7th grade german 1a. basic dialogue (introducing yourself, greetings) basic information about...

7th Grade German 1A

Basic dialogue (introducing yourself, greetings)

Basic information about yourself (passport)

Colors

Numbers (0- 1,000,000)

Ordinal numbers (Dates..)

Alphabet and Pronunciation

Introduction to Mini-Stories (Janosch books)

Days/Months/Seasons

Meine Stadt (My City)

Giving directions, two-way prepositions,designing and describing your city.

Exploring several German, Austrian and Swiss cities.

Uhrzeit (how to tell time)

Mein Haus und mein Zimmer

Möbel (furniture)

Das Essen (food)

Im Restaurant (dialogues in a restaurant, designing menus, shopping, role-plays, field trip to Metzger’s)

Die Raupe Nimmersatt

Märchen (introduction to German fairy tales)

“Fritz in Amerika”

Mozart

Die Reise nach Europa (passport, airport vocab, what would you pack, where would you travel, dialogue at the airport)

Die Reise in Europa (the Euro, the ICE, train vocab, dialogue at the train counter, buying a train ticket)

Die Reisebroschüre (design your own travel brochure as a final project)

Evaluation based on:

Daily Participation

Weekly quizzes and dialogues

Skits and role-plays

Projects (thematic projects)

Internet projects

(Tutoring program partnership with the UM, field trip to Metzger’s in December , field trip to German Day at the UM in March)