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View the full archive of GerGermanGrammarPodcasts 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 object and a direct object. To convince students to accept that subjects in German are always in the nominative case, indirect objects in the dative case, and direct objects in the accusative case. To motivate students to memorize the definite ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 is this possible? Listen to this podcast as the teacher tries to explain why and how. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 one of the tenses and be asked to transform it into another tense. The teacher will provide the correct answers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 INFINITIVE. Examples: WIR WERDEN GESPIELT HABEN - WE WILL HAVE PLAYED, WIR WERDEN GEGANGEN SEIN - WE WILL HAVE GONE What is a PRESENT ACTIVE INFINITIVE? It is the infinitive that we learned in Level 1 German, just with a fancier name. What is a PE ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. The main purpose of this podcast is to help students become HABEN and SEIN experts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 "haben-verbs" used with "sein" and "sein-verbs" used with "haben." Why are they confused? What confuses them? The teacher tries to explain some of the reasons in this podcast. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 preposition for to. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Relative Pronouns 1 In this podcast the teacher discusses relative pronouns that are the subjects, direct objects, and indirect objects of their relative clauses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Coordinating Conjunctions What are the most common coordinating conjunctions? How are they used? Listen and find out! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |