Gruppenarbeit Kapitel 8 Woche 8

Arrange a time and meet with all your group members in Zoom and record this group work which should take no more than ca. 20-30 minutes if everyone is prepared and works in an organized way.

Choose one group member to create and host the Zoom conference, and the rest of the group will join the conference.

Instructions for creating/hosting, joining, and recording your Zoom conference are below.

Objective

Analyze subordinate clauses, the dass-clauses, the relative pronouns and the relative clause orally and in writing by working with a dialog and by creating accurate statements in German that use these structures.

Refer to  Intro to Group Activities Page on details on how to record.  Also see General Guidelines to Submission of Group Assignments. 

Overview

This week's group activity will deal with Kapitel 8 Dialog - Neue Hauptstadt, subordinate clauses and dass-sentences, the relative pronouns and the relative clause. 

There are three parts to the groupwork this week:

1) Group Work with Chapter Dialog.

2) Grammar Writing Tasks using this Worksheet Download Group Activity Kapitel 8 Woche 8 Google Doc Worksheet Links to an external site. (access this worksheet by first signing onto https://cloud.it.ufl.edu/collaboration-tools/g-suite/ (Links to an external site.)). 

3) Initial Preparation for Online Skit for Kapitel 7 & 8.

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1. Group Work with Dialog

Before you meet with your group, read and listen to Kapitel 8 Dialog several times (it is recommended to recite it at least five times aloud, as repetition aids learning of grammar and vocabulary). Pay attention to the pronunciation of the native speakers in the dialog. Then practice reading the text aloud to yourself.

Study the vocabulary of the dialog using the flashcards (observe that the flashcards have audio so that you can practice the pronunciation of the words).

Make sure you understand every sentence in the dialog. If you have a problem, ask your group members for help. If the whole group does not understand a sentence, send an email to the instructor. Before you begin this assignment, consult with your group members and divide the roles up so that each person has approximately the same amount to read.

Step 1: Warm-up Pronunciation Practice

Once you can all see and hear each other clearly, do this warm-up Pronunciation Practice:

By the time you reach this point, you should have practiced pronunciation of the Dialog enough that it shows. Your pronunciation doesn't have to be perfect, but you should be able at least to approximate the sounds. One after the other, every group member should pronounce each word in the list below one after the other. Pronounce each word first before clicking on the sound file in order to demonstrate the independent work that you have already done on pronunciation (by practicing with the Dialog recordings on the Dialog page). After pronouncing each word yourself (at least) once, only then click on the sound file to make sure you are approximating how the word sounds as closely as possible.

1. Berlin (“Beh”-“uh”-“leen”)
   
2. Opernsängerin
   
3. eine Mitgliederversammlung (“Mit”-“gleet”-"uh"-“fehr”-“sahm”-“loohng”)
   
4. Religionsfreiheit und Toleranz (“Reh”-“lee”-“gi”-“ohns”-“fry”-“hite” [rhymes with “kite”])
   
5. 'Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste'
   
6. autoritäre Politik
   
7. imperialer Größenwahn
   
8. die radikale aufgeklärte Intelligenz Europas (break down longer words or phrases into constituent sounds: ra-di-ka-le auf-ge-klär-te In-tel-li-genz Eu-ro-pas)
   
9. das neue Regierungsviertel
   

Step 2: Perform the Dialog

Open up the Dialog in a new window and read at a normal pace, paying attention to pronouncing every word as well as you can. 

2. Grammar Writing Task

In your ongoing Zoom conference, one group member will create a clean copy of the Kapitel 8 Woche 8 Google Doc Worksheet (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) Links to an external site. and share it with the rest of the group (to do so, one group member will click Share at the top right of the document, then type in their group members names and click Done). The group will then complete this shared worksheet together during the meeting so that your instructor can assess your individual preparedness and collaborative effort (see grading rubric below).

Review the Kapitel 8 Week 8 grammar topics before doing this group work so that you are prepared to review your classmates' work and help each other correct any errors:     

• Introduction to Subordinate Clauses and dass-Clauses
• Relative Clauses

Use this Grammar Cruncher for this chapter to access chapter vocabulary, forms, and English definitions:

Students should do their best in their sentences to practice the 1st person (ich, wir), 2nd person (du, ihr, Sie), and 3rd person forms of verbs.

If you are assigned to ask questions in a given exercise, practice here as well using 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person perspectives, switching as logically needed when using 1st and 2nd person forms, for example: answer a “du” question with “ich”; an "ich" question with "du" or "Sie"; an “ihr” question with “wir”; a "wir" question with " ihr" or "Sie" or even "wir" (assuming other than the questioner in a given collective has the answer!); etc. Try to use as many different words and combinations as possible. 

Check all of your work as a group for correctness!

When you are finished, designate a group member to save the Google Doc Worksheet with all your individual work in it and upload it into this assignment before the deadline (it will be most practical and straightforward if the meeting host does this).

3. Initial Preparation for Kapitel 7-8 Online Skit

Click here for the information about Online Skits.

Each member of the group should participate knowledgeably, actively, and constructively, enabling progress to be made in this planning session such that the completion of a coherent and entertaining Online Skit for your group should be possible without great difficulty in the final groupwork session next week when the Skit will be due. "Progress" ideally means the definition of a situation for the final version of the skit, as well as approximate definitions of what roles the different group members will be playing in it, approximately what they will be saying, and which backgrounds you will be using depending on your Skit format and concept. 

You can share and use your Chapter 7-8 Online Skit Worksheet Links to an external site. (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.) to preserve this preparatory work for next time

Zoom Conference Instructions

How to Create/Host or Join a Zoom Conference:

1. Group needs to pick a time to meet
2. Make sure your group has chosen a meeting host
3. Meeting host needs to go to Zoom at ufl.zoom.us (Links to an external site.) and follow these steps:

• click UFL sign in
• Copy personal meeting room ID and share with group members
• Everyone clicks that link at the meeting time
• Meeting host clicks Record to Cloud when everyone is present.
• When you are finished, meeting host clicks End Meeting

View Zoom Tutorial Video

To submit your recording and group work:

1. Meeting host will receive an email link with the Zoom cloud recording
2. Paste the above URL link into your Google Doc Worksheet at the designated place.
3. Copy and paste the content of your Google Doc Worksheet into a Word or PDF document and upload the latter into this assignment before the deadline.

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