(updated: 5 December 2004)
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11 November Oral test #2 and Writing test #2 - instructors will announce their own schedules and procedures

26 October Assignment #3 (assess your proficiency); instructors state the "clock-start" day for their sections. Usual due-date policy. Choose "Basic Documents & Introductory Assignments" in menu above, or scroll down to the section.

16 October Scoring guide for reading dialogs out loud (.pdf, 8KB). Will be used on oral tests where dialogs are checked. Can also be used for self-evaluation. Choose "Tests" in the pull-down menu above.

13 October Writing test #1 and Oral test #1 are now available for preview. Scroll to "Tests" section below or use the pulldown menu at the top of this page. Both tests cover Kontexte 1 & 2. Later tests are always cumulative.

11 October Project #1 - "Have Fun with German" - is now available and officially assigned. Scroll to "Projects" section below or use the pulldown menu at the top of this page.

3 October 2004 Assignment #2 is now ready, with materials below. The Course Description included an item named "Assignment 2," whichwas a tutorial about how to get your materials and a check to see whether your computer was set up properly and could play sound. This year it is clear that most people can get the materials and use them without detailed help, so the OLD Assignment 2 has been removed from the program. It has been replaced with a new Assignment 2, which used to be Assignment 3.
Basic Course Documents & Introductory Assignments go to top of page

About Scoring Guides: The course uses the standard 6-level system for performance evaluation. Key features of the learning activity are described with performance profiles at the various levels. If the scoring guide for your activity is available to you while you are doing the activity, you can use it as a recipe to get the grade you want - if you do the learning that produces the results described in the scoring guide.

Course Description & Initial Syllabus with Assignment 1 (.pdf, 242K) Four-page presentation: staffing, materials, calendar, goals, testing & grading, preliminary syllabus, and first assignment. Read this the first quarter you enter first-year German.
Scoring Guide for Assignment 1 (.pdf, 11K)

Study Advice and Checklist for Completing a Kontext Unit (.pdf, 28KB) This is advice about what to do for any Kontext. The Basic Assignment for each Kontext has a completion checklist that is specific to each Kontext.

Assignment 2 and Its Scoring Guide NOTE: In previous years this was assignment 3, but the Assignment 2 from previous years has now become obsolete. The new Assignment #2 is a questionnaire that checks whether you know how your materials are organized, and what you think about the components of a language-learning program. With the questionnaire is the scoring guide for the assignment, which you can use as a set of standards to aim at in order to get the score and grade you would like.
Assignment #3 - Rate your proficiency and progress

Basic Kontext Assignments go to top of page

in preparation for use in winter quarter 2005
Projects go to top of page

#2 - "Meine Traumreise / My Dream trip" (link opens in new window)

#1 - "Have Fun with German" (link opens in new window)

Tests go to top of page

Tests cover all material through the Kontext that has been completed as the text cycle begins. You can't use just part of a language, so we don't test just part of it. You may take your tests with any section of the course; please notify both instructors if you plan to do that. Some finals are not on the usual days for their sections, or not at the same time of day a their classes.

Oral test #3 scoring guide (test will be conducted during schedule final exam period)

Writing test #3 scoring guide (test will be conducted during schedule final exam period)

Oral test #2 (instructors will announce schedules for their own sections)

Writing test #2 (instructors will announce start days and deadlines for their own sections)

Scoring guide for reading dialogs out loud (.pdf, 8KB). Will be used on oral tests where dialogs are checked. Can also be used for self-evaluation.

Writing test #1 (page opens in new window, with links to PDFs). DO NOT BEGIN THIS TEST UNTIL YOUR INSTRUCTOR TELLS YOU TO DO SO!
Oral test #1 (page opens in new window, with links to PDFs)
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Items for other quarters:

For each Kontext you will do a set of activities which include:
1) An email report to your instructor, in German, that you are now working on the new Kontext. To it you will add, also in German, one other item of information, of your own choice, that makes the message more human.
2) Short written remarks about some the graphics and sound segments of the Kontext
3) Your self-evalution of your readiness to go on to the next Kontext
Note: Self-evaluations are available ONLY on the WWW version of "Wie, bitte?", or by

selecting this link

Later on the Basic Kontext Assignment will be expanded to include longer personal writing activities, software-based writing and listening tutorials, and culture-learning activities.
Specifications & Scoring Guide for Basic Kontext Assignments
You should begin the Basic Kontext Assignments no later than the day of the first classroom session of each new Kontext. They are due the day of the first classroom session of the following Kontext.

Assignment #4 is the response to the video about popular images of language learning. The worksheet was distributed in class. If you missed the class, talk to your instructor.

#2 "Deutsch und mein Studium und Beruf / German and My Education and Occupation"

Assignments for new students: