Legacy Video Lectures (& More Legacy German 101/102 Resources)

Vocabulary overviews for PAST German 101/102/103 courses using the textbook Vorsprung [searchable Google docs!]

• Errors and broken links in these older materials are no longer being updated!
• All vocabulary from OLD German 101/102 [Vorsprung Kapitel 1-11]
• OLD German 101 vocabulary [Vorsprung Kapitel 1-6]

To practice the vocabulary for each chapter, go to the German 101 Quizlet folder (Kapitel 1-6) or the German 102 Quizlet folder (Kapitel 7-11). You can also preview the German 231 vocabulary here.

• For German 101, check out Tina’s list of Quizlet sets organized by chapter & topic
• For German 102, check out Tina’s list of Quizlet sets organized by chapter & topic
• Or/And check out this advice for making your own flashcards

Suggested procedure:

• Work on one chapter at a time; re-visit earlier chapters regularly
• Be sure to turn on the German audio (Settings/Options > turn ON “Text to speech” and then turn OFF the English audio in the “Advanced text to speech” setting that becomes available when you turn on “Text to speech”). Do your best to imitate the audio when you read the German side of the cards!
• Spend 10-15 minutes at a time going through the cards. For each card, try to form a very simple sentence with the word as quickly as you can, and say it out loud
  • Your sentences can be as simple as “[Noun] ist groß/klein/abstrakt; Ich mag [Noun] (nicht); Ich [Verb] (nicht) gern; Ich bin (nicht) [Adjective/Adverb]
  • Absurd/surreal sentences can be fun & effective. Keep them simple & picture them!
  • Can’t think of a sentence right away? Just say the word out loud and move on.
  • Here are some ideas for forming simple sentences quickly.

Kapitel 1 Main topics:

• Formal commands
• heißen & sein
• Questions
• der/das/die and ein/ein/eine
• The pronouns er/es/sie
• Nominative Case
• Negation: kein vs nicht

Comprehension check [online exercise]

• See 20 items at a time, with option to “submit score”
• See all items in item bank; no “submit” option [not available yet]

End-of-chapter worksheet

Vocabulary handout

Vocabulary worksheet

Vocabulary check [online exercise]:

• See 20 items at a time, with option to “submit score”
• See all items in item bank; no “submit” option [not available yet]

Kapitel 2 Main topics:

• haben
• Present tense of regular verbs
• gern
• Accusative Case
• Masculine N-nouns (Weak Nouns)
• Verb in Position 2
• Telling time
• Separable verbs
• The position of nicht & a review of nicht vs kein

Comprehension check [online exercise]

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End-of-chapter worksheet

Vocabulary handout

Vocabulary worksheet 1

Vocabulary worksheet 2

Additional practice [external site:]

• Zeit
• Woche
• Familie
• Farben
• Aussehen

Kapitel 3 Main topics:

• Present tense of stem-changing verbs
• Accusative Pronouns
• Nominative and Accusative of Possessive Adjectives
• Coordinating Conjunctions: und, denn, sondern, aber, oder
• lieber
• The modal verbs möchte and können
• wissen & kennen
• Noun plurals

Comprehension check [online exercise]

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End-of-chapter worksheet

Vocabulary handout

Vocabulary worksheet 1

Vocabulary worksheet 2

Additional practice [external site:]

• Nahrungsmittel
• Mahlzeiten
• Getränke
• Früchte
• Gemüse
• Geschirr
• Gebäude

Kapitel 4 Main topics:

• The Imperative
• Modal verbs
• Accusative prepositions

Comprehension check [online exercise]

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End-of-chapter worksheet

Vocabulary handout

Vocabulary worksheet

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Kapitel 5 Main topics:

• Conversational Past tense (das Perfekt)
• Present tense verbs with seit, schon and erst
• The subordinating conjunctions weil, dass and ob
• Infinitive clauses with zu
• Word order: What we’ve learned so far

Comprehension check [worksheet]

End-of-chapter worksheet

Vocabulary handout

Vocabulary worksheet

Vocabulary check [online exercise]:

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Kapitel 6 Main topics:

• Dative Case
• The subordinating conjunction wenn
• Der-words

Comprehension check [online exercise]

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Vocabulary worksheet 1

Vocabulary worksheet 2

Kapitel 7 Main topics:

• Two-way prepositions
• The verb pairs liegen/legen, stehen/stellen, hängen/hängen and sitzen/setzen
• Time expressions
• Word order: time, manner, place
• The subordinating conjunction damit

Supplementary Video with great usage examples for the 2-way prepositions

Comprehension check [online exercise]

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End-of-chapter worksheet

Vocabulary handout

Vocabulary worksheet 1

Vocabulary worksheet 2

Additional practice [external site:]

• Fahrzeuge
• Gebäude
• Geschäfte
• Positionen
• Richtungen

Kapitel 8 Main topics:

• Reflexive verbs
• Future tense
• Prepositional verbs
• Da- and Wo-compounds

Comprehension check [worksheet]

End-of-chapter worksheet

Vocabulary handout

Vocabulary worksheet

Vocabulary check [online exercise]

• See 20 items at a time, with option to “submit score”
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Kapitel 9, Teil 1 Main topics:

• Relative clauses
• Introduction to Subjunctive II
  • würde + infinitive
  • hätte & wäre

Comprehension check [online exercise]

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Kapitel 9, Teil 2 Main topics

• Adjective endings
• Comparative & Superlative

Comprehension check [worksheet]

End-of-chapter worksheet

Kapitel 10 Main topics:

• Narrative Past tense
• Als, wenn, wann and ob
• Word order in sentences beginning with a subordinate clause
• Past Perfect tense and the conjunctions bevor & nachdem
• Genitive Case

Comprehension check [online exercise]

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Vocabulary worksheet 2

Kapitel 11, Teil 1 Main topics:

• Subjunctive II

Vocabulary handout

Vocabulary worksheet

Vocabulary check [online exercise]

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Kapitel 11, Teil 2 Main topics:

• Passive Voice
• Summary of the uses of werden

Comprehension check [online exercise]

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End-of-chapter worksheet