raised in Austria and studied German and history at the University of Vienna. While a Fulbright student in Santa Fe, N.M., she continued her education first at the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) and then at the University of Texas at Austin, where she specialized in Applied German Linguistics. In 1992, she joined the German Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her position has allowed her to develop and teach an extensive scope of courses in German language, linguistics, and applied linguistics, with a sizable number of graduate students in the department and related fields choosing applied linguistics/second language acquisition as their area of specialization. She also co-directs the Ph.D. (major and minor) program in Second Language Acquisition.

Summary

An innovative and lively first-year program, VORSPRUNG: A COMMUNICATIVE INTRODUCTION TO GERMAN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE, ENHANCED 3rd Edition, uses a unique five-skills approach to help you develop realistic abilities in speaking, hearing, reading, and writing German. Utilizing “focus on form” activities, the program presents a systematic, clear introduction to the essentials of German grammar and practices high-frequency structures and vocabulary in interactive activities. It also provides you with cultural knowledge relevant to your own life and then asks you to compare your culture to the habits and behaviors of the German-speaking people of Europe--providing you with a more enriching language experience. To prepare you for successful communication in today’s rapidly changing world, VORSPRUNG exposes you to a wealth of spoken and written authentic textual materials and offers an array of in-class and online activities that provides ample opportunities for you to practice German in current contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Monika Chavez, J. Douglas Guy, Thomas A. Lovik
• Publisher: National Geographic Learning
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781305659797
• ISBN: 978-1-305-65979-7
• Dimensions: 214 mm x 28 mm x 275 mm
• Weight: 1452 g
• Series: World Languages
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies