1st day: Greetings

J?gerbuch, Access to German, Band 1, E. Kuhn-Osius, McGraw Hill, 2002

WARM-UP: Go to? http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/ForeignLanguages/LEllis/ to find the maps

1)      Maps: Find a map of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein
???????? 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: Find 5 interesting cognates in the site???
?????? http://www.csuchico.edu/~goulding/german1/cognates.htm
3) ?Das Alphabet?:  TBA
The Alphabet: The modern German alphabet is as follows (sound files are in WAV format):

4)  Greetings: Formal: http://german.about.com/lr/german_idioms/252851/1/

????????????????? Formal:???? Guten Morgen!   Guten Tag! ☼   Guten Abend!    ☾   Auf Wiedersehen!
                  Informal:  Hallo!     Gr?? Gott! (south Germany.& Austria)   Tsch?? or Tsch?s

5) Introduction:   ???? Mein Name ist Ellis.  (My name is ?) ?or  Ich hei?e Ellis.    
        Question:     ??? Wie hei?en Sie? (What is your name?)   or  Wer sind Sie? (Who are you?)
        Answer:        ?? Ich hei?e ?      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.