Kapitel+1+-+Lernziele

  **What will I be able to do and say at the end of this unit?** //You will be able to... //

 - talk about past events and happenings - retell your life story - speculate with //when// and //if//

 **What new vocabulary does this unit cover? ** - life milestones - daily routine and personal hygiene (review)

**What new structures will I learn? ** //You will understand the grammar terms... // - preterite - conditional

//You will know... // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- how to use //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Reflexive Verben //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> in the //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Perfekt //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">and review the use of the //Perfekt// in general <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- when and how to use the //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Präteritum //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> for //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">sein //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">, haben and modal verbs <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- how to specify when something happened using the //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Subjunktion "als" // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- how to make conditional statements with the //Subjunktion "wenn"//

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">What will I learn about German culture? ** //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">You will... // <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- learn about the popular German band Wise Guys and learn their song //<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Jetzt ist Sommer //

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">How about cognates, idioms, and other peculiarities? ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- The English word "when" can be used as a question word, to ask when something happened, and also to express what happens or happened if a certain condition is or was met. German has three different words for that: //wann? - wenn - als//

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">- When you use reflexive verbs in conjunction with personal hygiene, the reflexive pronoun is either in the accusative or dative case. Remember that instead of using the possessive article, Germans use a reflexive verb and the direct article: //Ich habe mir die Hände gewaschen. (**NOT:** Ich habe meine Hände gewaschen.)//