About the Book

Table of Contents

Introduction: for the teacher
Introduction: for the student
Glossary of grammatical terms

Unit 1: Ich heiße...

• Topics
  Greeting people
  Giving a simple description of yourself
  Understanding others talking about themselves
  Handling simple numbers
  German regions and cities
  Some countries and nationalities
• Grammar
  Verbs (ich, Sie, er/sie/es forms)
  Questions
  Introduction to noun genders
  Simple numbers

Unit 2: Ich möchte bitte...

• Topics
  Simple shopping and transactions
  Use of the telephone
  Asking and giving the time
  Days and dates
• Grammar
  Verbs (wir form + du form)
  Use of nicht
  Möchte
  More numbers
• Test your knowledge

Unit 3: Wie komme ich zum...?

• Topics
  Asking for and giving directions
  Making travel arrangements
• Grammar
  Accusative case
  Present tense of strong/irregular verbs
  Separable verbs
  Comparative adjectives
  Introduction to modal verbs

Unit 4: Freizeit und Urlaub

• Topics
  Leisure pursuits
  Holidays
• Grammar
  Perfect tense of weak verbs
  dass and word order
  Adjective endings after the definite article
  Plurals of nouns
• Test your knowledge

Unit 5: Ein einzelzimmer, bitte!

• Topics
  Hotel accommodation
  Ordering food and drink
• Grammar
  Use of prepositions
  Adjective endings (indefinite article)

Unit 6: Fitness und Gesundheit

• Topics
  How to describe your state of health
  Some current health trends in Germany
• Grammar
  Perfect tense of strong verbs
  Relative pronouns
• Test your knowledge

Unit 7: Studentenleben

• Topics
  German student life
  The German University system
  Finding student accommodation
• Grammar
  Use of dieser
  Imperfect tense of weak verbs
  Use of the subjunctive (present tense)
  Use of the passive (present tense)

Unit 8: Es geht ums geld

• Topics
  Simple money transactions
  Some trends in finance and IT
• Grammar
  Future tense
  Imperfect tense: strong verbs
• Test your knowledge

Unit 9: Arbeitssuche

• Topics
  Job ads
  Applications
  Interviews
• Grammar
  Pluperfect tense
  Subjunctive (perfect and imperfect tenses)
  More about the passive
• Test your knowledge

Unit 10: Texts for Aural and Written Comprehension

German grammar reference
Vocabulary
German-English
English-German

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