GerGermanGrammarPodcasts
Publisher: Mario Gerhardt
Genre: Education
Language: English
American students generally experience difficulties when learning German grammar. It is hoped that these podcasts together with Power Point presentations, exercises on the German class webpage on Blackboard.com, and Quizzler exercises for handhelds, will help Chagrin Falls High School German students master these topics more readily. Links to German speaking podcasts to improve listening comprehen... (more)
Copyright: 2006-2010
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My Chagrin Falls Memorial Day Speech 2010
This is no grammar podcast but it is the speech which I prepared for Memorial Day 2010 in Chagrin Falls. Although we managed to get in most of the Memorial Day festivities, my speech was rained out or thundered out. I guess I shouldn't feel too bad a... (more)
Cheatsheet 2 for Writing Simple Sentences
"Das Maedchen bringt dem Lehrer den Apfel. Dem Lehrer bringt das Maedchen den Apfel. Den Apfel bringt das Maedchen dem Lehrer." What do the three sentences have in common? They all mean "The girl brings the teacher the apple." How... (more)
Cheatsheet 1 for Writing Simple Sentences
The purpose of this podcast was to create a cheatsheet which would help students write better simple German sentences. There were three objectives: To help students form simple sentences consisting of a subject, a verb, an indirect obj... (more)
The Six Active Voice Tenses
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&nbs... (more)
The 3 Perfect Tenses
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.
The Future and Future Perfect Tenses
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 INFINIT... (more)
More SEIN and PAST PARTICIPLE Combinations
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.... (more)
HABEN and SEIN?
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 "ha... (more)
Sein
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.
How to say "to" in German
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 ... (more)
Haben
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 whe... (more)
LIEGEN or LEGEN?
This teacher recently listened to podcasts from Grammar Girl about the confusion that exists between the verbs TO LIE and TO LAY and TO HANG and TO HANG in English. Well, the same problems exist in German. Take a student who ... (more)
Indirect Speech and Subjunctive One
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.
Overview of the Subjunctive Mood
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 i... (more)
Commands and Requests
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 reques... (more)
Uses of LASSEN
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 ni... (more)
Wo-Compounds as Relative Pronouns
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 ... (more)
Random Grammar Review 1
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.
The Relative Pronoun WAS
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.
WERDEN
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.
Dass and Ob
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 ... (more)
Dass or das?
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.
Question Word or Relative Pronoun?
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... (more)
Possession and the Genitive Case
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 wit... (more)
Participles as Adverbs
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 h... (more)
Adverbs
This podcast is about adverbs and what they are and how they are different from adjectives.
Agent Nouns
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.
Adjectives2
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.
Wer? Wessen? Wem? Wen?
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...
Adjective Endings 1
Adjectives and adjective endings? Complicated? No! Listen to the teacher as he explains predicate and unpreceded and preceded adjectives!
Ein Words
Kein and all the possessive adjectives are EinWords. What does that mean? Listen to the teacher explain!
DerWords
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.
Four Types of Pronouns
Can you tell the difference between personal, reflexive, demonstrative, and relative pronouns? If you cannot, then listen and maybe you will be able to.
Da, Weil, Denn
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.
Als Wenn Wann
Als, wenn, or wann? All three can mean when in English, but there is a problem, they are not interchangeable in German.
Modals in the Present Tense
Modals? What are modals? Listen to this podcast for my level one students and find out!
Intro to Subordinating Conjunctions
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.
Linking Verbs
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.
DaCompounds
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!
Coordinating Conjunctions
What are the most common coordinating conjunctions? How are they used? Listen and find out!
Tenses in the Passive Voice
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...
Double Infinitives in the Present and Past Perfect Tenses
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.
Relative Pronouns 1
In this podcast the teacher discusses relative pronouns that are the subjects, direct objects, and indirect objects of their relative clauses.
Indirect Objects in a Simple Sentence
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.
The Indefinite Article "ein" in the Nominative and Accusative Cases
In this podcast the teacher reviews the indefinite article ein in the nominative and accusative cases.
Tenses in the Active Voice
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.
Direct Objects in a Simple Sentence
Find out here, what a direct object is and what case it takes! This podcast is mainly for German 1 students...
