CUNY, QCC, Dept.Foreign Lang. & Lit. (H214)                                   LG 111,  Elem. German I

Coordinator:  Dr. Lorena B. Ellis, LEllis@qcc.cuny.edu

Office: H221; Tel: (718) 631-6259 or Voice: (718) 281-5444      Off.hrs. Mo/We. 9-10am We.5-6pm
 Text: Jägerbuch, Access to German, Band 1, E. Kuhn-Osius, McGraw Hill, 2nd.ed.,2002

1)      Maps: Find a map of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein (www.google.com)

Type “map Austria” http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-577490-map_of_austria-i

Type “map Germany” http://www.iesc.info/2daini/ger/germany-map.gif

Type “map Liechtenstein” http://www.theodora.com/maps/new9/liechtenstein.gif

Type “map Switzerland” http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-577940-map_of_switzerland-i

2)  Cognates: please turn over!

3) “Das Alphabet”:  http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Hall/1238/intro.html#ortho

The Alphabet: The modern German alphabet is as follows (sound files are in WAV format):

a

ah

g

geh

m

emm

s

ess

y

üppsilon

b

beh

h

hah

n

enn

t

teh

z

tsett

c

tseh

i

Ih

o

oh

u

uh

ß

eszett

d

deh

j

jot

p

peh

v

vau

ä

äh

e

eh

k

ka

q

kuh

w

weh

ö

öh

f

eff

l

ell

r

err

x

eks

ü

üh

4)  Greetings: Formal: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Hall/1238/sayings.html

   Guten Morgen!   Guten Tag! ☼   Guten Abend!    ☾   Auf Wiedersehen!

                        Informal:  Hallo!                 Grüß Gott! (south Germany.& Austria)   Tschüß or Tschüs

5) Introduction:    Mein Name ist Ellis.  (My name is …)             or           Ich heiße Ellis.    

        Question:      Wie heißen Sie?            (What is your name?      or           Wer sind Sie? (Who are you?)

        Answer:         Ich heiße …      or      Ich bin …     Mein Name ist …

        Question:      Wie schreibt man das?   (How do you spell  it?)

                               Ellis   E(e) – L(el) – L(el) – I(ee) – S(es)                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

        Question:      Woher kommen Sie?       (Where do you come from?)                                                      Answer:         Ich komme aus Brasilien / Amerika / New York / Queens, etc.

        Question:      Was studieren Sie?          (What do you study?)

        Answer:         Ich studiere  (see p.2) Physik.

Homework (Hausaufgabe):                                                                                                                                                               Name:__________________________________

Please answer (Bitte antworten)

        Questions (Fragen):                 Answers (Antworten):

        Wie heißen Sie?                        ………………………………………………………………………..

        Wie schreibt man das?              …………………………………………………….………………….

        Woher kommen Sie?                 ………………………………………………………………….…….

        Was studieren Sie?                    …………………………………………………………………….…