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TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and HANDOUT: THE MODAL VERBS MÖCHTEN AND KÖNNEN The next thing to pay attention to is verb placement. When there is a modal verb in a sentence, it is the conjugated verb (e.g. kann or möchte), and the other verb is the infinitive (with the -en ending) form, which goes at the very end of the sentence: ÜBUNGEN MIT ADJEKTIVENDUNGENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Übungen mit Adjektivendungen: A. Frage 1: Artikel? These nouns have no articles before them, so the answer to question 1 is ‘no’. HANDOUT UND ÜBUNGEN: WO- UND DA-KOMPOSITA Wo-Compounds. Wo-compounds are used in questions when asking about the object of the preposition ('for what', 'about what', etc.). Wo does not mean 'where' in these compounds; instead, in English we use 'what' in these questions. Wo-compounds follow the same rules as da-compounds, in particular the difference between people and things. ARBEITSBLATT: WORTSTELLUNG MIT KONJUNKTIONENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE B. Sätze kombinieren. Machen Sie einen Satz aus den zwei Sätzen. Benutzen Sie die Konjunktion in Klammern. (These are all subordinating conjunctions, meaning you will need to move the verb!) ARBEITSBLATT: KONJUNKTIV MIT WÜRDETRANSLATE THIS PAGE Worksheet on German subjunctive and conditional (Konjunktiv II) mood using the helping verb wuerde. ARBEITSBLATT: BUNDESLÄNDER UND DEUTSCHE GESCHICHTETRANSLATE THIS PAGE Im Jahre 1918 begann in Deutschland die Weimarer _____. Zum ersten Mal war Deutschland eine Demokratie. Das Parlament hieß damals (=back then) der Reichstag, aber heute heißt das deutsche Parlament der _____. Die _____ von dieser Republik war Berlin. NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARWRITINGGERMAN 101LEARNMISCELLANEOUSNANCY THULEEN Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and HANDOUT: THE MODAL VERBS MÖCHTEN AND KÖNNEN The next thing to pay attention to is verb placement. When there is a modal verb in a sentence, it is the conjugated verb (e.g. kann or möchte), and the other verb is the infinitive (with the -en ending) form, which goes at the very end of the sentence: ÜBUNGEN MIT ADJEKTIVENDUNGENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Übungen mit Adjektivendungen: A. Frage 1: Artikel? These nouns have no articles before them, so the answer to question 1 is ‘no’. HANDOUT UND ÜBUNGEN: WO- UND DA-KOMPOSITA Wo-Compounds. Wo-compounds are used in questions when asking about the object of the preposition ('for what', 'about what', etc.). Wo does not mean 'where' in these compounds; instead, in English we use 'what' in these questions. Wo-compounds follow the same rules as da-compounds, in particular the difference between people and things. ARBEITSBLATT: WORTSTELLUNG MIT KONJUNKTIONENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE B. Sätze kombinieren. Machen Sie einen Satz aus den zwei Sätzen. Benutzen Sie die Konjunktion in Klammern. (These are all subordinating conjunctions, meaning you will need to move the verb!) ARBEITSBLATT: KONJUNKTIV MIT WÜRDETRANSLATE THIS PAGE Worksheet on German subjunctive and conditional (Konjunktiv II) mood using the helping verb wuerde. ARBEITSBLATT: BUNDESLÄNDER UND DEUTSCHE GESCHICHTETRANSLATE THIS PAGE Im Jahre 1918 begann in Deutschland die Weimarer _____. Zum ersten Mal war Deutschland eine Demokratie. Das Parlament hieß damals (=back then) der Reichstag, aber heute heißt das deutsche Parlament der _____. Die _____ von dieser Republik war Berlin. PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. PRÜFE DICH: RELATIVPRONOMEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Relativpronomen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for relative pronouns. You simply type or choose the correct word (pronoun), andHANDOUT: DAS PASSIV
Handout: Das Passiv. The Passive Voice in English. Like German, English has both an active and a passive voice. In the normal active voice, the subject of the sentence acts upon or interacts with an object: She sees him. Both German and English offer an alternative verb structure, the passive voice, in which the subject of thesentence receives
HANDOUT: IMPERATIVES Handout: Imperatives: 1. Formal Command This is the imperative that we learned in Chapter One, the Sie-command. When you address one OR several people in a formal manner, you must use this form. The verb takes the -en ending of the Sie form, and the pronoun Sie is always placed immediately after the verb, exactly as in an interrogativesentence.
HANDOUT: NEGATION WITH NICHT AND KEIN Worksheet used in teaching German to undergraduates. If you’re negating the entire idea of the sentence, or the verb itself, then nicht should go as far toward the end as possible. There are some elements of the sentence -- verb participles, separable prefixes, and infinitives -- that will take priority over nicht, so in more complex sentences nicht may not be at the very end, but in basic HANDOUT: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN (Articles are words like der, die, das, ein, mein, unser, dieser, jeder, etc.): If NO (if there is no article): add the ending that would occur on a der-word for that noun. For instance: Deutsches Bier schmeckt gut. (it would be dies es Bier, so we add -es to deutsch): Ich trinke kalten Kaffee gern. (it would be dies en Kaffee, so we add -en to kalt): If YES (if there is an article already HANDOUT: DER GENITIV The formation of the article in the genitive is fairly simple, as there are only two different endings (-es for masculine and neuter, -er for feminine and plural).However, the genitive case is unusual in German because it adds an ending not only to the articles, but to masculine and neuter nouns as well. PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. SCHREIBPROJEKT 1: STELLEN SIE SICH VOR! Schreibprojekt 1: Stellen Sie sich vor! This is your first writing assignment, so don’t worry, we know you can’t say very much yet! Still, we think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how much you can say after only two weeks of German. SCHREIBPROJEKT 5: EINE REISE (KLASSENSCHREIBEN) Schreibprojekt 5: Eine Reise (Klassenschreiben) Describe a vacation or trip that you took. The trip can be one where things went really well and you had a great time, or it can be one where things went horribly and you had problems. NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARVIDEOSDEUTSCH 226LYRICSMISCELLANEOUSACTIVITIES Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. HANDOUT: IMPERATIVES Handout: Imperatives: 1. Formal Command This is the imperative that we learned in Chapter One, the Sie-command. When you address one OR several people in a formal manner, you must use this form. The verb takes the -en ending of the Sie form, and the pronoun Sie is always placed immediately after the verb, exactly as in an interrogativesentence.
PRÜFE DICH: PRÄTERITUM SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Präteritum Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for the preterite (simple or narrative past) tense forms of common German verbs. BRAHMS' GERMAN REQUIEM: HISTORY AND CRITICISM The German Requiem is a work of unusual significance and great mastery. It seems to us one of the ripest fruits to have emerged from the style of the late Beethoven in the field of sacred music. Since the masses for the dead and mourning cantatas of our classical composers the shadow of death and the seriousness of loss have scarcely been presented in music with such power. HANDOUT UND ÜBUNGEN: WO- UND DA-KOMPOSITA Wo-Compounds. Wo-compounds are used in questions when asking about the object of the preposition ('for what', 'about what', etc.). Wo does not mean 'where' in these compounds; instead, in English we use 'what' in these questions. Wo-compounds follow the same rules as da-compounds, in particular the difference between people and things. ARBEITSBLATT: WECHSELPRÄPOSITIONEN 1 zwischen. These prepositions take either the accusative or the the dative case. 1. Use accusative if there is a significant change of location/position. In other words, if the action has moved from one place to a different place, or a specific "border" has been crossed.2.
NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARVIDEOSDEUTSCH 226LYRICSMISCELLANEOUSACTIVITIES Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. HANDOUT: IMPERATIVES Handout: Imperatives: 1. Formal Command This is the imperative that we learned in Chapter One, the Sie-command. When you address one OR several people in a formal manner, you must use this form. The verb takes the -en ending of the Sie form, and the pronoun Sie is always placed immediately after the verb, exactly as in an interrogativesentence.
PRÜFE DICH: PRÄTERITUM SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Präteritum Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for the preterite (simple or narrative past) tense forms of common German verbs. BRAHMS' GERMAN REQUIEM: HISTORY AND CRITICISM The German Requiem is a work of unusual significance and great mastery. It seems to us one of the ripest fruits to have emerged from the style of the late Beethoven in the field of sacred music. Since the masses for the dead and mourning cantatas of our classical composers the shadow of death and the seriousness of loss have scarcely been presented in music with such power. HANDOUT UND ÜBUNGEN: WO- UND DA-KOMPOSITA Wo-Compounds. Wo-compounds are used in questions when asking about the object of the preposition ('for what', 'about what', etc.). Wo does not mean 'where' in these compounds; instead, in English we use 'what' in these questions. Wo-compounds follow the same rules as da-compounds, in particular the difference between people and things. ARBEITSBLATT: WECHSELPRÄPOSITIONEN 1 zwischen. These prepositions take either the accusative or the the dative case. 1. Use accusative if there is a significant change of location/position. In other words, if the action has moved from one place to a different place, or a specific "border" has been crossed.2.
GERMAN VERB CLASSES
Abtönung, or "qualitative gradation," is a result of the changes that occurred in Indo-European as this language supposedly developed, and then proceeded to lose, a pitch accent.In this phenomenon, when a vowel had a secondary pitch accent, in IE, it would change from, for example, e,e to o,o in Gmc. This was a relatively narrow change, since the only vowels that were truly affected by it HANDOUT: THE MODAL VERBS MÖCHTEN AND KÖNNEN The next thing to pay attention to is verb placement. When there is a modal verb in a sentence, it is the conjugated verb (e.g. kann or möchte), and the other verb is the infinitive (with the -en ending) form, which goes at the very end of the sentence: DEUTSCH 101 HANDOUT: THE PERFEKT TENSE Deutsch 101 Handout: The Perfekt Tense: We’re finally going to learn to talk about past events in German! You’re about to learn what’s called the ‘present perfect’ tense in English, or Das Perfekt in German. (Don’t be confused by the word ‘present’ -- this is a past tense that talks about past events -- it’s the English terminology that’s confusing.)HANDOUT: DAS PASSIV
Handout: Das Passiv. The Passive Voice in English. Like German, English has both an active and a passive voice. In the normal active voice, the subject of the sentence acts upon or interacts with an object: She sees him. Both German and English offer an alternative verb structure, the passive voice, in which the subject of thesentence receives
HANDOUT: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN (Articles are words like der, die, das, ein, mein, unser, dieser, jeder, etc.): If NO (if there is no article): add the ending that would occur on a der-word for that noun. For instance: Deutsches Bier schmeckt gut. (it would be dies es Bier, so we add -es to deutsch): Ich trinke kalten Kaffee gern. (it would be dies en Kaffee, so we add -en to kalt): If YES (if there is an article already HANDOUT: DER GENITIV The formation of the article in the genitive is fairly simple, as there are only two different endings (-es for masculine and neuter, -er for feminine and plural).However, the genitive case is unusual in German because it adds an ending not only to the articles, but to masculine and neuter nouns as well. PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. SCHREIBPROJEKT 5: EINE REISE (KLASSENSCHREIBEN) Schreibprojekt 5: Eine Reise (Klassenschreiben) Describe a vacation or trip that you took. The trip can be one where things went really well and you had a great time, or it can be one where things went horribly and you had problems. ARTICLE COMPARISON: CEZANNE In their writings on Cezanne, Meyer Schapiro and Richard Schiff demonstrate clearly the difference between two schools of thought: Schapiro, writing in 1968, embarks on an extremely subjective and psychoanalytical critique of the subject matter of Cezanne's still-lifes, while Schiff, in 1984, follows the more modern trendtoward formal
DATIVE VERBS AND DATIVE ADJECTIVES Dative Verbs and Dative Adjectives Normally, in both German and English, when you have a subject and only one object in a sentence, the object is the 'direct object' and in the accusative case. NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARVIDEOSDEUTSCH 226LYRICSMISCELLANEOUSACTIVITIES Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and HANDOUT: NEGATION WITH NICHT AND KEIN Worksheet used in teaching German to undergraduates. If you’re negating the entire idea of the sentence, or the verb itself, then nicht should go as far toward the end as possible. There are some elements of the sentence -- verb participles, separable prefixes, and infinitives -- that will take priority over nicht, so in more complex sentences nicht may not be at the very end, but in basic PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. ÜBUNGEN: VERBEN, GERN, NEGATION, WORTSTELLUNGTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Übungen: Verben, Gern, Negation, Wortstellung: A. Verben. Choose an appropriate verb from the list, and fill in the correctly conjugatedform.
HANDOUT: THE MODAL VERBS MÖCHTEN AND KÖNNEN The next thing to pay attention to is verb placement. When there is a modal verb in a sentence, it is the conjugated verb (e.g. kann or möchte), and the other verb is the infinitive (with the -en ending) form, which goes at the very end of the sentence: BRAHMS' GERMAN REQUIEM: HISTORY AND CRITICISM The German Requiem is a work of unusual significance and great mastery. It seems to us one of the ripest fruits to have emerged from the style of the late Beethoven in the field of sacred music. Since the masses for the dead and mourning cantatas of our classical composers the shadow of death and the seriousness of loss have scarcely been presented in music with such power. ARBEITSBLATT: BUNDESLÄNDER UND DEUTSCHE GESCHICHTETRANSLATE THIS PAGE Im Jahre 1918 begann in Deutschland die Weimarer _____. Zum ersten Mal war Deutschland eine Demokratie. Das Parlament hieß damals (=back then) der Reichstag, aber heute heißt das deutsche Parlament der _____. Die _____ von dieser Republik war Berlin. NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARVIDEOSDEUTSCH 226LYRICSMISCELLANEOUSACTIVITIES Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and HANDOUT: NEGATION WITH NICHT AND KEIN Worksheet used in teaching German to undergraduates. If you’re negating the entire idea of the sentence, or the verb itself, then nicht should go as far toward the end as possible. There are some elements of the sentence -- verb participles, separable prefixes, and infinitives -- that will take priority over nicht, so in more complex sentences nicht may not be at the very end, but in basic PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. ÜBUNGEN: VERBEN, GERN, NEGATION, WORTSTELLUNGTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Übungen: Verben, Gern, Negation, Wortstellung: A. Verben. Choose an appropriate verb from the list, and fill in the correctly conjugatedform.
HANDOUT: THE MODAL VERBS MÖCHTEN AND KÖNNEN The next thing to pay attention to is verb placement. When there is a modal verb in a sentence, it is the conjugated verb (e.g. kann or möchte), and the other verb is the infinitive (with the -en ending) form, which goes at the very end of the sentence: BRAHMS' GERMAN REQUIEM: HISTORY AND CRITICISM The German Requiem is a work of unusual significance and great mastery. It seems to us one of the ripest fruits to have emerged from the style of the late Beethoven in the field of sacred music. Since the masses for the dead and mourning cantatas of our classical composers the shadow of death and the seriousness of loss have scarcely been presented in music with such power. ARBEITSBLATT: BUNDESLÄNDER UND DEUTSCHE GESCHICHTETRANSLATE THIS PAGE Im Jahre 1918 begann in Deutschland die Weimarer _____. Zum ersten Mal war Deutschland eine Demokratie. Das Parlament hieß damals (=back then) der Reichstag, aber heute heißt das deutsche Parlament der _____. Die _____ von dieser Republik war Berlin. ÜBUNGEN: VERBEN, GERN, NEGATION, WORTSTELLUNGTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Übungen: Verben, Gern, Negation, Wortstellung: A. Verben. Choose an appropriate verb from the list, and fill in the correctly conjugatedform.
DEUTSCH 101 HANDOUT: THE PERFEKT TENSE Deutsch 101 Handout: The Perfekt Tense: We’re finally going to learn to talk about past events in German! You’re about to learn what’s called the ‘present perfect’ tense in English, or Das Perfekt in German. (Don’t be confused by the word ‘present’ -- this is a past tense that talks about past events -- it’s the English terminology that’s confusing.) PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. HANDOUT: THE MODAL VERBS MÖCHTEN AND KÖNNEN The next thing to pay attention to is verb placement. When there is a modal verb in a sentence, it is the conjugated verb (e.g. kann or möchte), and the other verb is the infinitive (with the -en ending) form, which goes at the very end of the sentence: ARBEITSBLATT: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN 1TRANSLATE THIS PAGE Worksheet on German adjective endings and declination. H. Schon genug? If you’ve had enough practice, feel free to stop here. But if you have time and enough stamina, try filling in the endings in the following paragraphs -- on articles as well as adjectives. ÜBUNG: VERBEN MIT TRENNBAREN PRÄFIXENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Übung: Verben mit trennbaren Präfixen: A. Was hat Anna heute vor? Write the sentences using the elements given. Pay attention to wordorder!
ARBEITSBLATT: WORTSTELLUNG MIT KONJUNKTIONENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE B. Sätze kombinieren. Machen Sie einen Satz aus den zwei Sätzen. Benutzen Sie die Konjunktion in Klammern. (These are all subordinating conjunctions, meaning you will need to move the verb!) ARBEITSBLATT: WECHSELPRÄPOSITIONEN 1 zwischen. These prepositions take either the accusative or the the dative case. 1. Use accusative if there is a significant change of location/position. In other words, if the action has moved from one place to a different place, or a specific "border" has been crossed.2.
ARBEITSBLATT: DAS PRÄTERITUM 1TRANSLATE THIS PAGE ANSWER KEY: Arbeitsblatt: Das Präteritum 1: A. Wichtige Verbformen. Füllen Sie die Tabelle mit den richtigen Formen der Verben ein. VERBTABELLE: DIE SIEBEN KLASSEN DER STARKEN VERBENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Verbtabelle: Die sieben Klassen der starken Verben: Starke Verben: Im Althochdeutschen gab es sieben Klassen von den starken Verben. Im heutigen Deutsch kann man viele übriggebliebene Elemente von diesen sieben Klassen noch erkennen, und das kann einem helfen, die Vergangenheitsformen der starken Verben auswendig zu lernen. NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARVIDEOSDEUTSCH 226LYRICSMISCELLANEOUSACTIVITIES Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. HANDOUT: IMPERATIVES Handout: Imperatives: 1. Formal Command This is the imperative that we learned in Chapter One, the Sie-command. When you address one OR several people in a formal manner, you must use this form. The verb takes the -en ending of the Sie form, and the pronoun Sie is always placed immediately after the verb, exactly as in an interrogativesentence.
PRÜFE DICH: PRÄTERITUM SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Präteritum Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for the preterite (simple or narrative past) tense forms of common German verbs. BRAHMS' GERMAN REQUIEM: HISTORY AND CRITICISM The German Requiem is a work of unusual significance and great mastery. It seems to us one of the ripest fruits to have emerged from the style of the late Beethoven in the field of sacred music. Since the masses for the dead and mourning cantatas of our classical composers the shadow of death and the seriousness of loss have scarcely been presented in music with such power. HANDOUT UND ÜBUNGEN: WO- UND DA-KOMPOSITA Wo-Compounds. Wo-compounds are used in questions when asking about the object of the preposition ('for what', 'about what', etc.). Wo does not mean 'where' in these compounds; instead, in English we use 'what' in these questions. Wo-compounds follow the same rules as da-compounds, in particular the difference between people and things. NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARVIDEOSDEUTSCH 226LYRICSMISCELLANEOUSACTIVITIES Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. HANDOUT: IMPERATIVES Handout: Imperatives: 1. Formal Command This is the imperative that we learned in Chapter One, the Sie-command. When you address one OR several people in a formal manner, you must use this form. The verb takes the -en ending of the Sie form, and the pronoun Sie is always placed immediately after the verb, exactly as in an interrogativesentence.
PRÜFE DICH: PRÄTERITUM SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Präteritum Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for the preterite (simple or narrative past) tense forms of common German verbs. BRAHMS' GERMAN REQUIEM: HISTORY AND CRITICISM The German Requiem is a work of unusual significance and great mastery. It seems to us one of the ripest fruits to have emerged from the style of the late Beethoven in the field of sacred music. Since the masses for the dead and mourning cantatas of our classical composers the shadow of death and the seriousness of loss have scarcely been presented in music with such power. HANDOUT UND ÜBUNGEN: WO- UND DA-KOMPOSITA Wo-Compounds. Wo-compounds are used in questions when asking about the object of the preposition ('for what', 'about what', etc.). Wo does not mean 'where' in these compounds; instead, in English we use 'what' in these questions. Wo-compounds follow the same rules as da-compounds, in particular the difference between people and things. TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections.HANDOUT: DAS PASSIV
Handout: Das Passiv. The Passive Voice in English. Like German, English has both an active and a passive voice. In the normal active voice, the subject of the sentence acts upon or interacts with an object: She sees him. Both German and English offer an alternative verb structure, the passive voice, in which the subject of thesentence receives
GERMAN VERB CLASSES
Abtönung, or "qualitative gradation," is a result of the changes that occurred in Indo-European as this language supposedly developed, and then proceeded to lose, a pitch accent.In this phenomenon, when a vowel had a secondary pitch accent, in IE, it would change from, for example, e,e to o,o in Gmc. This was a relatively narrow change, since the only vowels that were truly affected by it DEUTSCH 101 HANDOUT: THE PERFEKT TENSE Deutsch 101 Handout: The Perfekt Tense: We’re finally going to learn to talk about past events in German! You’re about to learn what’s called the ‘present perfect’ tense in English, or Das Perfekt in German. (Don’t be confused by the word ‘present’ -- this is a past tense that talks about past events -- it’s the English terminology that’s confusing.) HANDOUT: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN (Articles are words like der, die, das, ein, mein, unser, dieser, jeder, etc.): If NO (if there is no article): add the ending that would occur on a der-word for that noun. For instance: Deutsches Bier schmeckt gut. (it would be dies es Bier, so we add -es to deutsch): Ich trinke kalten Kaffee gern. (it would be dies en Kaffee, so we add -en to kalt): If YES (if there is an article already ÜBUNG: VERBEN MIT TRENNBAREN PRÄFIXENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Übung: Verben mit trennbaren Präfixen: A. Was hat Anna heute vor? Write the sentences using the elements given. Pay attention to wordorder!
GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD, SELECTED LESSON PLANS The major characteristic of the grammar-translation method is, precisely as its name suggests, a focus on learning the rules of grammar and their application in translation passages from one language into the other. Vocabulary in the target language is learned through direct translation from the native language, e.g. with vocabulary tests such as: ARBEITSBLATT: WECHSELPRÄPOSITIONEN 1 zwischen. These prepositions take either the accusative or the the dative case. 1. Use accusative if there is a significant change of location/position. In other words, if the action has moved from one place to a different place, or a specific "border" has been crossed.2.
ARBEITSBLATT: DAS PRÄTERITUM 1TRANSLATE THIS PAGE ANSWER KEY: Arbeitsblatt: Das Präteritum 1: A. Wichtige Verbformen. Füllen Sie die Tabelle mit den richtigen Formen der Verben ein. DATIVE VERBS AND DATIVE ADJECTIVES Dative Verbs and Dative Adjectives Normally, in both German and English, when you have a subject and only one object in a sentence, the object is the 'direct object' and in the accusative case. NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARVIDEOSDEUTSCH 226LYRICSMISCELLANEOUSACTIVITIES Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. HANDOUT: IMPERATIVES Handout: Imperatives: 1. Formal Command This is the imperative that we learned in Chapter One, the Sie-command. When you address one OR several people in a formal manner, you must use this form. The verb takes the -en ending of the Sie form, and the pronoun Sie is always placed immediately after the verb, exactly as in an interrogativesentence.
PRÜFE DICH: PRÄTERITUM SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Präteritum Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for the preterite (simple or narrative past) tense forms of common German verbs. BRAHMS' GERMAN REQUIEM: HISTORY AND CRITICISM The German Requiem is a work of unusual significance and great mastery. It seems to us one of the ripest fruits to have emerged from the style of the late Beethoven in the field of sacred music. Since the masses for the dead and mourning cantatas of our classical composers the shadow of death and the seriousness of loss have scarcely been presented in music with such power. HANDOUT UND ÜBUNGEN: WO- UND DA-KOMPOSITA Wo-Compounds. Wo-compounds are used in questions when asking about the object of the preposition ('for what', 'about what', etc.). Wo does not mean 'where' in these compounds; instead, in English we use 'what' in these questions. Wo-compounds follow the same rules as da-compounds, in particular the difference between people and things. NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARVIDEOSDEUTSCH 226LYRICSMISCELLANEOUSACTIVITIES Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. HANDOUT: IMPERATIVES Handout: Imperatives: 1. Formal Command This is the imperative that we learned in Chapter One, the Sie-command. When you address one OR several people in a formal manner, you must use this form. The verb takes the -en ending of the Sie form, and the pronoun Sie is always placed immediately after the verb, exactly as in an interrogativesentence.
PRÜFE DICH: PRÄTERITUM SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Präteritum Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for the preterite (simple or narrative past) tense forms of common German verbs. BRAHMS' GERMAN REQUIEM: HISTORY AND CRITICISM The German Requiem is a work of unusual significance and great mastery. It seems to us one of the ripest fruits to have emerged from the style of the late Beethoven in the field of sacred music. Since the masses for the dead and mourning cantatas of our classical composers the shadow of death and the seriousness of loss have scarcely been presented in music with such power. HANDOUT UND ÜBUNGEN: WO- UND DA-KOMPOSITA Wo-Compounds. Wo-compounds are used in questions when asking about the object of the preposition ('for what', 'about what', etc.). Wo does not mean 'where' in these compounds; instead, in English we use 'what' in these questions. Wo-compounds follow the same rules as da-compounds, in particular the difference between people and things. TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections.HANDOUT: DAS PASSIV
Handout: Das Passiv. The Passive Voice in English. Like German, English has both an active and a passive voice. In the normal active voice, the subject of the sentence acts upon or interacts with an object: She sees him. Both German and English offer an alternative verb structure, the passive voice, in which the subject of thesentence receives
GERMAN VERB CLASSES
Abtönung, or "qualitative gradation," is a result of the changes that occurred in Indo-European as this language supposedly developed, and then proceeded to lose, a pitch accent.In this phenomenon, when a vowel had a secondary pitch accent, in IE, it would change from, for example, e,e to o,o in Gmc. This was a relatively narrow change, since the only vowels that were truly affected by it DEUTSCH 101 HANDOUT: THE PERFEKT TENSE Deutsch 101 Handout: The Perfekt Tense: We’re finally going to learn to talk about past events in German! You’re about to learn what’s called the ‘present perfect’ tense in English, or Das Perfekt in German. (Don’t be confused by the word ‘present’ -- this is a past tense that talks about past events -- it’s the English terminology that’s confusing.) HANDOUT: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN (Articles are words like der, die, das, ein, mein, unser, dieser, jeder, etc.): If NO (if there is no article): add the ending that would occur on a der-word for that noun. For instance: Deutsches Bier schmeckt gut. (it would be dies es Bier, so we add -es to deutsch): Ich trinke kalten Kaffee gern. (it would be dies en Kaffee, so we add -en to kalt): If YES (if there is an article already ÜBUNG: VERBEN MIT TRENNBAREN PRÄFIXENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Übung: Verben mit trennbaren Präfixen: A. Was hat Anna heute vor? Write the sentences using the elements given. Pay attention to wordorder!
GRAMMAR-TRANSLATION METHOD, SELECTED LESSON PLANS The major characteristic of the grammar-translation method is, precisely as its name suggests, a focus on learning the rules of grammar and their application in translation passages from one language into the other. Vocabulary in the target language is learned through direct translation from the native language, e.g. with vocabulary tests such as: ARBEITSBLATT: WECHSELPRÄPOSITIONEN 1 zwischen. These prepositions take either the accusative or the the dative case. 1. Use accusative if there is a significant change of location/position. In other words, if the action has moved from one place to a different place, or a specific "border" has been crossed.2.
ARBEITSBLATT: DAS PRÄTERITUM 1TRANSLATE THIS PAGE ANSWER KEY: Arbeitsblatt: Das Präteritum 1: A. Wichtige Verbformen. Füllen Sie die Tabelle mit den richtigen Formen der Verben ein. DATIVE VERBS AND DATIVE ADJECTIVES Dative Verbs and Dative Adjectives Normally, in both German and English, when you have a subject and only one object in a sentence, the object is the 'direct object' and in the accusative case. NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARWRITINGGERMAN 101LEARNMISCELLANEOUSNANCY THULEEN Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. HANDOUT: DAS PASSIVPASSIV DEUTSCHNANCY THULEEN GRAMMARNANCY THULEEN ACCUSATIVENANCY THULEEN GERMAN Handout: Das Passiv. The Passive Voice in English. Like German, English has both an active and a passive voice. In the normal active voice, the subject of the sentence acts upon or interacts with an object: She sees him. Both German and English offer an alternative verb structure, the passive voice, in which the subject of thesentence receives
DEUTSCH 101 HANDOUT: THE PERFEKT TENSE Deutsch 101 Handout: The Perfekt Tense: We’re finally going to learn to talk about past events in German! You’re about to learn what’s called the ‘present perfect’ tense in English, or Das Perfekt in German. (Don’t be confused by the word ‘present’ -- this is a past tense that talks about past events -- it’s the English terminology that’s confusing.) HANDOUT: KASUS: NOMINATIV UND AKKUSATIV The woman sees the girl. The woman is the subject and is nominative.: the girl is the direct object and is accusative.: The girl sees the woman. The girl is the subject and is nominative.: the woman is the direct object and is accusative.: George W. Bush is the President. George W. Bush is the subject and is nominative.: the President is ALSO nominative because it follows “to be” (is). ARTICLE COMPARISON: CEZANNE In their writings on Cezanne, Meyer Schapiro and Richard Schiff demonstrate clearly the difference between two schools of thought: Schapiro, writing in 1968, embarks on an extremely subjective and psychoanalytical critique of the subject matter of Cezanne's still-lifes, while Schiff, in 1984, follows the more modern trendtoward formal
NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARWRITINGGERMAN 101LEARNMISCELLANEOUSNANCY THULEEN Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. HANDOUT: DAS PASSIVPASSIV DEUTSCHNANCY THULEEN GRAMMARNANCY THULEEN ACCUSATIVENANCY THULEEN GERMAN Handout: Das Passiv. The Passive Voice in English. Like German, English has both an active and a passive voice. In the normal active voice, the subject of the sentence acts upon or interacts with an object: She sees him. Both German and English offer an alternative verb structure, the passive voice, in which the subject of thesentence receives
DEUTSCH 101 HANDOUT: THE PERFEKT TENSE Deutsch 101 Handout: The Perfekt Tense: We’re finally going to learn to talk about past events in German! You’re about to learn what’s called the ‘present perfect’ tense in English, or Das Perfekt in German. (Don’t be confused by the word ‘present’ -- this is a past tense that talks about past events -- it’s the English terminology that’s confusing.) HANDOUT: KASUS: NOMINATIV UND AKKUSATIV The woman sees the girl. The woman is the subject and is nominative.: the girl is the direct object and is accusative.: The girl sees the woman. The girl is the subject and is nominative.: the woman is the direct object and is accusative.: George W. Bush is the President. George W. Bush is the subject and is nominative.: the President is ALSO nominative because it follows “to be” (is). ARTICLE COMPARISON: CEZANNE In their writings on Cezanne, Meyer Schapiro and Richard Schiff demonstrate clearly the difference between two schools of thought: Schapiro, writing in 1968, embarks on an extremely subjective and psychoanalytical critique of the subject matter of Cezanne's still-lifes, while Schiff, in 1984, follows the more modern trendtoward formal
STUDIES: NANCY THULEEN I'm currently employed as a Teaching Assistant here at the UW, although I have spent several semesters as a Lecturer as well, teaching higher-level classes. I've taught first through sixth-semester German courses, which at the higher levels involve quite a bit more than just language instruction. In addition, I had a one-year Fulbright Teaching PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. ESSAYS AND ARTICLES • AUFSÄTZE UND REFERATE Below you'll find a sampling of my coursework and the major papers I've written over the course of my studies, both as a graduate student in German Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and also as an undergraduate at Pomona College, California.Many of the papers are in English, but some are in German -- feel free to run them through a Google Translator to make them even more HANDOUT: USES OF WERDEN Handout: Uses of Werden: As you may have noticed, the verb werden can have many uses in German. You've now learned the four primary uses of werden, and hopefully you can distinguish between them.Let's review what we know. 1. Werden can be a main verb, not a helping verb.When it's used alone this way, it means "to become". HANDOUT: DER GENITIV The formation of the article in the genitive is fairly simple, as there are only two different endings (-es for masculine and neuter, -er for feminine and plural).However, the genitive case is unusual in German because it adds an ending not only to the articles, but to masculine and neuter nouns as well. HANDOUT: NEGATION WITH NICHT AND KEIN Worksheet used in teaching German to undergraduates. If you’re negating the entire idea of the sentence, or the verb itself, then nicht should go as far toward the end as possible. There are some elements of the sentence -- verb participles, separable prefixes, and infinitives -- that will take priority over nicht, so in more complex sentences nicht may not be at the very end, but in basic HANDOUT: KASUS: NOMINATIV UND AKKUSATIV The woman sees the girl. The woman is the subject and is nominative.: the girl is the direct object and is accusative.: The girl sees the woman. The girl is the subject and is nominative.: the woman is the direct object and is accusative.: George W. Bush is the President. George W. Bush is the subject and is nominative.: the President is ALSO nominative because it follows “to be” (is). STEFAN GEORGE AND ANTON WEBERN Anton Webern: Five Songs on Poems by Stefan George, Op. 4. Stefan George (1868-1933), perhaps the most prominent German Symbolist poet, is nonetheless not widely known outside of scholarly circles. A genial young poet, George developed a unique style which relied heavily on HANDOUT UND ÜBUNGEN: WO- UND DA-KOMPOSITA Wo-Compounds. Wo-compounds are used in questions when asking about the object of the preposition ('for what', 'about what', etc.). Wo does not mean 'where' in these compounds; instead, in English we use 'what' in these questions. Wo-compounds follow the same rules as da-compounds, in particular the difference between people and things. ÜBUNG: VERBEN MIT TRENNBAREN PRÄFIXENTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Übung: Verben mit trennbaren Präfixen: A. Was hat Anna heute vor? Write the sentences using the elements given. Pay attention to wordorder!
NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARWRITINGGERMAN 101LEARNMISCELLANEOUSNANCY THULEEN Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIEN Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. HANDOUT: DAS PASSIVPASSIV DEUTSCHNANCY THULEEN GRAMMARNANCY THULEEN ACCUSATIVENANCY THULEEN GERMAN Handout: Das Passiv. The Passive Voice in English. Like German, English has both an active and a passive voice. In the normal active voice, the subject of the sentence acts upon or interacts with an object: She sees him. Both German and English offer an alternative verb structure, the passive voice, in which the subject of thesentence receives
DEUTSCH 101 HANDOUT: THE PERFEKT TENSE Deutsch 101 Handout: The Perfekt Tense: We’re finally going to learn to talk about past events in German! You’re about to learn what’s called the ‘present perfect’ tense in English, or Das Perfekt in German. (Don’t be confused by the word ‘present’ -- this is a past tense that talks about past events -- it’s the English terminology that’s confusing.) HANDOUT: KASUS: NOMINATIV UND AKKUSATIV The woman sees the girl. The woman is the subject and is nominative.: the girl is the direct object and is accusative.: The girl sees the woman. The girl is the subject and is nominative.: the woman is the direct object and is accusative.: George W. Bush is the President. George W. Bush is the subject and is nominative.: the President is ALSO nominative because it follows “to be” (is). ARTICLE COMPARISON: CEZANNE In their writings on Cezanne, Meyer Schapiro and Richard Schiff demonstrate clearly the difference between two schools of thought: Schapiro, writing in 1968, embarks on an extremely subjective and psychoanalytical critique of the subject matter of Cezanne's still-lifes, while Schiff, in 1984, follows the more modern trendtoward formal
NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Hello and welcome. I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARWRITINGGERMAN 101LEARNMISCELLANEOUSNANCY THULEEN Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIEN Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. HANDOUT: DAS PASSIVPASSIV DEUTSCHNANCY THULEEN GRAMMARNANCY THULEEN ACCUSATIVENANCY THULEEN GERMAN Handout: Das Passiv. The Passive Voice in English. Like German, English has both an active and a passive voice. In the normal active voice, the subject of the sentence acts upon or interacts with an object: She sees him. Both German and English offer an alternative verb structure, the passive voice, in which the subject of thesentence receives
DEUTSCH 101 HANDOUT: THE PERFEKT TENSE Deutsch 101 Handout: The Perfekt Tense: We’re finally going to learn to talk about past events in German! You’re about to learn what’s called the ‘present perfect’ tense in English, or Das Perfekt in German. (Don’t be confused by the word ‘present’ -- this is a past tense that talks about past events -- it’s the English terminology that’s confusing.) HANDOUT: KASUS: NOMINATIV UND AKKUSATIV The woman sees the girl. The woman is the subject and is nominative.: the girl is the direct object and is accusative.: The girl sees the woman. The girl is the subject and is nominative.: the woman is the direct object and is accusative.: George W. Bush is the President. George W. Bush is the subject and is nominative.: the President is ALSO nominative because it follows “to be” (is). ARTICLE COMPARISON: CEZANNE In their writings on Cezanne, Meyer Schapiro and Richard Schiff demonstrate clearly the difference between two schools of thought: Schapiro, writing in 1968, embarks on an extremely subjective and psychoanalytical critique of the subject matter of Cezanne's still-lifes, while Schiff, in 1984, follows the more modern trendtoward formal
STUDIES: NANCY THULEEN I'm currently employed as a Teaching Assistant here at the UW, although I have spent several semesters as a Lecturer as well, teaching higher-level classes. I've taught first through sixth-semester German courses, which at the higher levels involve quite a bit more than just language instruction. In addition, I had a one-year Fulbright Teaching PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. ESSAYS AND ARTICLES • AUFSÄTZE UND REFERATE Below you'll find a sampling of my coursework and the major papers I've written over the course of my studies, both as a graduate student in German Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and also as an undergraduate at Pomona College, California.Many of the papers are in English, but some are in German -- feel free to run them through a Google Translator to make them even more HANDOUT: USES OF WERDEN Handout: Uses of Werden: As you may have noticed, the verb werden can have many uses in German. You've now learned the four primary uses of werden, and hopefully you can distinguish between them.Let's review what we know. 1. Werden can be a main verb, not a helping verb.When it's used alone this way, it means "to become". HANDOUT: DER GENITIV The formation of the article in the genitive is fairly simple, as there are only two different endings (-es for masculine and neuter, -er for feminine and plural).However, the genitive case is unusual in German because it adds an ending not only to the articles, but to masculine and neuter nouns as well. HANDOUT: NEGATION WITH NICHT AND KEIN Worksheet used in teaching German to undergraduates. If you’re negating the entire idea of the sentence, or the verb itself, then nicht should go as far toward the end as possible. There are some elements of the sentence -- verb participles, separable prefixes, and infinitives -- that will take priority over nicht, so in more complex sentences nicht may not be at the very end, but in basic HANDOUT: KASUS: NOMINATIV UND AKKUSATIV The woman sees the girl. The woman is the subject and is nominative.: the girl is the direct object and is accusative.: The girl sees the woman. The girl is the subject and is nominative.: the woman is the direct object and is accusative.: George W. Bush is the President. George W. Bush is the subject and is nominative.: the President is ALSO nominative because it follows “to be” (is). STEFAN GEORGE AND ANTON WEBERN Anton Webern: Five Songs on Poems by Stefan George, Op. 4. Stefan George (1868-1933), perhaps the most prominent German Symbolist poet, is nonetheless not widely known outside of scholarly circles. A genial young poet, George developed a unique style which relied heavily on HANDOUT UND ÜBUNGEN: WO- UND DA-KOMPOSITA Wo-Compounds. Wo-compounds are used in questions when asking about the object of the preposition ('for what', 'about what', etc.). Wo does not mean 'where' in these compounds; instead, in English we use 'what' in these questions. Wo-compounds follow the same rules as da-compounds, in particular the difference between people and things. ÜBUNG: VERBEN MIT TRENNBAREN PRÄFIXEN Übung: Verben mit trennbaren Präfixen: A. Was hat Anna heute vor? Write the sentences using the elements given. Pay attention to wordorder!
NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Many people land here after finding snippets of my writings in a search engine. My essays on German Literature (along with a few on other topics) are collected under the WRITE tab. The READ tab will take you to some information about my favorite authors and a list of the books I own. A major update is currently taking place under the TEACH tab, since I've found that many teachers and students TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARWRITINGGERMAN 101LEARNMISCELLANEOUSNANCY THULEEN Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIEN Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. DEUTSCH 101 HANDOUT: THE PERFEKT TENSE Deutsch 101 Handout: The Perfekt Tense: We’re finally going to learn to talk about past events in German! You’re about to learn what’s called the ‘present perfect’ tense in English, or Das Perfekt in German. (Don’t be confused by the word ‘present’ -- this is a past tense that talks about past events -- it’s the English terminology that’s confusing.) HANDOUT: DAS PASSIVPASSIV DEUTSCHNANCY THULEEN GRAMMARNANCY THULEEN ACCUSATIVENANCY THULEEN GERMAN Note: The preposition durch can be used when the active subject is an instrument (a thing or cause) of the action, rather than an initiator (person): Berlin wird durch eine Mauer geteilt. Of course durch takes the accusative, as always. And like the English "with," mit can be used to indicate a tool used to carry out the action: Die Tür wird mit einem Schlüssel geöffnet. HANDOUT: KASUS: NOMINATIV UND AKKUSATIV The woman sees the girl. The woman is the subject and is nominative.: the girl is the direct object and is accusative.: The girl sees the woman. The girl is the subject and is nominative.: the woman is the direct object and is accusative.: George W. Bush is the President. George W. Bush is the subject and is nominative.: the President is ALSO nominative because it follows “to be” (is). ARTICLE COMPARISON: CEZANNE Meyer Schapiro, "The Apples of Cezanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-life," in Schapiro, Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries (1978), pp. 1-38. Richard Schiff, "Cezanne's Practice," in Schiff, Cezanne and the End of Impressionism (1984), pp.199-219.
NANCY THULEENGERMAN 203TEACHINGLEARNPLAY Many people land here after finding snippets of my writings in a search engine. My essays on German Literature (along with a few on other topics) are collected under the WRITE tab. The READ tab will take you to some information about my favorite authors and a list of the books I own. A major update is currently taking place under the TEACH tab, since I've found that many teachers and students TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIENGRAMMARWRITINGGERMAN 101LEARNMISCELLANEOUSNANCY THULEEN Below you'll find some materials I've prepared over the last few years while teaching German to undergraduates here at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internetsites.
TEACHING MATERIALS • LEHRMATERIALIEN Below you'll find a list of the grammar worksheets I've compiled over the last few years. All of these pages are my own compilations, but I can't claim credit for every single sentence or idea -- many of these worksheets were compiled from older textbooks and various internet sites, and the clip art comes from older textbooks and from freeware clip art collections. HANDOUT: NOMINATIVE, ACCUSATIVE, AND DATIVE: WHEN TO USE THEM 1. Is it a fixed expression? (such as Mir ist kalt, or Es tut mir Leid): 2. Does the noun follow either an accusative or a dative preposition?If so, this should be easy, since the preposition determines the case. Just make sure you know which prepositions take the accusative (dogfu) and PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. PRÜFE DICH: ADJEKTIVENDUNGEN SELF-TESTS Prüfe dich: Adjektivendungen Self-Tests: Below are links to some basic "check-yourself" tests for adjective endings. For most of the tests, you simply type or choose the correct ending, and the test will tell you whether it's correct or not. DEUTSCH 101 HANDOUT: THE PERFEKT TENSE Deutsch 101 Handout: The Perfekt Tense: We’re finally going to learn to talk about past events in German! You’re about to learn what’s called the ‘present perfect’ tense in English, or Das Perfekt in German. (Don’t be confused by the word ‘present’ -- this is a past tense that talks about past events -- it’s the English terminology that’s confusing.) HANDOUT: DAS PASSIVPASSIV DEUTSCHNANCY THULEEN GRAMMARNANCY THULEEN ACCUSATIVENANCY THULEEN GERMAN Note: The preposition durch can be used when the active subject is an instrument (a thing or cause) of the action, rather than an initiator (person): Berlin wird durch eine Mauer geteilt. Of course durch takes the accusative, as always. And like the English "with," mit can be used to indicate a tool used to carry out the action: Die Tür wird mit einem Schlüssel geöffnet. HANDOUT: KASUS: NOMINATIV UND AKKUSATIV The woman sees the girl. The woman is the subject and is nominative.: the girl is the direct object and is accusative.: The girl sees the woman. The girl is the subject and is nominative.: the woman is the direct object and is accusative.: George W. Bush is the President. George W. Bush is the subject and is nominative.: the President is ALSO nominative because it follows “to be” (is). ARTICLE COMPARISON: CEZANNE Meyer Schapiro, "The Apples of Cezanne: An Essay on the Meaning of Still-life," in Schapiro, Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries (1978), pp. 1-38. Richard Schiff, "Cezanne's Practice," in Schiff, Cezanne and the End of Impressionism (1984), pp.199-219.
STUDIES: NANCY THULEEN Personal site describing my academic interests in German Literature and Teaching German as a foreign language. PLAUTUS - DARK HUMOR AND DRAMATIC IRONY - NANCY THULEEN BACK TO ESSAYS-- PRINT VERSION: Dramatic Irony and Dark Humor in the Plays of Plautus: Aristophanic and Plautine comedies clearly share many important similarities: modeled as they were on Greek originals, the plays of Plautus often re-cast the ancient theatrical conventions and themes -- caricatures, political commentary, prologues and epilogues, moral sermons -- in a slightly Romanized world. ESSAYS AND ARTICLES • AUFSÄTZE UND REFERATE Below you'll find a sampling of my coursework and the major papers I've written over the course of my studies, both as a graduate student in German Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and also as an undergraduate at Pomona College, California.Many of the papers are in English, but some are in German -- feel free to run them through a Google Translator to make them even more HANDOUT: USES OF WERDEN Handout: Uses of Werden: As you may have noticed, the verb werden can have many uses in German. You've now learned the four primary uses of werden, and hopefully you can distinguish between them.Let's review what we know. 1. Werden can be a main verb, not a helping verb.When it's used alone this way, it means "to become". HANDOUT: DER GENITIV The formation of the article in the genitive is fairly simple, as there are only two different endings (-es for masculine and neuter, -er for feminine and plural).However, the genitive case is unusual in German because it adds an ending not only to the articles, but to masculine and neuter nouns as well. STEFAN GEORGE AND ANTON WEBERN Anton Webern (1883-1945) came from a different tradition than George, but the two share certain striking similarities. Webern's early childhood pieces were strongly influenced by Wagner, and even his first published works remained within a tonal and fairly traditionalstyle.
HANDOUT: KASUS: NOMINATIV UND AKKUSATIV The woman sees the girl. The woman is the subject and is nominative.: the girl is the direct object and is accusative.: The girl sees the woman. The girl is the subject and is nominative.: the woman is the direct object and is accusative.: George W. Bush is the President. George W. Bush is the subject and is nominative.: the President is ALSO nominative because it follows “to be” (is). HANDOUT: NEGATION WITH NICHT AND KEIN Worksheet used in teaching German to undergraduates. If you’re negating the entire idea of the sentence, or the verb itself, then nicht should go as far toward the end as possible. There are some elements of the sentence -- verb participles, separable prefixes, and infinitives -- that will take priority over nicht, so in more complex sentences nicht may not be at the very end, but in basic HANDOUT UND ÜBUNGEN: WO- UND DA-KOMPOSITA In each of these cases, pronouns can replace nouns representing either people or things. However, objects of prepositions work differently. When the noun being replaced refers to a person, then a pronoun can be used.In this case the substitution will mean him, her, them, etc. ÜBUNG: VERBEN MIT TRENNBAREN PRÄFIXEN Übung: Verben mit trennbaren Präfixen: A. Was hat Anna heute vor? Write the sentences using the elements given. Pay attention to wordorder!
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I'm your host and webmaster, Nancy Thuleen. This site collects a number of my primary interests, most of which involve German language and literature, with an emphasis on teaching materials and on the various essays I've written over the past ten years. If you've visited here before, you'll doubtless notice the major update to both the design and content of this site. Please let me know what you think of the new layout, and if you find any errors or misdirected links, I'd very much appreciate it if you'd let me know. I do code all by hand, so I know there are some errors that slip by from time to time, and I'd very much appreciate any corrections orsuggestions.
If you haven't been here before, then welcome, and enjoy your look around. The clickable words in the logo bar above will lead you to various areas of the site, and I've also listed some frequently-accessed sections in the sidebar on the left. Many people land here after finding snippets of my writings in a search engine. My essays on German Literature (along with a few on other topics) are collected under the WRITE tab. The READ tab will take you to some information about my favorite authors and a list of the books I own. A major update is currently taking place under the TEACH tab, since I've found that many teachers and students land here hoping to use my German-language teaching materials. If that's what you're interested in, please do take a look, but be aware that it's in a state of revision at the moment. Finally, the other tabs should be self-explanatory: LEARN explains what I study and what my academic pursuits are, while PLAY shows off my less academic interests and hobbies (including my cat). Last but not least, I've added in a SITEMAP to help you navigate if you get lost. Proud Mac user since 1991! Search NTHULEEN.COM for: Web Hosting with Total ChoiceDetails
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