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Conversational German for Advanced Learners

Students enrolled in this course will continue to extend their speaking and listening skills in German as well as their grasp of grammatical structures and everyday German phrases.
Steven Roesch
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5.0
Number of reviews:
(126)
Class

What's included

10 live meetings
7 hrs 30 mins in-class hours
Homework
1 hour per week. Students can expect to get some homework for most if not all of these sessions. Sometimes they'll be asked to fill out worksheets; in other instances they'll have to prepare for an oral vocabulary quiz or perhaps do some writing about a topic we've gone over in class.

Class Experience

What follows is a tentative overview of the topics and materials that we'll cover in these sessions. I might change some of these
depending on learner needs and interests.

WEEK ONE
I. Review of basic conversational vocabulary; Ticket nach Berlin I
II. Subjunctive verbs; telling stories based on visual material (single photos)

WEEK TWO
III. Ticket nach Berlin II; review of preposition use
IV. More about subjunctive verbs; telling stories based on visual material (single photos)

WEEK THREE
V. Ticket nach Berln III; review of adjective endings
VI. Demonstrative pronouns; telling stories based on visual materials (series of pictures)

WEEK FOUR
VII. Ticket nach Berlin IV: 
VIII. Passive voice; telling stories based on visual materials (series of pictures)

WEEK FIVE
IX. Ticket nach Berlin V; coordinating and subordinate conjunctions
X. Review of topics in the course

Students will continue to learn about such areas as
- talking about themselves and others
- asking others about their background and interests
- expressing preferences 
- discussing past and future events
- asking questions about past and future events
- acquiring practical vocabulary to deal with common situations in restaurants, train stations, hotels, and stores
- understanding and using German syntax
- understanding and using common idioms
- learning about and actively using subjunctive verbs to express hypothetical and contrary-to-fact situations
- honing listening skills by watching segments of contemporary German television shows
- summarizing and discussing contents of visual material in German
- reading German legends and folktales
- deepening their understanding of German culture and society
I'll keep organizing this course in a "spiraling" fashion, the way I used to structure my middle school and high school German classes - meaning that I won't just cover something once, but often come back to it and delve into it more deeply.
As in the earlier courses, I'll use German as much as possible so that participants can feel more comfortable with the language. 
In this kind of class it's important that all learners are willing to speak with me and each another so that we can practice and absorb the materials and skills being presented. They'll need to participate actively during each lesson so that we can make substantial progress.

Other Details

Supply List
I'll supply all materials for the class in the Outschool classroom.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
I'll draw on material from the Deutsche Welle and lingua.com websites as well as short segments (two to four minutes in length) of current German television shows.
Joined January, 2021
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126reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
I taught German in middle school and high school settings for thirty years before my retirement in 2016, and I lived, studied, and worked in Germany for more than three years. I've got a bachelor's degree in German, and earning my master's degree in Comparative Literature involved reading and analyzing scores of German novels and plays and writing my papers in German. More recently I've been involved in various German-English translation projects.
I've been teaching German online for almost five years now.

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$160

for 10 classes
2x per week, 5 weeks
45 min

Completed by 4 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 12-16
2-6 learners per class

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