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Warmup
See Wie, bitte? photocopies / PDFs
Guten; Ich heiße…; freut mich = pleased / happy (to meet you); gleichfalls = me too (equally, mutually, the same to you); danke; bitte
Find the more proficient ones and model with them, maybe expand a little to check their proficiency.
Then make sure everyone does the basics, and writes them down.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Formal introduction
about me; about you: describe students and elicit some more info (Stimme, Nationalität, Alter, Heimat / Bundesstaat)
Goals
1) Basic survival / conversational German, but with
2) Special emphasis on the musical dimension – examples: a) presenting own “credentials” (Ich singe Bass. Mein Lehrer heißt…); b) simple description of music and performance, like during an intermission or rehearsal
3) Reading skills for “musical” survival (programs, study opportunities, personal websites)
4) Listening skills for “musical” survival: a) hearing basic info about pieces (Neunte Sinfonie, gespielt von…); b) being able to follow simple rehearsal directions
5) Documenting your German skills with standard EU forms
6) Walking through some Lieder texts to see how the literal and actual German differ from the performance English
7) Some larger cultural topics (music in German literature, German literature in music; social issues; other arts)
Structure: main emphases will be learning German (generic, music-related); help with German meaning of Lieder, etc.; cultural background of music
I can help with pronunciation, etc., but I’m not a diction coach.
Not a lot of work outside the class.
Higher-proficiency people should sit near the real beginners, and are expected to help as “souffleur-translators”
Now let’s do some of the survival stuff: Kontext 1
explain the WB photocopies – briefly refer to disks
Numbers & spelling – remind that I’ll be asking them to “notebook” a lot.
Check their feelings, maybe ask about background in learning German.
Pedagogical principles
Negotiating meaning; comprehensible input: I + 1; output; risk-taking & inferencing
Function – context – accuracy
But what about grammar?
Schubert: Erlkönig
Let’s look at a Lied, Erlkönig, and see how much we can understand even with very little German. But first: no German at all (Classical Best C0035 Josefowitz)
Now its language: Lots of present tense; simple sentences, simple words; some stylistic points (In seinen Armen das Kind war tot)
Some caveats about the German in your texts and “real” German:
Du/Sie; archaic/ poetic vocab; past tense; word order; endings, elisions, etc.
The Wie, bitte? Disk
come look at it on laptop; email me if Qs
Wrapup
OK to work on K1/K2 dialogs, with or without disk. We’ll try to do a chapter a day, though not every dialog in the chapter.
I’ll be available extra hours, after I know your (and my!) rehearsal schedule
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