German for Reading Knowledge 6 / Changes

German for Reading Knowledge 6 / Changes

Throughout: words that have occurred in Grundwortschatz have been systematically removed from glosses and NOT repeated in later G's

Glosses added for idiomatic expressions but NOT for Sachbezeichnungen / adjectives / simple verbs that can be intuited from context and/or looked up in the dictionary. Throughout, an effort has been made to encourage students to develop reading strategies that extend from recognizing structures, learning vocabulary, intuiting from context and background information, and increased and effective dictionary skills.

Beginning with Kapitel 7, the glosses in chapter readings have been reduced and no longer include words students need to learn to intuit and/or look up in dictionary [for which students need to be developing skills based on recognizing forms/context, intuiting and/or defining correctly using a good dictionary -- in other words the skills requisite for to succeed in reading and understanding German texts]

Exercise Sentences and Reading texts touch a broad assortment of topics from German-language cultures

Texts provide an introduction to in-depth reading in the fields of;

Kapitel 1

GRAMMAR: examples of umlauts page 3

correction: dates for Helmut Kohl page 4

STRATEGY: Explanation of Grundwortschatz, learning strategies for using vocabulary, dictionary, personal vocab lists page 8

Kapitel 2

TABLES made clearer

GRAMMAR: explanation of nominative interrogative slightly expanded to include WAS and expanded discussion of how context and grammatical endings work together to help identify subject/object difference; examples of ambiguous subject-object pp. 14-15 (thanks to Simone Vaidean for suggestion)

GRAMMAR: example/explanation of present tense + future time = implied future on page 17

DELETION of metric conversions p. 18-19

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "viele"

EX: slightly revised exercise sentences: deleted #16+#21, rewrote 20 and 22 reducing total number from 22 to 20 sentences pp. 21-22

READING: Correction of Name of Bach's brother from Christian to Christoph on page 22

Kapitel 3

TABLES made clearer

GRAMMAR: clarification of Masculine nouns on page 28 and eliminated incorrect Autor from list of n-nouns on page 29 (thanks to Robert K. Bloomer of SUNY Stonybrook for suggestion)

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "das Teil"

EX slightly revised exercise sentences 5-7 (on Brecht's theater) on page 32

READING: Corrected spelling of Entdeckungen in reading page 33

Kapitel 4

TABLES made clearer

GRAMMAR replaced the misleading possessive "adjective" with possessive pronoun (page 35)

GRAMMAR revised explanation / examples for ES GIBT on pp 38-39

EX: deleted sentences 16 and 17, new total number of sentences = 18

READING on universities updated with data through 2007

Kapitel 5

TABLES made clearer

Kapitel 6

GRAMMAR deleted text on the doctor with the Mercedes on page 64 and added short explanation of the meaning and positioning of preps meaning "according to" (gemäß, laut, nach, zufolge)

STATEGIES: tips on using dictionary on page 65

EX: replaced Americanisms with German in sentences 5 and 6 on page 66

READING: new introduction to excerpt from Stefan Heym's 5 Tage im Juni: Roman to give reader more context and sense of the importance of the cited incident on page 68

Kapitel 7

TABLES made clearer

GRAMMAR: revised explanation of Adjectives used as nouns on page 73 and of neuter adjectival nouns on page 74

EX: replaced #8-9 with more culturally context-rich exercise sentences

READING reduced glosses for words students need to learn to intuit and/or look up in dictionary

75a insert on page 75.doc

Kapitel 8

GRAMMAR: deleted decontextualized practice phrases 81-82

READING: corrected verb form bietet - bieten (page 86) and reduced glosses for words students need to learn to intuit and/or look up in dictionary

Kapitel 9

READING reduced glosses for words students need to learn to intuit and/or look up in dictionary

Kapitel 10

READING reduced glosses for words students need to learn to intuit and/or look up in dictionary

Kapitel 10-6 review2 [NOTE: no online reading guide]

READING reduced glosses for words students need to learn to intuit and/or look up in dictionary

READING updated statistic on page 109

Kapitel 11

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "rund"(moved from Chapter 12) and " wachsen" on page 118

READING: new reading, once again on Menschen mit HIV and AIDS, but with an eye on effects of the pandemic on Germany and on other parts of the world in the 21st century (on page 121-2)

Kapitel 12

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "Ziel"

EX revised sentences 16-17 with updated data (on page 129)

Kapitel 13

TABLES made clearer

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "Erfolg" and "Schicksal" 9page 135)

Kapitel 14

GRAMMAR: Suffix-er replaced "Finder" w/ "Denker"

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ; removed "Fürst/Fürstin" and added "Bildung, Gymnasium, Hochschule" and two forms of "schaffen" page 143

EX revised/replaced sentences 5, 7-10, 19 with more culturally context-rich exercise sentences on page 144 and 145

READING: new reading "Frauen werden verzweifelt gesucht" about the mobility of young women from Eastern Germany

Kapitel 15

GRAMMAR revised presentation of idiomatic meanings of reflexive verbs on 149

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ add erinnern an / sich erinnern (an) and (sich) waschen on page 151

EX replaced #11 and added #15 to better exemplify added vocabulary and increase contextual framework of exercise sentences (page 153)

Review Reading 3; "Paracelsus"

READING corrected article line 1 from ein to eine

READING reduced glosses making it a much more valuable reading and/or assessment tool; Instead of "just dropping their eyes to the bottom of the page" in order to encode the text, students must use form recognition, learned vocabulary, intuition, background knowledge and dictionary skills, in order to comprehend and/or translate the text.

Kapitel 16

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "Aufklärung, Erkenntnis, Freiheit, Vernunft" on page 162

EX sentences 5, 8-11, and 17 rewritten, collapsed together, and/or deleted because of Americanisms and to increase cultural context; final number of sentences is 17.

READING: reduced glosses

Kapitel 17

READING updated

READING: reduced glosses

Kapitel 18

GRAMMAR: revised presentation of differences between DA as a subordinating conjunction vs. adverbial use. page 179

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "Erfahrung"

READING: reduced glosses

Kapitel 19

TABLEs made clearer

READING: reduced glosses

Kapitel 20

EX sentence #17 edited to reflect standard German usage, thanks to Kai Artur Dies (page 199)

READING: updated edition dates and comments by critics of the latest edition (200-201)

READING: reduced glosses

Review 4: NEW TEXT "Nur ein gefiederter Indianer ist ein guter Indianer": Zum Bild des "Indianers" in Deutschland keeps the topic of Germany's image of the American Indian with a new critical overview of how that image developed since Columbus discovered the "Indios" (202-4)

Kapitel 21

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added three meanings of "vorstellen", "Wörterbuch", and "Zitat" on page 209

READING: reduced glosses

Kapitel 22

GRAMMAR: slight changes to list of idiomatic prepositional phrases (217)

READING: reduced glosses

Kapitel 23

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "Fahrrad" and "Rad" (225)

READING: reduced glosses

Kapitel 24

updated examples

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ moved from later chapters; "entwerfen" "gelten als", "Leidenschaft", "Selbsbewusstsein", "wirklich" and added "Zeitschrift" on page 231

EX replaced sentences 13, 15 and 16 with new contextually and culturally richer exercise sentences (Thema Dresden) 233.doc

READING: reduced glosses

Kapitel 25

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "einschließen" "Gehalt" "zwingen" on 239

READING: reduced glosses

Rview 5 updated edition information

READING somewhat reduced glossing

243a - insert on 243.doc

Kapitel 26

GRAMMAR: addition of definition of "furthermore" for the darüber…hinaus on page 249

EX sentence # 4 add example of darüber…hinaus as "furthermore"

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "betrachten", "Wahl" on page 251

READING somewhat reduced glossing

Kapitel 27

GRAMMAR: revision of presentation of strong verbs on 257

GRAMMAR: new explanation and samples for recognizing difference between simple past and subjunctive forms of weak verbs on page 256

GRAMMAR: new addition of examples of es gäbe, es hätte gegeben on 256-257

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "noch einmal" moved from later "wahr" and "wohl"

EX: added example of ES GÄBE to sentence 5, revised sentences 9, 10, 18

READING: new final paragraph to "Attentat zu Sarajewo" onpage 261

READING: reduced glosses

Kapitel 28

EX; two new sentences, #16 and 17 on page 268

READING: NEW "In Gesamt Westdeutschland sind die Ostdeutschen Einwanderer" looks at "Ostler" as the newest group of immigrants to Germany, with reference to cult film Good bye, Lenin!

Kapitel 29

GRUNDWORTSCHATZ added "Schau" "Spur" "veröffentlichen" and "Zeichen" on page 273

EX: rewritten sentence #4 adds cultural information, revised Sentence 17

READING: reduced glosses

275a insert on page 275.doc

Kapitel 30

GRAMMAR: Completely revised presentation of ES GIBT on page 279

GRAMMAR: ADDED presentation of idiomatic ES + weather expressions (279)

GRAMMAR: Somewhat revised presentations of other ES idioms

EX: rewritten sentence #3, 5, 18

READING: slight edit of Text

READING: reduced glosses, correction of glosses "Sachbezechnung" = "technical term" and "schwäbisch"

Review6

READING: revised and reduced glosses

GFRK6 / insert list /1