Der Weg zum Lesen

378 Pages·1986·3.32 MB·German; English

by  Van Horn Vail, Kimberly Sparks

Der Weg zum Lesen
THIRD EDITION

D er Weg
zu m Lesen
THIRD EDITION
Van Horn Vail
Middlebury College
Kimberly Sparks
Middlebury College
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ISBN: 0-15-517351-0
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 85-81182
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Contents
Introduction....................................................................................ix
Kurz vor Feierabend
Günter de Bruyn................................................................... 3
Introductory Exercises................................................................ 6
Synthetic Exercises...................................................................... 9
Express in German................................................................... 11
Questions.................................................................................... 13
Das Kartenspiel
Peter Bichsel......................................................................... 17
Introductory Exercises.............................................................. 20
Synthetic Exercises................................................................... 22
Express in German................................................................... 24
Questions.................................................................................... 25
Der Milchmann
Peter Bichsel......................................................................... 27
Introductory Exercises.............................................................. 30
Synthetic Exercises................................................................... 32
Express in German................................................................... 34
Questions.................................................................................... 35
Die Tochter
Peter Bichsei......................................................................... 39
Introductory Exercises............................................................. 42
Synthetic Exercises................................................................... 44
Express in German................................................................... 46
Questions.................................................................................... 48
Mittagspause
Wolf Wondratschek........................................................... 51
Introductory Exercises............................................................. 54
Synthetic Exercises................................................................... 57
Express in German................................................................... 59
Questions.................................................................................... 60
Kräftig essen
Helga Novak......................................................................... 63
Introductory Exercises............................................................. 66
Synthetic Exercises................................................................... 69
Express in German................................................................... 71
Questions.................................................................................... 73
Das verliehene Buch
Hermann Harry Schmitz.................................................. 77
Introductory Exercises............................................................. 84
Synthetic Exercises................................................................... 88
Express in German................................................................... 91
Questions.................................................................................... 94
Das Brot
Wolfgang Borchert............................................................. 97
Introductory Exercises................................................................102
Synthetic Exercises......................................................................104
Express in German......................................................................105
Questions.......................................................................................106
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Der hellgraue Frühjahrsmantel
Wolfgang Hildesheimer........................................................109
Introductory Exercises................................................................116
Synthetic Exercises......................................................................120
Express in German......................................................................122
Questions.......................................................................................124
Der Stift
Heinrich Spoerl......................................................................127
Introductory Exercises................................................................132
Synthetic Exercises......................................................................134
Express in German......................................................................136
Questions.......................................................................................137
Es steht geschrieben
Hans Daiber...........................................................................141
Introductory Exercises................................................................146
Synthetic Exercises......................................................................149
Express in German......................................................................152
Questions.......................................................................................154
Der Diebstahl
Heinz Risse..............................................................................157
Introductory Exercises................................................................172
Synthetic Exercises......................................................................179
Express in German......................................................................184
Questions.......................................................................................188
Die unwürdige Greisin
Bertolt Brecht.........................................................................193
Introductory Exercises................................................................204
Synthetic Exercises.....................................................................209
Express in German.....................................................................212
Questions......................................................................................214
Vll
Vor dem Gesetz
Franz Kafka.........................................................................219
Synthetic Exercises......................................................................222
Express in German......................................................................223
Questions.......................................................................................224
Geschichte von Isidor
Max Frisch............................................................................227
Synthetic Exercises......................................................................234
Express in German......................................................................236
Cue-sheet....................................................................................239
Der Augsburger Kreidekreis
Bertolt Brecht......................................................................243
Cue-sheet....................................................................................268
Es wird etwas geschehen
Heinrich Böll.........................................................................277
Cue-sheet....................................................................................288
Questions.......................................................................................290
Wer ist man?
Kurt Kusenberg...................................................................293
Cue-sheet....................................................................................302
Questions.......................................................................................304
Strong and Irregular Verbs........................................................307
Vocabulary....................................................................................315
Introduction
Der Weg zum Lesen is designed to help instructors and students over
one of the most difficult hurdles in language instruction-the transition
from working through lessons in a grammar book to reading unedited
literary texts. A grammar book is necessarily compartmentalized; the
students work in a tightly controlled atmosphere, concentrating on one or
two points at a time. In the parlance of the beginner, the students “had” the
modals last month, are “having” the passive now, and will “have” the
subjunctive next month. Most readers, on the other hand—even elemen­
tary ones — plunge students into the random area of complete language
experience, where they are expected to function with nearly all of
German grammar on every page of text.
This book offers a positive solution to the problems of such an abrupt
transition. It offers drills that
1. teach students to function in the natural, uncompartmentalized
language of unedited texts,
2. further their active skills so that they are able to work with
progressively more difficult material, and
3. fill the class hour with meaningful exercises.
THE THIRD EDITION
The basic goals of the earlier editions of Der Weg zum Lesen remain
unchanged in this latest edition.
The major aim of this revision is to allow students to achieve these
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goals with even less effort and even greater fluency and accuracy. To this
end, the following changes have been made:
1. We have added a number of new texts, most of them at the lowest
level of difficulty, and we have provided these texts with exercises
that allow the students to move forward even more systematically
than before.
2. The more complex drill sentences have been shortened and
streamlined so that the students can perform them faster and with
greater control.
3. The cue-sheets accompanying the texts toward the end of the
book have been revised to help the students retell the stories with
minimum reliance on memory. These cue-sheets are now also
followed by cued questions that elicit slightly longer, more com­
plex answers.
DRILL TYPES
1. Introductory Exercises
The “Introductory Exercises” direct the students’ attention to one or
two problems while allowing them to see and understand how the rest of
the sentence is constructed.
Here is a sample of text with the “Introductory Exercises” derived
from it:
D er Milchmann schrieb auf einen Zettel: „Heute keine
Butter mehr, leider.“ Frau Blum las den Zettel und
rechnete zusammen, schüttelte den Kopf und rechnete
noch einmal, dann schrieb sie: „Zwei Liter, 100 Gramm Butter, Sie
hatten gestern keine Butter und berechneten sie mir gleichwohl.“
Introductory Exercises
Supply the correct forms of the verbs in parentheses. Do each sentence in
the present tense, past tense, and present perfect tense, except where
otherwise indicated.
A.
1. Der Milchmann_____________es auf einen Zettel.
(schreiben*)
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