German 2, Semester 2; Das Freizeitangebot

Sections:

Introduction  |   Section 1  |   Section 2  |   Section 3   |   Dictionaries  |   Verb Chart

Section One:

Part A  |   Part B  |   Part C  |   Part D  |   Part E  |   Part F

Section One - Part B Snacks at events When German speaking people attend an event, they often buy snacks and beverages at concession stands, just as we would. The type of food varies with the type of event: from cotton candy and Lebkuchenherzen at a fair to champagne (der Sekt) at the opera. In this unit there will be several Web Searches for you to find out more about these various foods and to learn vocabulary related to them. You will report your findings to your teacher as an assignment. Schriftliche Aufgabe Our first Web Search has to do with beverages. There are two vocabulary words you should understand before beginning: (Cola)-Light and Schorle. Instead of referring to a beverage as "diet" soda, German adds the word Light to the name. Thus, Pepsi-Light is Diet Pepsi. When juice or wine is combined with sparkling water, the resulting beverage has the word Schorle attached to the name. So Apfelsaft-Schorle is apple juice mixed with sparkling water. Find answers to the following questions and submit them to your teacher. Suggested starting points are google.com AND google.de (or any other sources for information in both English and German), as well as sites using brand names (like Pepsi.de). Diese Aufgabe hat 18 Punkte. 1. Look up the site http://www.emailleschilder.com/coca.htm. ("emailleschilder" are enameled signs; the word has nothing to do with e-mail!)         a) Find the names of at least three other beverage brands besides Coke and Pepsi.         b) Find the words for "ice cold" and "bottle opener."         c) What Coke slogan is represented by "Erfrisch dich"? 2. Look up the site http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezi_%28Getr%C3%A4nk%29 and answer these questions. (If you look carefully you'll find the answers without using a dictionary.)         a) What is Spezi made of?         b) What is the brand name of Pepsi's version?         c) What is the brand name of Coca-Cola's version? 3. Look up Sprudel in a German search engine (like google.de) and find at least five brands. Do you recognize any of these names? 4. Look up the site http://www.odenwald-quelle.de/produkte/schorle.phtml and list five flavors of Schorle in both English and German. (Be careful; one's tricky.) 5. Look up schweppes.de. What are the basic flavors? Who was the founder of the company? Under which of the dates listed is it first mentioned that he invented "Soda Wasser"? 6. Find the German brand names of at least three diet soft drinks. (Hint: start with American brand names.) Don't get tense about tenses! Throughout this course, you've been learning various verb forms and tenses. This seems like a good place to collect the information in one place. We'll start with a review of English tenses. If you find it helpful, you might want to print out this section and also Sections 1C (where we'll summarize the German tenses) and 1E (where the Perfekt and Imperfekt are summarized in more detail). These three pages could be a handy reference section for your notebook. Both English and German use the tense of a verb to indicate whether an event has already happened, is happening now, or will happen later. Both languages have the same six tenses, although they do not use them in exactly the same way. Looking at the chart below, you can see instantly that English has at least two different ways of forming each of the tenses, depending on the helping verb used. German speakers have to learn which one to use when; as an English speaker, you do it by instinct. Also note that this chart only summarizes the basic tense forms; it does not include phrases like "would (eat)," "was (cooked)," "might be (eaten)," "should (cook)," etc. They are not strictly simple tense forms, and their German equivalents are not presented in German 2 English tenses and forms NAME OF TENSE HELPING VERBS USED EXAMPLES (weak and strong verbs; subject "I") Present (none) to be (+ -ing) do/does cook                                eat am cooking                      am eating do cook                            do eat Past / Imperfect (none) was/were (+ -ing) did cooked                             ate was cooking                      was eating did cook                           did eat Future* will will be (+ -ing) will cook                            will eat will be cooking                   will be eating Present Perfect has/have (+ past participle) has/have been (+ -ing) have cooked                      have eaten have been cooking             have been eating Past Perfect** had (+ past participle) had been (+ -ing) had cooked                       had eaten had been cooking              had been eating Future Perfect** will have (+ past participle) will have been (+ -ing) will have cooked                    will have eaten will have been cooking           will have been eating * Both English and German often use the present tense (not the future) when it is clear from the rest of the sentence that the action is not happening now, but will happen later. Example: "I'm going to the movies tomorrow. Ich gehe morgen ins Kino." ** This tense is only used in very specific situations, and it is not taught in German 2. Üben wir Identify the tense of each of these English sentences. Then click on the phrase to see if you were correct. He's going home. present They took a walk. past We'll drive today. future She's been cooking for five hours. present perfect Where did you find it? past I do like spinach. present I'll be seeing you. future Have you eaten yet? present perfect He writes well. present Did he see you? past Where was she standing? past That doesn't count. present Has he done his homework? present perfect How did you do? This is extremely important, so if you need more practice, reload this page and do the activity again. Wie oft? Let's also review talking about how frequently we do things. Some of these words and expressions may be new for you, but you should be able to guess them all. Try it! Remember two things: "alle" is the plural for "jeder," and all these expressions answer the question: "How often?" Klicke auf das Deutsche und du siehst das Englische. jeden Montag every Monday jedes Wochenende every weekend jeden Sommer every summer alle drei Tage every three days alle zehn Minuten every ten minutes einmal in der Woche once a week zweimal im Monat twice a month dreimal im Jahr three times a year viermal alle sieben Jahre four times every seven years oft often selten seldom Now let's practice. Look at the picture and then say how frequently you do that activity. A possible response is there when you click on the image. Achtung! Remember: in German, time expressions come before place expressions. Ich gehe jeden Sommer in den Zoo. Ich gehe selten in den Zirkus. Ich gehe einmal im Monat in ein Restaurant. Ich gehe zweimal im Jahr in ein Rockkonzert. Ich gehe einmal alle drei Jahre in die Oper. Teil C

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