German/Deutsch II

Course Objectives

During this course you are going to use two textbooks, “Deutsch Aktuell 1” and “Deutsch Aktuell 2). During level 2 you will complete chapters 8-12 and 1-2. By the end of level 2 you will be able to do the following (in both the formal and informal tenses):

• Talk about birthday presents, including what you want;
• Express when your birthday is and how old you will be;
• Offer and accept gifts;
• Identify rooms in a house and the furniture that would go in each room;
• Describe your daily activities;
• Talk about a movie you have seen or are planning on seeing;
• Express likes and dislikes on various topics;
• Describe weekend activities and hobbies;
• Discuss chores that you must do, or that other family members must do;
• Use the future tense to talk about things you are going to do;
• Talk about sports and sports clubs, including the sports Germans enjoy;
• Identify parts of the body;
• Talk about traveling using the future and past tense;
• Ask for and give directions to locations in a city;
• Describe a trip you have taken in a longer discourse;
• Use the past tense for both regular and irregular verbs;
• Describe talents and abilities;
• Talk about what you did on the weekend;
• Describe the facilities at an airport;
• Use adjectives in their comparative and superlative forms;
• Talk about youth hostels and camping facilities in Germany;
• Use reflexive verbs to talk about daily routines; and
• Use more advanced word order to express your ideas.