Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

GER 211A is a second-year level course designed for students who wish to improve their ability to converse in German. Students will have the opportunity to practice the structures and vocabulary they have worked with in their first- and second-year German courses. This is a three-credit transferable course, and it counts as an elective toward associate degrees.

The student:

• communicates using advanced interactions in predictable and non-predictable settings and uses more advanced vocabulary, the case systems, present tense, future tense and past tense forms

• applies language-learning skills to various real-life situations

• recognizes and continues to appreciate linguistic and cultural diversity within the German-speaking world

Students may be assessed by any combination of the following:

1. Active participation in class in the target language

2. Short individual oral presentations

3. Short frequent contextual written tasks

4. In-class, interactive student role plays with a partner or in small groups

5. Oral interviews with instructor

Include all or some of the following:

1. Leisure time

2. Communication

3. Germany in the 21st century and historical perspectives

Competencies and skills:In a conversational setting the student will talk about him- or herself and the outside world using a variety of grammatical structures, which may include, but are not limited to, the following. The student will:     

1. Use modal verbs to express desires, skills, needs and wants

2. Use present, future, and past tenses to talk about past and future concepts

3. Use conjunctions to form complex sentences

4. Use relative clauses in descriptions and adding information to discussions

5. Use word order of time, manner, place to describe plans and other situations

6. Use negation forms correctly

7. Use “zu” expressions to talk about complex ideas