Was isst du gern?
März 2004
Studenten und Studentinnen!
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Homework Answers.
What a class today! There were so many questions about the workbook exercises that I decided to post the answers here. I got so involved with your questions that I also forgot to give you your grades. You'll get those on Friday. As I'll be at a conference in Fayetteville, Jennifer from the Language Lab, will proctor the vocabulary quiz, collect the homework ( Textbook Exercises J, O, and Q, pages 64-67, and Workbook Exercise G, page 31), and give you slips of paper with your grades. Partipation points were 25%, tests, and quizzes were 50%, and homework was 25%. You'll be able to see the areas that you need to work on. Some of you had great test scores, some of you had outstanding homework points (bonus points helped here), some of you had a lot of participation points, and some of you did well in all areas. Don't give up!
Textbook Answers.
Seite 61, Übung D.
For this exercise, you must know the gender of the noun. These prepositions require the accusative case and are referred to as the "accusative prepositions. Remember that the masculine form changes from "der" to "den." All other articles stay the same.
1. gegen die Wand.
2. um den Tisch
3. ohne die Bücher
4. durch die Tür
5. ohne den Stuhl
6. für die Kinderzimmer
7. gegen das Fenster
8. um die Ecke
Seite 61, Übung F.
On this exercise, you had to pay attention to verb changes and article forms. When you use the phrases "Was für ein...," you have to use the "ein" in the accusative case, so if the noun is masculine, you say, "Was für einen...." If is is neuter, you say, Was für ein...," and if it's feminine, you say, "Was für eine...." There are several possible answers for this sentence combining exercise.
1. Was für einen Rock brauchst du / braucht ihr / brauchen Sie?
2. Was für ein Hemd möchtest du / möchtet ihr / möchten Sie?
3,Was für eine Jacke suchst du / sucht ihr / suchen Sie?
4. Was für Schuhe (shoes) suchst du / brauchst du / möchtest du?
Seite 61, Übung H.
In this exercise, you are asking a question about the subject (Wer) or the object (Was--what or Wen--whom). Note: A verb that follows "wer" is in third person singular.
a. Wer hört den Nachbarn? (Vater) Wen hört Vater? (den Nachbarn)
b. Wer fragt Tante Martha? (Matthias) Wen fragt Matthias? (Tante Martha)
c. Wer kauft Obst? (Die Mutter) Was kauft die Mutter? (Obst)
d. Wer möchte einen Apfel? (Die Kinder)Was môchten die Kinder? (einen Apfel)
e. Wer versteht die Engländer nicht? (Helga und Britta)
Wen verstehen Helga und Britta nicht? (Die Engländer)
f. Wer lernt Deutsch. (Wir) Was lernen wir? (Deutsch)
g. Wer sucht eine Landkarte? (Ich) Was suche ich? (Was suchst du?) (die Landkarte)
Workbook Answers.
Seite 28, Übung A.
This exercise includes the singular form, the plural form, and the pronoun form for each noun.
1. der Schuh, die Schuhe, er
2. der Bruder, die Brüder,er
3. die Familie, die Familien, sie
4. das Wetter, es
5. die Butter, sie
6. das Land, die Länder, es
7. braun
8. grün
9. kosten
10. beginnen
11. trinken
12. bringen
Seite 28, Übung B.
When you choose the missing word, you have to consider what kind of word is missing. Is it a subject, a verb, an article, or an adjective? Determine the gender of the noun or the form of the verb you need if you are using an article or need a verb.
1. ein 2. Er 3. es 4. habe 5. Was 6. ein paar 7. etwas 8. ein 9. den 10. Er 11. gern 12. Stück
Seite 28-29, Übung C.
1. Wir gehen durch das Kaufhaus.
2. Es gibt Jacke und Mäntel. Sie sind billig.
3. Was hast du gegen den Mantel?
4. Ich brauche keinen Mantel und ich möchte keine Jacke.
5. Ich hätte gern eine Tasse Kaffee ohne Milch. Ich möchte eine Tasse Kaffee ohne Milch.
6. Was für einen Kuchen möchtest du? Käsekuchen, natürlich!
Seite 30, Übung E.
In this exercise, you had to pretend that you were shopping for ingredients in a salad. You had to fill in the missing information in the conversation. I decided to make a fruit salad, so my conversation using fruits.
Frau Bowles: Ich hätte gern ein Pfund Erdbeeren, bitte.
Verkäuferin: Wir haben heute keine Erdbeeren. Aber die Orangen sind frisch.
Frau Bowles: Nein, danke. Sie sind zu sauer. Haben Sie Melonen?
Seite 30-31, Übung F.
For this exercise, you had to read the advertisement and fill in the missing information from the ads.
1. Frischwurst und Leberwurst 2. 100 3. Brot 4. kostet 5. Frischkäse und Gouda 6. Holland (Die Niederländer) 7. Fleisch 8. ein 9. kostet 10. Flasche
Negation in German.
Kein? Nein? Nicht? Haben Sie die Hände über den Kopf schon zusammenschlagen? (Not any? No? Not? Have you already thrown up your hands in horror?)
Negation in German is a bit tricky. You've already learned the word for no, nein, and you've had the word for not any, kein, introduced to you this week, and now we are going to add another favorite, not, or nicht.
The problem with nicht, or should I say, the fun with nicht, is that it can be put in several places unlike the English not, which is almost always before or after the verb. For that reason, I want to give you a few guidelines that might help you find a nice home for nicht in the German sentence according to Schaum's Outline of German Grammar, 3rd edition.
1. Nicht always follows the conjugated verb.
For example: Sie fragt. Sie fragt nicht.
2. Nicht always follows noun objects (direct object).
For example: Wir besuchen meinen Vater. Wir besuchen meinen Vater nicht.
3. Nicht always follows adverbs of definite time.
For example: Er kauft heute. Er kauft heute nicht.
On the other hand, nicht precedes predicate adjectives and nouns (these words come after the verb to be).
For example: Er ist krank. Er ist nicht krank.
Frau Bowles ist meine Lehrerin. Frau Bowles ist nicht deine Lehrerin.
Nicht precedes adverbs of place or prepositional phrases.
For example: Ich wohne hier. Ich wohne nicht hier.
Wir gehen durch die Tür. Wir gehen nicht durch die Tür.
There are many other rules for the placement of nicht in a German sentence, but for now, we will learn the ones that will be useful to you.
Chapter Two has a lot of vocabulary and grammar points to study, so let's talk a little bit about the grammar. We've already mentioned the subject case (nominative) and the direct object case (accusative) and how the articles, a, an, and the, ein, eine, der, die, das, die,) are used to indicate which case is being used in the sentence.
If we look at the sentence The boy asks the father, the subject of the sentence is the boy because he is doing something. What is he doing? He is asking the father, so the verb is the action, asks. But what function does the father have? The father receives the action of being asked. Whom did the boy ask? His father. Therefore, the father is the direct object. In German, we know what cases the boy and the father are in because of the spelling of the articles. The boy is in the subject case because the is spelled d-e-r. The father is in the object case because the is spelled d-e-n. We then have the sentence Der Junge fragt den Vater.
Another way the accusative is used in German is after certain linking words, the prepositions durch, für, gegen, ohne, um. Therefore, the article and noun that follows one of the these words also changes. For example, without a father, in German would be ohne einen Vater.
A few nouns in German are called the n-nouns because they add an "n" or "en" to the word in the singular and plural in all cases except the subject or nominative case. These nouns include der Franzose, der Herr, der Junge, der Mensch, der Nachbar, and der Student.
Please feel free to ask a lot of questions about these points, and don't forget to practice, practice, practice.
Lerngruppe
Studygroup.
Mario Marcuri has organized another study group for Wednesdays at 12:30 in the library. Look at the study room roster to find where this group will meet. Thanks, Mario.
Brady and Lindsey have formed a study group and meet on Thursdays at 5:30 in the library. Thanks, Brady, for organizing this.
den 01. März bis
den 10. März.
OnMondaywe will discuss the accusative case and practice using it. On Wednesday, we'll talk about sentence structure, and on Friday, you'll have a vocabulary quiz.
Hausaufgabe.
Homework.
Mittwoch, den 03.
¤ Zum Lesen und Üben: Seiten 63-67.
To read and practice: Pages 63-67.
¤ Schriftliche Arbeit: Übungen D, F, und H Seite 61, und Arbeitsheft, Seiten 27-31.
Written work: Exercises D, F, and H, page 61, and the Workbook, pages 27-31.
Freitag, den 05.
¤ Zum Lesen und Üben: Seiten 68-70.
To read and practice: Pages 68-70.
¤ Schriftliche Arbeit: Übungen J, Seite 64, O, Seite 65, und Q, Seite 67.
Written work: Exercises J, page 64, O, page 65, and Q, page 67.
¤ Wortschatzquiz: Seiten 53-54.
Vocabulary Quiz: Pages 53-54.
Montag, den 08.
¤ Zum Lesen und Üben: Seiten 71-72.
To read and practice: Pages 71-72.
¤ Textarbeit: Übungen A-B Seite 71 und Hören Sie zu, Seite 72.
Textbook work: Exercises A-B, page 71, and Listening, page 72.
Mittwoch, den 10.
¤ Prüfung: Kapitel 2.
Test: Chapter 2.
Don't forget that you can practice the vocabulary at American Association of Teachers of German website. Play around with the exercises and see how you like it.
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