Accompanying tapes help develop listening skills and pronunciation. A workbook provides opportunity to practice writing skills and grammar. Students are introduced to nominative and accusative, and to present and future tenses. Slides, films, filmstrips, field strips, and songs help students begin to understand the behavior, beliefs, and values of German culture. The second year German course is desinged to continue developing the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Students review vocabulary and grammer from the first year, and add present perfect and dative case.
Dialogues and short stort reading passages introduce new vocabulary, grammer, and culture. Activites incude learning to order from German menu, using German table manners, and studying terms for using public transportation. Correct pronunciation and structure of the language are stressed and reinforced by tapes and workbooks. Slides, songs, films, filmstrips, and fieldtrips add to the study of culture. The third year German course continues working with the four skills of language learning.