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Kontakte A Communicative Approach

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ISBN-10: 0073535338

ISBN-13: 9780073535333

Edition: 6th 2009 (Student Manual, Study Guide, etc.)

Authors: Brigitte Nikolai, Erwin P. Tschirner, Nikolaus Euba, Tracy Terrell, Tracy Terrell

List price: $211.00
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This best-selling German text is based on and inspired by the Natural Approach, pioneered by Tracy D. Terrell. Students learn German through communicative contexts with an emphasis on the four skills and cultural competence, with grammar functioning as an aid to language learning and not as an end in itself. The abundance of interesting personalized activities and a wide variety of authentic and author-written readings in Kontakte ensure that students are exposed to rich language input, critical to language acquisition. A full range of supplements, including video, audio and interactive online materials, provide multiple opportunities to practice newly acquired vocabulary and grammar and…    
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List price: $211.00
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date: 1/8/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Size: 9.50" wide x 11.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 3.278

School affiliation was listed as the University of Iowa---Iowa City. School status cleared 5/27/99.

Selected as the AATG 2013 Post Secondary Outstanding Educator, Nikolaus Euba holds an M.A. degree in "Deutsch als Fremdsprache" from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit�t in Munich. Before coming to California, he taught and coordinated German courses at Miami University (Ohio) and the University of South Carolina. At Berkeley, he directs the German Language Program and mentors the Graduate Student Instructors who teach language courses. His research interests focus on integrating (literary) texts into foreign language teaching and learning, a topic on which he frequently develops workshops and gives presentations. He is a consultant to the College Board's AP program in German and to the…    

Tracy D. Terrell (late)Received his Ph.D. in Spanish linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and published extensively in the areas of Spanish dialectology, specializing in the sociolinguistics of Caribbean Spanish. Professor Terrell’s publications on second language acquisition and on the Natural Approach are widely known in the United States and abroad.

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Giving instructions: polite commands
What is your name? The verb heien
The German case system
Grammatical gender: nouns and pronouns
Addressing people: Sie versus du or ihr
Themen Das Klassenzimmer Beschreibungen Der Kouml;rper Die Familie Wetter und Jahreszeiten Herkunft und Nationalitat Kulturelles KLI: So sehen sich die jungen Deutschen KLI: Wetter und Klima Videoblick: Das Wetter KLI: Die Lage Deutschlands in Europa Videoecke: Familie Strukturen
Definite and indefinite articles
Who are you? The verb sein
What do you have? The verb haben
Plural forms of nouns
Personal pronouns
Origins: Woher kommen Sie?
Possessive adjectives: mein and dein / Ihr Kapitel
Wer ich bin und was ich tue Themen Freizeit Schule und Universitat Tagesablauf Persouml;nliche Daten Kulturelles KLI: Freizeit KLI: Schule Videoblick: Christkindl Videoecke:Tagesablauf Lektuuml;ren Brief eines Internatsschuuml;lers Guten Tag, ich heie ... Strukturen
The present tense
Expressing likes and dislikes: gern / nicht gern
Telling time
Word order in statements
Separable-prefix verbs
Word order in questions Kapitel
Besitz und Vergnuuml;gen Themen Besitz Geschenke Kleidung und Aussehen Vergnuuml;gen Kulturelles KLI: Der Euro Videoblick: Erste Berliner Fashion-Week KLI: Vergnuuml;gen Videoecke: Hobbys Lektuuml;ren Ringe fuuml;rs Leben zu zweit Film: Im Juli Strukturen
The accusative case
The negative article: kein, keine
What would you like? Ich mouml;chte ...
Possessive adjectives
The present tense of stem-vowel changing verbs
Asking people to do things: the du-imperative Kapitel
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The modal verbs kouml;nnen, wollen, mouml;gen
The modal verbs muuml;ssen, sollen, duuml;rfen
Accusative case: personal pronouns
Word order: dependent clauses
Dependent clauses and separable prefix verbs Kapitel
Ereignisse und Erinnerungen Themen Der Alltag Urlaub und Freizeit Geburtstage und Jahrestage Ereignisse Kulturelles Videoblick: Dresdner Bahnhof in neuem Glanz KLI: Feiertage und Brauchtum KLI: Universitat und Studium Videoecke: Feste und Feiern Lektuuml;ren Aufraumen (Martin Auer) Film: Das Wunder von Bern Strukturen
Talking about the past: the perfect tense
Strong and weak past participles
Dates and ordinal numbers
Prepositions of time: um, am, im
Past participles with and without ge- Kapitel
Geld und Arbeit Themen Geschenke und Gefalli