Deutsch 301 • Herbstsemester 2011 • Sitzung Nr. 19 • 28.11. Mo • Tagesordnung

√ = anwesend (nicht);
e = entschuldigt;
s= spät

√Fischer
Tonverarbeitung

√Evan Bowman
Produktions-vorgänge

√Beth Holub
Text-verarbeitung

√Laurel Jones
??

√Stacie Looney
Produktions-vorgänge

Michael Manca
Markt-forschung

√Tim Meyer
Büro-verwaltung

√Ivan Reihsmann
Ausstellung u. Präsentation

√Caren Sutton
Grafik-verarbeitung

RobinWhite
Website-gestaltung

Hauptverkehrszeit - rush hour

verkehrt - backwards, mixed up

Ehebruch - adultery

werden - will (future auxiliary verb)

würden - would (subjunctive / polite form of werden)

schlau - sly

konnt- - could (was able to - past tense of können)

könnt- - could (would/might be able to - present subjunctive of können)

klug - clever

ziemlich - rather

gewöhnlich - usually, habitually

einige - some

irgendein - any

höflich - polite (from Hof = court, thus courtly)

gemein - common, vulgar

Schicht - work shift (Tages-, Abend-)

Überstunden - overtime

gemeiner Menschensinn - common sense

bereit- ready (to commence)

fertig - ready (finished)

erledigen - settle, finish

Fischer-Richardson, German Reference Grammar (revised link to come)

Ansicht - view

Haltung - attitude

Perspektive. Blickpunkt - perspective, point of view

Meinung - opinion

meinen - to think, opine, mean (NOT believe)

glauben - believe, think (NOT cogitate)

denken - think (cogitate, NOT believe)

Ich bin der (genitive) Meinung, daß… - I am of the opinion, that…

Ich teile die Meinung - I share the opinion

recht haben (with person) - (person) be right (NOT recht sein)

richtig/ falsch sein - is right, correct; wrong (of things)

unrecht haben - (person) be wrong (don't use FALSCH)

sich irren - to be wrong, in error

Lage - situation

Umstand (often as plural, Umstände) - circumstance(s), situation (unter Umständen - under [certain] circumstances

Zustand (often as plural, Zustände) - condition

Ursache - cause

Folge - effect

wahrscheinlich - probable/ly

bestimmt - certain(ly), definite(ly)

das stimmt - that's true, right, valid

begreifen - conceive, understand

unbegreiflich - inconceivable

(un)verständlich - (in)comprehensible

Begriff - concept

ernst - serious

lächerlich - ridiculous

•√ SmallTalk: politische Ansichten u. Werte - Was für eine Rolle spielt das in unseren Zukunftsplänen, und in welcher Bedeutung? Nächstes Thema: vielleicht Religion und Glauben.

•√ Übung: Änderung in unserem Leben (besonders innerlich) - Beispiel: Wie oft haben wir unsere Meinungen geändert? (Lebensplan, politische / moralische Ansichten)? Wie oft müssen wir zugeben, daß wir unrecht haben?

•√ Debriefing: What you observed in the foregoing activity - language capabilities and needs; maybe repeat with conscious understanding of aims and techniques (negation; subordinating conjunctions & clauses)

•√ Übungen (Fortsetzung von. Sitzung 17): Welche Änderungen in unserem Leben haben wir zu bereuen / positiv betrachten?

•√ Debriefing: past subjunctive, maybe even with modals - not the latter

•√ Unsere Alltags- u. Fachkenntnisse: woher haben wir sie, wie haben wir sie gelernt? Heute: Mit dem Kopf denken und arbeiten; Mit den Händen arbeiten und 'denken'. Beispiel: Wann haben wir lesen /; schwimmen gelernt?

•√ Debriefing: language targets of the foregoing activity (more modal verbs)

•+ Übung: Processes, bureaucratese, and the PASSIVE - the grammatical structure that says things and processes are more important than people. Vorübung: changing a tire (also this link). Maybe repeat of earlier activities: managing our residence, planning our move; or else some common occupational procedures (changing toner/ink cartridge; manufacturing SpeakEasy cards).

•√ die Gruppe entwirft Fragen für eine(n) Firmenbesitzer(in) über seine/ihre Firma und deren Produke. Gilt auch als Vorbereitung auf eine spätere schriftliche Aufgabe (Beschreibung einer Firma), und auch als Vorbereitung auf die Entscheidung, wieviel/wenig wir in diesem Semester "SpeakEasy" machen werden. SpeakEasy Vortrag

•+ Debriefing: revisions & portfolio; assignment list; assignment texts are being moved to separate pages; SCHEDULING OF THE GROUP ACTIVITY DURING FINALS WEEK: Can we start and end earlier? Switch (some or all) to Wednesday, 7 December? Switch to this Wednesday? (And various combinations)

•N a comedy skit about a team of bumbling, incompetent workers

•+ Wrap up: assignments for the week and preparation for next meeting - see below; we're going to take part of this week and next to catch up and organize

• Final writing assignment (due in draft Wednesday, 30 November): "Mein Weg durch das Leben". Put together the things we've discussed this quarter, about your education, work, and life. Don't forget to think about the "SmallTalk" topics at the start of each class, where you told how various factors in life interacted with your occupational side. Write it all down in about 2 pages - aim for 500-1000 words. Try to show how much you've leanred (including how much German) since you wrote that early essay about "Meine Zukunft". But this is more than just about the future. "Lebensweg" means also how you got this far (and not just the biodata - your inner self as well). Think in terms of a "credo" - a personal statement about what you want from life, including work, how you're going to get there, and the tools you have acquired to help you do it. This piece of writing (and thinking) will be the basis of the group and individual activities during our meeting in our classroom Monday, December 5, from 1730-1920.

• Final translation activity (due Monday, December 5): At the meeting on Wednesday, 23 November, or possibly earlier, you'll receive a German passage that I'll try to relate to the specialized professional interest you expressed during the quarter (or you may choose any of the passages I offer anyone in the class). Translate the passage and format it as a finished document that can go into your portfolio, along with the original, to demonstrate your employable skill in translating printed German into careful English. Link to the translation texts.

Here are links to the sound files and transcriptions of clips we have listened to earlier: Vico Torriani clip; text • Peter und Litwina clip; text • Counterfeiter clip; text; defective product clip; text; "Wohnen mit Kindern" clip • Text;

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• Cumulative / integrative activity I: We'll meet during the usual finals time to conduct a summarizing activity and demonstration of speaking proficiency. I'll propose topics related to language learning, work, professional development, and life. The group will discuss them with me; the discussions will be videorecorded. I'll try to give everyone a fair chance to demonstrate skills and knowledge. The class will be divided into two groups, one group using the first hour of the exam slot, the other the second, so that everyone will have a chance to talk (and can't hide behind others!).

• Cumulative / integrative activity II: Assemble your Portfolio - essentially the collection of your activities in the course. Put it into a systematic form that could go in front of someone who has a job or a scholarship that you might have a chance at. Suggested organization: Your background in German; proofs of your skills in reading, writing, listening, translation, maybe even speaking (if you can figure out how to document that); your personal statement about how German might fit into your future, and what you want out of your education, your professional development, maybe even your life. Bilingual labels or short statements introducing the various parts of your portfolio would be nice ("Ich kann Deutsch übersetzen" / "I can translate German.") It's your decision whether to put into your portfolio everything you did in this course, or even whether to add to it something I don't even know about yet.