Vorsprung, Enhanced Edition
ISBN: 9780495908036 | 0495908037
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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Vorsprung is an innovative and lively first-year program that uses a five-skills approach, emphasizing the acquisition of communicative as well as cultural competence without sacrificing attention to formal accuracy. Utilizing "focus on form" activities in an engaging, personalized fashion, Vorsprung helps students develop realistic abilities in speaking, listening, and reading German. The program presents a systematic, clear introduction to the essentials of German grammar and practices high-frequency structures and vocabulary in interactive activities. In addition, it provides students with the cultural knowledge that is relevant to their own lives and then asks them to compare their cultures to the habits and behaviors of the German-speaking peoples of Europe. In order to prepare students for successful communication in today's rapidly changing world, Vorsprung exposes them to a wealth of spoken and written authentic textual materials. To support this focus on spoken and written German, Vorsprung offers an array of in-class activities that foster accuracy and provide ample opportunities for students to practice German in authentic contexts.
| Fangen Sie Bitte An | |
| Annas Albtraum | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Understandingcommands and requests | |
| The imperative | |
| Formation of the formal imperative | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Aktivit?ten im Klassenzimmer | |
| The word bitte | |
| Annas Traum | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Greetings and farewells | |
| Strukture... MORE | |
| Describing yourself and others | |
| The verb sein | |
| subject pronouns | |
| The pronoun you | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Titles of address | |
| Asking for someone's name | |
| The verb hei?en | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: das Alphabet | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Zahlen | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Aussehen | |
| Asking for information and clarification | |
| Question formation | |
| Information questions | |
| Yes/no questions | |
| IdentifyingPeople and Classroom Objects | |
| Noun gender and number | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: das Klassenzimmer, der H?rsaal | |
| The nominative case: definite articles der, das, die | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Farben | |
| The nominative case: indefinite articles and kein | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Abbreviated forms of ein | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: L?nder und Nationalit?ten | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Where German is spoken | |
| The nominative case | |
| Pronoun substitution | |
| Familie Und Freunde | |
| Anlauftext: Anna Adler stellt sich vor | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Annas Familie | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Familie und die Verwandten Brennpunkt Kultur: German immigration to North America | |
| Indicatingpossession or ownership | |
| The verb haben | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Abbreviated ich-forms of verbs | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Expressions with the verb haben | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Studienf?cher | |
| Expressing what you like and don't like | |
| The expression gern haben | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Types of universities in Germany | |
| Describing actions | |
| Present tense of regular verbs | |
| Conjugation of regular verbs in the present tense | |
| Present-tense equivalents in English and German | |
| Talking about what you like and don't like to do | |
| Verbs + the adverb gern | |
| Present tense of verbs with gern | |
| Position of gern and nicht gern | |
| Talkingabout what you have and don't have | |
| The accusative case | |
| Definite and indefinite articles | |
| Masculine N-nouns | |
| Absprungtext: Anna schreibt ein E-Mail | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Monate | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Creating variety and shifting emphasis | |
| Position of subject and verb | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Wochentage | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Zeitausdr?cke | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Uhrzeit | |
| Describing daily activities | |
| Regular present-tense verbs: verbs with separable prefixes and two-verb constructions | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Onkel Hannes' Alltag | |
| Expressing negation | |
| Position of nicht Zieltext: Annas E-mail | |
| Was Gibt Es Heidelberg Und Mannheim Zu Tun | |
| Anlauftext: Was halten wir von Anna | |
| Was h?lt sie von uns | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Assumptions with bestimmt, sicher, wahrscheinlich, and wohl | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Mealtimes in German-speaking countries | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Describingactivities | |
| Present tense of stem-changing verbs | |
| The verb wissen | |
| Sprache im Alltag: es gibt, was gibt es...?, and was gibt's | |
| Expressing relationships or ownership | |
| Nominative of possessive adjectives | |
| Expressing additional and contrastive information and justifications | |
| Coordinating conjunctions | |
| Stating personal preferences | |
| The particle lieber | |
| Expressingwhat you would like to do | |
| The modal verb m?chte | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Lebensmittel | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: The metric system | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Specifying amounts | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Bitte sch?n | |
| Absprungtext: Heidelberg und Mannheim | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Heidelberg and Mannheim | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Freizeitaktivit?ten | |
| Expressing possibilities | |
| The modal verb k?nnen | |
| Referring to people and things | |
| Accusative pronouns | |
| Talking about people and things that you know | |
| The verb kennen | |
| Expressing relationships or ownership | |
| Accusative of possessive adjectives | |
| Talkingabout more than one item | |
| Noun plurals | |
| Zieltext: Fahren wir nach Heidelberg oder nach Mannheim | |
| Deutsch im Beruf 1 | |
| Unterwegs | |
| Anlauftext: Mutters Ratschl?ge | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Assumptions with wohl and wahrscheinlich | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Studienm?glichkeiten in Deutschland Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: das Gep?ck | |
| Tellingfriends or relatives to do something | |
| The informal imperative | |
| The du-imperative | |
| The ihr-imperative | |
| Particles with the imperative | |
| Inclusive suggestions: the wir-imperative | |
| Expressing ability, fondness, and expected obligation | |
| Modal verbs (I) | |
| Expressing ability: k?nnen | |
| Expressing fondness and desire: m?gen and m?chte | |
| Expressing expected obligation: sollen | |
| Absprungtext: Fahrrad fahren: Sicherheitsinfo Nr | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Fahrschule und Fahrrad fahren | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Expressing permission, prohibition, necessity, and strong desire | |
| Modal verbs (II) | |
| Expressing permission: d?rfen | |
| Expressing necessity: m?ssen | |
| Expressing strong desire: wollen | |
| Modal verb summary | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Mit der Bahn fahren | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Eigenschaften | |
| Expressing spatial movement, the recipient of something, opposition, and omission | |
| Prepositions with the accusative | |
| Zieltext: Endlich unterwegs! Brennpunkt Kultur: Frankfurt am Main | |
| Freundschaften | |
| Anlauftext: Die Geschichte von Tante Uschi und Onkel Hannes | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Article with first names | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Hansestadt Hamburg | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Talkingabout past events | |
| The conversational past | |
| The auxiliaries haben and sein | |
| Past participles | |
| Prefixes of past participles | |
| Past participles of sein and haben | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: das Wetter | |
| Sprache im Alltag: ganz | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Jahreszeiten | |
| Absprungtext: Freundschaft! Was bedeutet sie | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Bekannte oder Freunde | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Freundschaft und Liebe | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Expressing fondness or love | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Expressing what you know and don't know | |
| The verbs kennen and wissen | |
| Subordinate clauses with ob and dass | |
| The subordinating conjunction dass | |
| The subordinating conjunction ob | |
| Expanding on an opinion or idea | |
| Infinitive clauses with zu | |
| Giving reasons | |
| Subordinate clauses with weil | |
| Positioninginformation in a German sentence | |
| Features of German word order | |
| Subject-verb inversion | |
| Two-part placement of German verbs | |
| Verb forms at the end of a subordinate clause | |
| Talking about activities that continue from the past into the present | |
| Present tense verbs with seit, schon, and erst | |
| Zieltext: Ein Gespr?ch mit Opa und Oma Kunz | |
| Wilkommen in T?Bingen | |
| Anlauftext: Anna zieht ins Wohnheim ein | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: das Studentenzimmer und die M?bel | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Expressions with animals | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Wo Studenten wohnen | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Expressingthe beneficiary or recipient of an action | |
| The dative case | |
| The dative case: personal pronouns | |
| The dative case: definite and indefinite articles, and possessive adjectives | |
| Indicating location | |
| Dative of location: in der, im/in dem, in den | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: ein Einfamilienhaus, die Stockwerke | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: T?bingen | |
| Absprungtext: Integration und multikulturelles Leben | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Ausl?nder in Deutschland | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Expressing when we do things | |
| The subordinating conjunction wenn | |
| Expressing temporal and spatial relationships | |
| Dative prepositions | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Emphasizing one's opinion | |
| Expressingattitudes and conditions such as gratitude, pleasure, ownership, and need for assistance | |
| Dative verbs and expressions | |
| Dative verbs | |
| Adjectives with the dative case | |
| Ka[otC | |
| Idiomatic expressions with the dative case | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: K?rperteile | |
| Specifying what you are talking about | |
| Der-words Zieltext: Gespr?ch in der Gemeinschaftsk?che | |
| Literarisches Deutsch: Zwei Liebesgedichte | |
| Man Kann Alles in Der Stadt Finden | |
| Anlauftext: Barbara muss ein Konto er?ffnen | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Studentenerm??igungen Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Expressinglocation and destination | |
| Two-case prepositions: wo? versus wohin | |
| Two-case prepositions | |
| More about an, auf, and in | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Wo gehst du gern hin | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Names of cities with an/am | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Wo macht man das in der Stadt | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Einkaufen | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Stuttgart | |
| Giving directions | |
| Prepositional phrases | |
| hin and her | |
| Prepositional phrases indicating location | |
| The prefixes hin and her | |
| Verbs commonly used with the two-case prepositions | |
| Absprungtext: Die Entdeckung des Benjamin Lauth | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Fu?ball und Profi-Sport in Mitteleuropa | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: M?nchen Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Talking about when events happen | |
| Time expressions in the dative and accusative case | |
| Time expressions in the dative case | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Expressing regularity | |
| Time expressions in the accusative case | |
| Talking about means of transportation | |
| The preposition mit with the dative case | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Wie kommt man dahin | |
| Expressingtime, manner, and place | |
| Word order for time, manner, and place Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Literatur und Film | |
| Expressing the purpose for an action | |
| The subordinating conjunction damit | |
| Zieltext: In der Buchhandlung | |
| An Der Uni Studieren | |
| Anlauftext: Ein Gruppenreferat | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Universit?tskurse | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Talkingabout activities we do for ourselves | |
| Reflexive verbs with accusative reflexive pronouns | |
| Reflexive and non-reflexive usage of verbs | |
| Verbs that always require a reflexive pronoun | |
| Word order in sentences with reflexive pronouns | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die t?gliche Routine Wissenswerte Vokabeln: im Badezimmer | |
| Talking about daily hygiene routines | |
| Reflexive verbs with dative reflexive pronouns | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: krank sein | |
| Absprungtext: Die beste Uni f?r mich | |
| Sprache im Alltag: studieren vs. lernen Brennpunkt Kultur: Das deutsche Universit?tssystem | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Wie Studierende ihr Studium finanzieren | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Talking about future events | |
| Future time | |
| The present tense with a time expression | |
| The future tense: werden + infinitive | |
| Expressing probability | |
| The verb werden + wohl | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Das deutsche Schulsystem | |
| Specifyingadditional information about actions | |
| Using verbs with prepositional objects | |
| Using da- and wo-compounds Zieltext: Gespr?ch auf einer Party | |
| Ein Praktikum in Wien | |
| Anlauftext: Karl hat ein Vorstellungsgespr?ch bei der Wiener Staatsoper | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Wishing someone luck | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Wien | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Providingadditional information about topics | |
| Nominative case relative pronouns | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Berufe | |
| Accusative case relative pronouns | |
| Dative case relative pronouns | |
| Relative pronouns after prepositions | |
| Proposing activities, making suggestions | |
| Present tense subjunctive with w?rde, h?tte, w?re | |
| Thre present subjunctive of haben and sein | |
| Absprungtext: Wien: Treffen Sie den guten Ton! Brennpunkt Kultur: Berufswahl und Berufsausbildung in deutschsprachigen L?ndern | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Describing people and things (I) | |
| Endings on adjectives after ein-words, der words, or neither | |
| Endings on adjectives after ein-words: nominative case | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Eigenschaften von guten Bewerbern | |
| Endings on adjectives after ein-words: accusative and dative case endings | |
| Describing people and things (II) | |
| Endings on adjectives preceded by a definite article | |
| Adjectives preceded by a definite article: nominative, accusative, and dative case endings | |
| Endings on unpreceded adjectives | |
| Expressingthe city of origin | |
| Forming adjectives from city names | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur:?sterreich | |
| Wissenswerte vokabeln:?sterreichs Leute und L?nder | |
| Comparing people and things | |
| Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs | |
| Comparative forms | |
| Superlative forms | |
| Zieltext: Das Vorstellungsgespr?ch an der Wiener Staatsoper | |
| Deutsch im Beruf 2 | |
| Feste, Feiertage Unf Ferien | |
| Anlauftext: Aschenputtel | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: M?rchen | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Die Br?der Grimm und ihre Kinder- und Hausm?rchen | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Narratingpast events | |
| The narrative past | |
| Narrative past: regular (weak) verbs | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Karneval, Fasching, Fastnacht | |
| Narrative past: irregular (strong) verbs | |
| Narrative past: sein, haben, and the modal verbs | |
| Narrative past: mixed verbs | |
| Absprungtext: Braunwald autofrei: Ein Winterm?rchen... hoch?ber dem Alltag | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Urlaub oder Ferien | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Diminutives | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Die Schweiz | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: die Schweiz - geographische Daten | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Talking about consecutive events in the past | |
| The past perfect | |
| Using the conjunction nachdem with the past perfect | |
| Word order in sentences beginning with a subordinate clause | |
| Talking about concurrent events in the past | |
| Using the conjunction als | |
| Saying when events occur | |
| Using wenn vs. wann vs. ob | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Fest- und Feiertage | |
| Expressingownership | |
| The genitive case | |
| Masculine and neuter nouns | |
| Feminine and plural nouns | |
| Masculine N-nouns | |
| Adjective endings | |
| Proper names | |
| The dative preposition von | |
| Genitive prepositions | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Replacing the genitive in spoken German | |
| Zieltext: Stefans Puddingschlacht | |
| Geschichte Und Geographie Deutschlands | |
| Anlauftext: Was w?rdest du dann vorschlagen | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Sehensw?rdigkeiten in Berlin | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Confirming what someone said | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Deutschland: von der Monarchie zur Demokratie (I) Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Speculatingabout activities, making suggestions | |
| The subjunctive mood | |
| The present subjunctive of k?nnen and the other modal verbs | |
| Making polite requests and suggestions | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Deutschland: von der Monarchie zur Demokratie (II).C | |
| Making role-reversal statements with an deiner (Ihrer, etc.) Stelle... and the present subjunctive | |
| The past-time subjunctive | |
| The double-infinitive construction | |
| Talking about unreal situations | |
| Expressing unreal conditions: Wenn-clauses | |
| Subjunctive II forms of regular, irregular, and mixed verbs | |
| Absprungtext: Die Geschichte Berlins | |
| Sprache im Alltag: Special meanings of Wende Brennpunkt Kultur: Deutschland: von der Monarchie zur Demokratie (III) | |
| Strukturen und Vokabeln | |
| Talking about actions as a process | |
| The passive voice | |
| The passive voice: present tense | |
| The passive voice: narrative and conversational past | |
| The impersonal passive | |
| Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Die Landeskunde Deutschlands | |
| Zieltext: Wie lange hab' ich das nicht mehr gegessen! Brennpunkt Kultur: Freistaat Sachsen: Leipzig und Dresden | |
| Ende Gut, Alles Gut | |
| Anlauftext: Oh, Stefan, wenn du nur w?sstest! Brennpunkt Kultur: Der Einfluss der englischen und der deutschen Sprache aufeinander | |
| Absprungtext: Warum Deutsch lernen | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Amerikaner und amerikanische Kultur im deutschsprachigen Mitteleuropa | |
| Brennpunkt Kultur: Deutsche und?sterreichische Einfl?sse auf Amerikas Kultur | |
| Zieltext: Ich m?chte mein Deutsch benutzen in meinem Beruf | |
| Literarisches Deutsch: Zwei Gedichte | |
| Reference Section | |
| Grammar Summaries and Tables | |
| Principal Parts of Irregular (Strong) and Mixed Verbs | |
| German-English Vocabulary | |
| English-German Vocabulary | |
| Index | |
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