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Test what you teach / formative <=> summative assessment Goals for 1101 / 1102 / 1125 Students will be able to Upon completion of German V1101, students who have attended classes regularly and successfully completed all assignments and ALL exams (with a minimum grade of B) should be able to: Upon completion of German V1102, students who have attended classes regularly and successfully completed all assignments and ALL exams (with a minimum grade of B) should be able to: V1125 is an intensive, accelerated multi-skill language course which strengthens listening, speaking, reading, writing, and seeing skills in German and promotes understanding of German culture. Upon completion, students who have attended ALL classes and successfully completed ALL assignments and ALL exams (with a minimum grade of B) should be able to: Grammar tests + Achievement tasks Culture as Key to reason for achieving language skills.
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 * Session 5: Feedback and Assessment ** : Ways to interact with and assess progress by students in communicating about how they are learning, what they are learning, what they still need to learn to achieve goals set for 1101/1102/1125
 * provide basic information in German about themselves, families, interests, likes and dislikes, daily activities;
 * understand and participate in a simple conversation on everyday topics (e.g., weather, meeting people, school, shopping, etc.);
 * read edited texts on familiar topics, understand the main ideas and identify the underlying themes;
 * pick out important information from a variety of "authentic texts" (e.g.,. menus, signs, train schedules, websites, but also newspaper articles and simple literary texts, etc.);
 * begin to follow film material, identify chief characters and plots, as well as positive and negative critiques on popular German films;
 * fill in forms requesting information, write letters, notes, post cards, or messages providing simple information;
 * provide information about German-speaking countries (e.g., geography, weather, du/Sie distinction, customs);
 * use and understand a range of essential vocabulary related to everyday life (e.g., days of the week, colors, numbers, months, seasons, telling time, foods, names of stores, family, common objects, transportation, etc.), and
 * pronounce German well enough and produce German with enough grammatical accuracy to be comprehensible to a German speaker accustomed to speaking with non-natives.
 * provide basic information in German about themselves, families, interests, likes and dislikes, daily activities;
 * understand and participate in a simple conversation on everyday topics (e.g., weather, meeting people, school, shopping, etc.);
 * read both edited and unedited texts on familiar topics and on topics of cultural interest in contemporary Germany with the focus being to understand the main ideas, and pick out important information from "authentic texts" (e.g.: newspaper articles, emails and websites, excerpts from short stories, etc.);
 * fill in forms requesting information, write letters, notes, post cards, or messages providing simple information, but also write short essays expressing opinions, describing, narrating, and supporting arguments;
 * provide information about German-speaking countries (e.g., geography, weather, du/Sie distinction, customs);
 * work with scenes from contemporary and classical German cinema (including a full-length feature film);
 * use and understand a range of essential vocabulary related to everyday life, school and university, travel situations and European geography, interpersonal relations, interview situations, plus a growing number of strategic concepts essential to expressing opinions and supporting arguments, and
 * pronounce German with increasing sense of differentiation, as well as produce German with a level of grammatical accuracy that makes students comprehensible to a German speaker accustomed to speaking with non-natives. The goal is to be able to say clearly what one can say and not have to give up just because a specific word or form remains out of grasp.
 * Provide information in German about themselves, their families, interests, likes and dislikes, and daily activities in all time frames;
 * Understand and participate in simple conversations on a variety of everyday topics (e.g., weather, meeting new people, school, shopping, dining out, traveling, etc.);
 * Read ad both edited and unedited texts on familiar topics and on topics of cultural interest in contemporary Germany with the focus being to understand the main ideas, and pick out important information from "authentic texts" (e.g.: menus, signs, train schedules, t.v. schedules, popular magazines, newspaper articles, emails and websites, excerpts from short stories, etc.);
 * Fill in forms requesting general information, write letters, notes, post cards, or messages providing simple information, but also write short essays expressing opinions, describing, narrating, and supporting arguments;
 * Write creative stories using a full range of time frames;
 * work with scenes from contemporary and classical German cinema (including a full-length feature film);
 * Provide general information about the German-speaking countries (e.g., geography, size, weather, du/Sie distinction, daily customs, etc.);
 * Use and understand a range of essential vocabulary related to everyday life school and university, travel situations and European geography, interpersonal relations, interview situations, plus a growing number of strategic concepts essential to expressing opinions and supporting arguments, and
 * Pronounce German with increasing sense of differentiation, as well as produce German with a level of grammatical accuracy that makes students comprehensible to a native speaker accustomed to speaking with language learners. The goal is to be able to say clearly what one can say and not have to give up just because a specific word or form remains out of grasp. Some repetition will be necessary, but skills in circumlocution increase the successful 1125 student's preparedness to face day-to-day situations in a native German setting.