Sun, 2 December 2007  This podcast is about tenses in the active voice, indicative mood. It is not a lecture but an exercise podcast. Students will hear the three principal parts of sixteen verbs and their perfect infinitives. They will then hear the verb in one of the tenses and be asked to transform it into another tense. The teacher will provide the correct answers. Comments[0] |
Wed, 28 November 2007 The teacher explains how to form the present, past, and future perfect tenses using the perfect infinitive. Yes, he also explains what is meant by perfect infinitive.Comments[0] |
Sun, 25 November 2007 The future tense in German consists of WERDEN and the PRESENT ACTIVE INFINITIVE. Examples: WIR WERDEN SPIELEN - WE WILL PLAY, WIR WERDEN GEHEN - WE WILL GO The future perfect tense in German consists of WERDEN and the PERFECT ACTIVE INFINITIVE. Examples: WIR WERDEN GESPIELT HABEN - WE WILL HAVE PLAYED, WIR WERDEN GEGANGEN SEIN - WE WILL HAVE GONE What is a PRESENT ACTIVE INFINITIVE? It is the infinitive that we learned in Level 1 German, just with a fancier name. What is a PERFECT ACTIVE INFINITIVE? TO HAVE PLAYED - GESPIELT HABEN and TO HAVE GONE - GEGANGEN SEIN are examples of perfect infinitives. They consist of the helping verb TO HAVE - HABEN or SEIN and a PAST PARTICIPLE. Listen to the podcast if you need or want a more detailed explanation! Comments[0] |
Sat, 4 August 2007 The teacher explores two uses of SEIN and PAST PARTICIPLES in this podcast episode. He discusses SEIN as a mainverb and linking verb together with a PAST PARTICIPLE that is used as a predicate adjective. He discusses the SEIN or statal passive voice. The main purpose of this podcast is to help students become HABEN and SEIN experts. Comments[3] |
Sun, 22 July 2007 The students know when to conjugate verbs with "haben" and when with "sein" in the present and past perfect tenses, active voice, indicative mood. They are confused, however, when they see or hear what they perceive to be "haben-verbs" used with "sein" and "sein-verbs" used with "haben." Why are they confused? What confuses them? The teacher tries to explain some of the reasons in this podcast. Comments[1] |
Mon, 2 July 2007 The teacher makes recommendations to help students determine when to use the helping verb "sein" in forming the indicative mood, active voice, present and past perfect tenses in German.Comments[0] |
Wed, 23 May 2007 This episode is about the English preposition to and its German equivalents zu, nach, in, an and auf. Determining which preposition to use can be confusing, but it need not be, if we remember the teacher's eleven hints for selecting the right German preposition for to.Comments[1] |
Sun, 15 April 2007 Many German students at all levels continue to struggle selecting the proper helping verb for the present perfect and the past perfect tenses. Is it HABEN or is it SEIN? Listen to this presentation as the teacher explains when HABEN is used to form the present perfect and past perfect tenses!Comments[1] |
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Fri, 30 March 2007 The teacher tries to clarify why we use the subjunctive 1 in indirect speech and also why we sometimes use the subjunctive 2 or alternate subjunctive instead. Comments[0] |
Wed, 14 March 2007 Many students who study German as a second language experience difficulties when they learn the subjunctive mood. It is hoped that by listening to this podcast all students will gain a better understanding what subjunctive mood is, how it is formed, and when it is used. (Please credit Lang-Kleefeld, Antonia, Zweifelsfaelle: Deutsch leicht gemacht, Buch und Zeit Verlagsgesellschaft, mbH, Koeln, 1995, for the organization of this podcast.) Comments[2] |
Sun, 25 February 2007 People like to give orders, but not receive them. This podcast is about commands and the imperative mood. Students will review how to form the du, ihr, Sie and Wir-Imperatives, and also hear and learn about alternative ways of making requests. Comments[0] |
Wed, 14 February 2007 This podcast about the various uses of LASSEN is dedicated to Sgt. Mike Kashkush, US Marine Corps, a former Chagrin Falls High School German student, who recently was KIA in Iraq. Semper Fi, Mike, die, die Dich gekannt haben, werden Dich niemals vergessen!Comments[0] |
Thu, 18 January 2007 You do remember that WO-COMPOUNDS can be used as interrogatives or question words, yes? Well, they can also be used as relative pronouns. In this podcast the teacher tries to explain when and under what circumstances WO-COMPOUNDS can be used as relative pronouns. Comments[0] |
Tue, 2 January 2007 It is time for a random review. Included in this review are parts of speech and cases, relative pronouns and subordinating conjunctions, unpreceded adjectives, wo-compounds as question words, and verb tenses in both the active and passive voice.Comments[1] |
Fri, 1 December 2006 We know that WAS is a question word. However, WAS can also be a relative pronoun. The teacher tries to explain in this podcast episode how WAS can be used as a relative pronoun. Comments[0] |
Mon, 9 October 2006 In this podcast the teacher explains the role of the helping verb WERDEN in forming tenses, voice and mood of the different verbs in German.Comments[4] |
Thu, 21 September 2006 DASS and OB are subordinating conjunctions. DASS means THAT in English and OB means IF. Simple, yes? If it is so simple, why do so many of my students make mistakes when they use them? I do not know, but I hope that my explanations in this podcast will help them to make those mistakes less frequently.Comments[2] |
Fri, 15 September 2006 Is it dass, or is it das? Is it a conjunction, or is it a relative pronoun? If you have trouble distinguishing between the two, listen to the explanations in this podcast and maybe, just maybe, your troubles are over. Comments[0] |
Thu, 7 September 2006 When is Whose a question word and when is it a relative pronoun? The teacher uses the following sentences in his explanation - Wessen Geld gibst du aus? Mit wessen Geld hast du das Auto gekauft? Ich moechte wissen, wessen Geld du ausgegeben hast. Ich kenne den Mann, dessen Geld du ausgegeben hast. Ich spreche mit dem Maedchen, dessen Geld du ausgegeben hast. Die Frau, deren Geld du ausgegeben hast, ist meine Mutter. Hier kommen die Leute, deren Geld du ausgegeben hast.Comments[2] |
Sat, 26 August 2006 In this podcast the teacher reviews the subjects, indirect objects and direct objects in simple sentences. He also explains how the genitive case can be used to establish possessive relationships. The four sample sentences contain only nouns with definite articles and there are separate sentences for masculine, neuter, feminine, and plural nouns.Comments[0] |
Thu, 3 August 2006 Present and past participles can be used as adjectives, however, they can also be used as adverbs. The teacher tries to explain in this podcast how present and past participles can be used as adverbs and he uses the following sentences in his explanations: Ich habe ein Buch geschenkt bekommen. Der Hund kam bellend angelaufen. Der Lehrer stand lächelnd und verwirrt vor seinen Schülern.Comments[0] |
Fri, 28 July 2006 This podcast is about adverbs and what they are and how they are different from adjectives.Comments[1] |
Wed, 26 July 2006 Do you know what Spieler, Lehrer, Trainer and Arbeiter have in common? Do you know what agent nouns are? If not, then listen to this podcast because you owe it to yourself to find out.Comments[0] |
Mon, 3 July 2006 Present and past participles can be used as adjectives. In this podcast the teacher explains what present and past participles are and how they can be used as unpreceded and preceded adjectives. Comments[0] |
Mon, 12 June 2006 Wer, wessen, wem, and wen are interrogative pronouns. Do you know what interrogative pronouns are? If not, then listen to this podcast and find out...Comments[1] |
Wed, 7 June 2006 Adjectives and adjective endings? Complicated? No! Listen to the teacher as he explains predicate and unpreceded and preceded adjectives! Comments[0] |
Wed, 31 May 2006 Kein and all the possessive adjectives are EinWords. What does that mean? Listen to the teacher explain!Comments[0] |
Sun, 21 May 2006 Dieser, jeder, jener, welcher, and solche and manche are DerWords. Listen to this podcasts as the teacher tries to explain the significance of learning all DerWords together.Comments[0] |
Sun, 21 May 2006 Can you tell the difference between personal, reflexive, demonstrative, and relative pronouns? If you cannot, then listen and maybe you will be able to.Comments[0] |
Wed, 3 May 2006 Da and weil are subordinating conjunctions and denn is a coordinating conjunction. The purpose of this podcast is to explain when to use one over the others, and then how to use them correctly.Comments[0] |
Mon, 1 May 2006 Als, wenn, or wann? All three can mean when in English, but there is a problem, they are not interchangeable in German. Comments[0] |
Fri, 28 April 2006 Modals? What are modals? Listen to this podcast for my level one students and find out!Comments[0] |
Tue, 25 April 2006 What are subordinating conjunctions? Listen to this podcast to obtain a general overview of subordinating conjunctions. Specific subordinating conjunctions will be discussed in other podcasts.Comments[0] |
Sun, 23 April 2006 Sein, heissen, and werden are very common German linking verbs! It is hoped that after listening to this podcast, my students will never again use the dative or accusative cases after a linking verb.Comments[0] |
Sun, 23 April 2006 What are daCompounds? Find out what they are by listening to this podcast and by doing the exercises on the Chagrin Falls High School German webpage on Blackboard.com!Comments[0] |
Thu, 13 April 2006  What are the most common coordinating conjunctions? How are they used? Listen and find out!Comments[0] |
Tue, 11 April 2006  This podcast is the first of three podcasts dealing with the different tenses in the passive voice. How do you form the passive voice? The teacher tries to explain how...Comments[0] |
Wed, 29 March 2006 You do not always need "haben" or "sein" and a past participle to form the present and past perfect tenses. You can use the double infinitive construction. How? The teacher explains how in this podcast.Comments[0] |
Wed, 15 March 2006 In this podcast the teacher discusses relative pronouns that are the subjects, direct objects, and indirect objects of their relative clauses.Comments[1] |
Wed, 8 March 2006 This podcast treats indirect objects in a simple sentence. The subjects, direct objects, and indirect objects in all examples are nouns. The verbs are in the indicative mood, active voice, present tense.Comments[0] |
Mon, 6 March 2006 In this podcast the teacher reviews the indefinite article ein in the nominative and accusative cases. Comments[0] |
Wed, 1 March 2006 This podcast is about verb tenses in the active voice, indicative mood. It is intended for Chagrin Falls High School German students as supplementary material.Comments[0] |
Wed, 1 March 2006 Find out here, what a direct object is and what case it takes! This podcast is mainly for German 1 students... Comments[7] |
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