Course Description

Welcome to Dr. Bogard's German Writing Course

If you need to be able to write well enough in German to create an essay, an interview, a speech, an advertisement, a blog or any other such text, this course will give you those skills so that you can get earn that passing grade or seize the great opportunity you have your eye on.

This is a complete, university level course that includes one free hour of personalized writing feedback and grammar coding on your first writing task! Another bonus is the extra 5 writing tasks that are included, so you can go through the course 5 more times, with 5 new writing assignments, but for the price of one.

You CAN learn to write correctly about intelligent topics, when you learn German with Dr. Eva Bogard.

The theme we are following in this course is "Media in Germany"

Enroll in the Time To Learn German Academy by clicking the "Buy" button you see at the bottom of this page.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter 1 Introductions

  • 2

    Chapter 2 Set Up for Success

  • 3

    Chapter 3 Course Topic: German Radio

    • Video: Climb a Radio Tower and Get a Great View of Germany- Web Link

    • Video: Climb a Radio Tower and Get a Great View of Germany

    • Video: One of the Most Famous Radio Announcements Ever Heard in Germany- Web Link

    • Video: One of the Most Famous Radio Announcements Ever Heard in Germany

    • Video: RMBA Radio Berlin (the building of a station in Berlin)- Web Link

    • Video: RMBA Radio Berlin (the building of a station in Berlin)

    • Video: Wir bauen ein Radio- Web Link (a segment from the most popular children's show-just listen and watch)

    • Video: Wir bauen ein Radio
  • 4

    Chapter 4 Vocabulary Words Are Your Building Blocks

    • Handout: Use 6 Cohesive Devices in Every Writing Task

    • Handout: Cohesive, Transition and Connector Words by Function

    • Handout: Learn A Couple German Idioms

    • Quizlet Links (Demonstrate Your Knowledge of 4 Idioms & 4 Cohesive Phrases)

    • Handout: How to do the Leitner Flashcard Game

    • Video: Procedures for the daily 10 minute Leitner Flashcard Game

    • Video: The Top 20 Tips- Listen & Learn German Pronunciation

  • 5

    Chapter 5 Course Topic: The German Press

    • Video: The Decline of Newspapers in Germany- Web Link

    • Video: The Decline of Newspapers in Germany

    • Text: All German Newspapers (List with Links)

    • Text: Here is a Preview of Your Assigned Vocabulary Words
  • 6

    Chapter 6 Grammar Rules Allow You to Organize Your Vocabulary

    • Text Lecture: It's Time for Grammar

    • Quiz: Are Your Ready for Grammar?

    • Text: Introduction to Busuu.com

    • Video: How To Sign Up at Busuu
  • 7

    Chapter 7 Articles: Everything You Need to Know

    • Text Lecture: Introduction to Articles

    • Video: What You Need to Know About Articles

    • Handout: Hard Copy of Articles PowerPoint

    • Handout: How to Guess the Correct Gender of a Noun

    • Video: Meet the Gender Creatures

    • Quiz: Articles

  • 8

    Chapter 8 Practice and Memorize These Vocabulary Words: Set 1

    • Video: News in Germany vs. USA- Web Link

    • Video: News in Germany vs. USA

    • Video: This is What the News Looks Like on German TV- Web Link

    • Video: This is What the News Looks Like on German TV

    • Link to Medien Vocabulary

    • Handout: Flashcards 7.3 (1-2000) Medien

    • Practice Test: 7.3 (1-2000)

    • Preview of the 3 Vocabulary Tests in this Course
  • 9

    Chapter 9 Nouns: Everything You Need to Know

    • Text: Introduction to Nouns

    • Video: What You Need to Know About Nouns

    • Handout: Hard Copy of Nouns PowerPoint

    • Quiz: Nouns

    • Video: Use the "Monster Chart" to Figure out the German Cases

    • Handout: Green Monster Chart (front)

    • Quiz: Monster Chart (part 1)

    • Test: Monster Chart Challenge (part 1)

    • For Fun: Do These German Sentences Look The Same To You?
  • 10

    Chapter 10 Practice and Memorize These Vocabulary Words: Set 2

    • Video: Top 10 German TV Shows- Web Link

    • Video: Top 10 German TV Shows

    • Video: TV in Germany- Web Link

    • Video: TV in Germany

    • Video: An Intro to German TV Shows and Movies- Web Link

    • Video: An Intro to German TV Shows and Movies

    • Video: What It's Like Watching an American TV Show Dubbed in German-Web Link

    • Video: What It's Like Watching an American TV Show Dubbed in German

    • Link to Advanced Medien Vocabulary

    • Handout: Flashcards 7.3 (2001-4000) Medien

    • Practice Test: 7.3 (2001-4000)

    • Reminder of the 3 Vocabulary Tests in this Course (on classmarker.com)
  • 11

    Chapter 11 Adjectives: Everything You Need to Know

    • Text: Introduction to Adjectives

    • Video: What You Need to Know About Adjectives

    • Handout: Adjective PowerPoint Slides

    • Quiz: Adjectives Lesson

    • Video: Time Out for a Motivational Moment: German Castles
  • 12

    Chapter 12 Practice and Memorize These Vocabulary Words: Set 3

    • Video: Understand the "Freedom of the Press" in the United States

    • Video: Freedom of the Press in Germany

    • Video: Protest in Berlin Against the Death of Freedom of the Press

    • Video: Pressefreiheit auf Deutsch Erklärt

    • Link to Presse Vocabulary

    • Handout: Flashcards for "die Presse"

    • Practice Test: die Presse

    • Reminder of the 3 Vocabulary Tests in this Course (on classmarker.com)
  • 13

    Chapter 13 Pronouns: Everything You Need to Know

    • Text: Introduction to Pronouns

    • Video: You Don't Need To Memorize

    • Video: What You Need to Know About Pronouns

    • Handout: Pronouns PowerPoint Slides

    • Quiz: Pronouns Lecture
  • 14

    Chapter 14 Practice and Memorize These Vocabulary Words: Set 4

    • Video: Edeka 'Super Geil' Commercial in the News (first appeared in 2014)

    • Video: The Original Supergeil Commercial (2014)

    • Video: Lufthansa Ad (This Is Germany's National Airline)

    • Link to Advertising Vocabulary (beginner level)

    • Practice Test: Advertising (beginner level)

    • Link to Werbung Vocabulary (advanced level)

    • Handout: Flashcards for Advertising and Werbung (combined)

    • Practice Test: die Werbung (advanced level)
  • 15

    Chapter 15 Verbs: Everything You Need to Know

    • Text: Introduction to German Verbs

    • Video: What You Need to Know about Verb Conjugations

    • Handout: Verb Conjugations PowerPoint Slides

    • Quiz: Verb Conjugation

    • Video: What You Need to Know about the Present Tense + "seit"

    • Quiz: Present tense + seit

    • Video: What You Need to Know about "Haben" & "Sein"

    • Quiz: Haben & Sein

    • Video: What You Need to Know about "Magnificient" Modal Verbs

    • Quiz: Modal Verbs

    • Video: What You Need to Know about "zu" + Infinitive Verb

    • Quiz: "zu + infinitive"

    • Video: What You Need to Know about Reflexive Verbs

    • Quiz: Reflexive Verbs

    • Text: Time Out from Grammar: Learn a German Dance Song

    • Video: Watch Germans Do This Dance at Karneval

    • Video: What You Need to Know about Separable Prefix Verbs

    • Quiz: Separable Prefix Verbs

    • Video: What You Need to Know about Commands

    • Quiz: Commands

    • Video: What You Need to Know about the Simple Past Tense

    • Quiz: Simple Past Tense

    • Video: What You Need to Know about Word Order

    • Quiz: Word Order

    • Video: What You Need to Know about the Conversational Past Tense

    • Quiz: Conversational Past Tense

    • Video: Learn to Tell a Joke

    • Audio: Just the Joke at Native Speed

    • TIME FOR A GRADEBOOK TEST- ONLY FOR CREDIT EARNING STUDENTS

    • Test Instruction Sheet (Only for Students Earning School Credit)
  • 16

    Chapter 16 Practice and Memorize These Vocabulary Words: Set 5

    • Video: Best German Movies vs. Best US Movies

    • Video: Difference Between Movie Ratings

    • Video: Some Hollywood Actors Are German

    • Video: Best German Actors in Hollywood

    • Link to Film Vocabulary

    • Handout: Flashcards for Film

    • Practice Test: Film

    • Video: Difference Between Movie Ratings

    • Video: Difference Between Movie Ratings

    • Reminder of the 3 Vocabulary Tests in this Course (on classmarker.com)
  • 17

    Chapter 17 Adverbs: Everything You Need to Know

    • Text: Introduction to Adverbs

    • Video: What You Need to Know about Adverbs

    • Handout: Adverbs PowerPoint Slides

    • Quiz: Adverbs

    • TIME FOR A GRADEBOOK TEST- ONLY FOR CREDIT EARNING STUDENTS

    • Test Instruction Sheet- Only for Students Earning School Credit
  • 18

    Chapter 18 Practice and Memorize These Vocabulary Words: Set 6

    • Video: Facebook in Deutschland

    • Link to Social Media Vocabulary

    • Handout: Flashcards Social Media

    • Practice Test: Social Media
  • 19

    Chapter 19 Prepositions: Everything You Need to Know

    • Text: Introduction to Prepositions

    • Video: What You Need to Know about Prepositions

    • Handout: Prepositions PowerPoint Slides

    • Quiz: Prepositions

    • Audio: Accusative Preposition song

    • Audio: Two-way Preposition song

    • Audio: Dative Preposition song

    • This is how I learned Der Blaue Donau (from the Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes Saturday morning cartoons in the 70s)

    • Audio: Genitive Preposition Song

    • Text: Dr. Bogard's YouTube Recommendation for German Culture
  • 20

    Chapter 20 Informier Dich Video über Medien

    • Topic List for Media

    • Text mit Video Link: Was sind Medien?

    • Video: Watch for interesting facial expressions...
  • 21

    Chapter 21 Conjunctions: Everything you Need to Know

    • Text: Introduction to Conjunctions

    • Video: What You Need to Know about Conjunctions

    • Handout: Conjunctions PowerPoint Slides

    • Quiz: Conjunctions
  • 22

    Chapter 22 Informier Dich Videos

    • Text mit Video Link: Social Media einfach erklärt
  • 23

    Chapter 23 The Mechanics of German Writing

    • Video: What You Need to Know About the Mechanics of German Writing

    • Handout: Mechanics Presentation Slides

    • Video: The Comma Rules

    • Quiz: The Mechanics of the German Language
  • 24

    Chapter 24 Informier Dich Video

    • Text mit Video Links: die Zukunft

    • IT'S NOW TIME FOR A GRADEBOOK TEST- ONLY FOR CREDIT EARNING STUDENTS

    • Testing Instruction Sheet - Only for Students Earning School Credit

    • ​Official Vocabulary Test on Social Media Vocab for Students Earning a Grade
  • 25

    Chapter 25 The Advanced Monster Chart

    • Video: Advanced "Monster Chart" Grammar Lesson (30 minutes!)

    • Handout: Advanced Side of the Grammar Monster Chart
  • 26

    Chapter 26 Informier Dich Videos

    • Text mit Video Links: Bekannter Youtuber

    • Angela Merkel Interview (von LeFloid)
  • 27

    Chapter 27 Vocabulary + Grammar + Format = Writing Competency

    • Video: A Tour of Many Different Types of Texts You May Need To Write

    • Handout: Text Types
  • 28

    Chapter 28 Motivation Break

    • Handout: Writing Humor
  • 29

    Chapter 29 This is How You Will Become A Competent Writer in German

    • Handout: Overview of the 6 Step Writing Process

    • Video: Explanation of the 6 Step Writing Process

    • Infographic: Overview of the IB Writing Process
  • 30

    Chapter 30 Write Your First Draft (reach the word count within 90 minutes)

    • TIME TO DO IT: Your 90 Minute Timed Writing Starts Here with the Prompts *Print This Paper In Class, Staple To The Bottom Of Your Timed Draft
  • 31

    Chapter 31 Fix Your Draft using the List of 25 Most Common Errors

    • Handout: A List of the 25 Most Common Writing Errors

    • Video: Add at least one appropriate German idiom where it fits best.

    • Add HOLY GRAIL Sentence Starters To Ten Of Your Sentences
  • 32

    Chapter 32 While You Wait for Feedback

    • Text: Play with Your Vocabulary Words on Quizlet
  • 33

    Chapter 33 Color Code

    • Handout: How To Color Code and Label Parts of Speech

    • Handout: Color Code Grammar Tips
  • 34

    Chapter 34 Code Your Errors & Take Inventory & Write a Report

    • Text: How To Create Your Errors Report

    • Handout: Self-Correcting Grammar Codes

    • Handout: Tally Sheet

    • Handout: Example of a Completed Errors Report
  • 35

    Chapter 35 Finishing Your Writing Project

    • Handout: Written Production Scoring Rubrics

    • Handout: Cover Sheet

    • How to Graduate from this Course

    • Handout: How To Convert an IB Essay Score To an IB Predicted Score & a Percentage Out of 100 Points

State Certified German Teacher For 30 Years

Dr. Bogard

The owner and creator of the Time To Learn German website is Eva Bogard, Ph.D. She was born in Manhattan (NYC) to a German mother and a German-American father. She earned her bachelor's degree in foreign languages at snowy SUNY-Oswego and completed her graduate studies in Second Language Education and Instructional Technology at sunny USF-Tampa, where she earned her Master's and Doctorate degrees. She has spent several colorful summers in France enjoying the language and culture in Paris, St. Malo and Tours, but is usually found during her long summer breaks on the beach in Florida, or in the mountains of southwest Germany. Professionally, she is very interested in online hybrid education, especially using instructional technology in both her classroom and online courses to teach foreign languages. Eva is an International Baccalaureate teacher, and a Montessori education enthusiast. She has taught German, French and Spanish, as well as, Information Technology and Business Management over the last 30 years.

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