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• Basics of German grammar
• Modern German vocabulary
• German pronunciation guide
• German reading exercises
• German economic information
• Common German expressions
• Review exercises
• Complete answer key
• German-English dictionary
Meet the German Language | p. 1 |
German and English belong to the same family of languages | |
Related German and English words | |
German is not difficult to pronounce and spell | |
A preview of some interesting features of German | |
German Letters and Sounds in Words and Sentences | p. 5 |
The vowels a, e, i, o, u | |
The consonants | |
The vowel combinations au, ei, eu | |
The modified vowels a, o, u | |
Front ch, back ch | |
Final g | |
The German alphabet | |
The German letter ss | |
Summary of letters and sounds | |
Die Familie Clark / The Clark Family | p. 14 |
The family (die Familie) | |
Gender of nouns | |
Definite article and noun in the nominative case | |
Agreement of third-person pronouns | |
Asking somebody's name | |
Herr Clark Ist Hungrig / Mr. Clark is Hungry | p. 19 |
The indefinite article ein, kein | |
Some German verb endings | |
The negative nicht | |
The formation of questions | |
Wer Ist Herr Clark? / Who is Mr. Clark? | p. 23 |
Noun plurals | |
Common professions | |
Present tense of gehen | |
Three ways of saying you | |
Familiar verbs like gehen in the present tense | |
Question words | |
Asking somebody's age | |
Frau Clark Geht Einkaufen / Mrs. Clark Goes Shopping | p. 30 |
Imperative (command) forms | |
Accusative case of nouns, definite and indefinite articles, kein, wer and was | |
Feminine nouns with the ending-in | |
Asking for the price | |
Das Haus der Familie Clark / The Home of the Clark Family | p. 36 |
The one-family house (das Einfamilienhaus) | |
More noun plurals | |
Present tense of sein and haben | |
Accusative case, third-person pronouns | |
Some prepositions with the accusative case | |
Looking for a new home | |
Warum Lernt Herr Clark Deutsch? / Why is Mr. Clark Learning German? | p. 41 |
Compound nouns | |
Opposites | |
Present tense of antworten, reden, sprechen | |
Modal verb wollen | |
Word order: normal and inverted word order | |
Position of infinitives | |
Eine Deutschstunde / A German Lesson | p. 47 |
Modal verb mussen | |
Dative or "to" case of nouns, articles and kein | |
Some common verbs that may take indirect objects | |
Dative of third person pronouns and of wer | |
Dative prepositions | |
Wo Wohnt die Familie Clark? / Where Does the Clark Family Live? | p. 54 |
Expressions of "liking" with gern and lieber | |
Es gibt there is, there are | |
Present tense of laufen, fahren | |
Prepositions with the dative or accusative | |
Da(r) and wo(r) combinations | |
What a mess! | |
Das Geheimnis des Herrn Clark / The Secret of Mr. Clark | p. 61 |
Genitive case | |
The use of von in place of the genitive | |
The interrogative wessen | |
Prepositions with the genitive case | |
Present tense of kennen and of wissen | |
Review of Chapters 1-11 | p. 67 |
Summary: Nouns, verbs, prepositions (dative, dative or accusative, accusative, genitive) | |
German expressions | |
Vocabulary exercises | |
Grammar review and exercises: noun declensions, all cases; masculine nouns with -n or -en endings | |
Compound nouns | |
Dialogues | |
Wo ist die Thomasstrasse? | |
Wo halt der Bus an? | |
Lesestucke | |
Herr Clark lernt Deutsch | |
Die Deutschsprachigen Lander: Deutschland, Osterreich und Schweiz | |
Ein Freund Besucht Herrn Clark / A Friend Visits Mr. Clark | p. 76 |
Present tense of lesen, treten | |
Possessive adjectives (ein-words) | |
Packing a suitcase | |
Herr Clark Telefoniert / Mr. Clark Makes a Phone Call | p. 83 |
Infinitives used as nouns | |
Numerals 1 to 100 | |
Present tense of konnen, tun | |
Der-words: dieser, jener, jeder, welcher, aller | |
Making phone calls | |
Dollar und Euro / Dollars and Euros | p. 90 |
The European currency | |
Numerals over 100 | |
Arithmetic | |
Subordinate word order | |
Subordinating conjunctions dass, wenn | |
Coordinating conjunctions und, aber, oder, denn | |
Talking about prices | |
Frau Clark geht mit ihren Kindern einkaufen / Mrs. Clark Goes Shopping with her Children | p. 96 |
Clothes | |
The "Do-er" | |
Present tense of tragen, lassen | |
About adjective endings | |
Adjectives preceded by a der-word | |
Adjectives preceded by an ein-word | |
Adjectives preceded by neither a der-word nor an ein-word | |
Colors | |
Wie Spat Ist Es? / What Time Is It? | p. 102 |
Travelling | |
Expressions of satisfaction or approval | |
Dieser the latter, jener the former | |
Travel expressions | |
Time of day | |
The 24-hour clock | |
Separable verbs, present tense | |
First and second person pronouns (nominative, dative, accusative) | |
Review of Chapters 13-17 | p. 108 |
Summary: Nouns, verbs, German expressions | |
Vocabulary exercises | |
Grammar review and exercises: Summary of adjective endings; summary of first-, second- and third-person pronouns (nominative, dative and accusative) | |
Dialogues | |
Ihre Uhr geht nach | |
Wo muss ich aussteigen? | |
Lesestuck: Karl lernt nicht gern Mathematik | |
Der Arbeitstag des Herrn Clark / Mr. Clark's Working Day | p. 115 |
Some foods | |
The present tense of nehmen, durfen | |
Reflexive verbs, present tense of sich setzen | |
Some common reflexive verbs | |
Reflexive pronouns in the dative | |
Separable verbs in subordinate clauses | |
Die kleine Anna war krank / Little Anne Was Sick | p. 123 |
Present tense of schlafen, sollen | |
Regular and irregular verbs in English | |
The past tense of weak (regular) verbs in German | |
Some familiar weak verbs, present and past | |
Past tense of strong (irregular) verbs | |
Some familiar strong verbs, present and past | |
Some expressions referring to past time | |
A fairy tale: Rotkappchen | |
Was fur ein Schreckliches Wetter! / What Horrible Weather! | p. 129 |
Expressions of weather | |
Some familiar separable verbs (present and past) | |
The position of the separable prefix of verbs (present and past) in simple sentences and main clauses | |
Position of separable verbs in subordinate clauses | |
Hin and her | |
More subordinating conjunctions | |
Wann, wenn, als | |
Der April Macht Was Er Will / April Does What it Wants | p. 136 |
The seasons | |
The months of the year | |
Gern, lieber, am liebsten | |
Present tense of werden, mogen | |
Inseparable verbs | |
Verbs that take a dative object | |
Ein Besuch fur Herrn Clark / A Visit for Mr. Clark | p. 143 |
Present and past tense of essen | |
The relative pronouns | |
Wo(r) combinations used for relative pronouns with prepositions | |
Wer and was as relative pronouns | |
Call My Bluff | |
Review of Chapters 19-23 | p. 149 |
Summary: Verbs (present and past) | |
German expressions | |
Vocabulary exercises | |
Grammar review and exercises: modal auxiliaries, present tense; modal auxiliaries, past tense; subordinate word order; expressions of definite time and duration of time | |
Dialogues | |
Zwei Freunde begegnen sich auf der Strasse | |
Ich habe Hunger | |
Lesestuck: Herr Clark war krank | |
Familie Clark Geht ins Kino / The Clark Family Goes to the Movies | p. 158 |
Cinema expressions | |
Ordinal numerals | |
Dates | |
Die Wiedervereinigung Deutschlands / The Reunification of the Two Germanies | p. 163 |
The present perfect tense ("Perfekt") | |
Formation of the past participle | |
The principal parts of verbs | |
Use of the past and present perfect tenses | |
Ein typisches Wochenende bei den Clarks / A Typical Weekend at the Clarks' | p. 169 |
Imperative of sein | |
The past perfect tense | |
Past participle of verbs ending in -ieren | |
Verbs with the auxiliary sein | |
The principal parts of some sein-verbs | |
Herr Muller Erzahlt von Sich Selbst / Mr. Muller Tells About Himself | p. 176 |
Some very special verbs with the auxiliary sein | |
Indirect questions with wie, wo, wann, wer, was, warum | |
The present and past perfect tenses in subordinate clauses | |
Herr Clark Schreibt einen Brief an Seinen Geschaftspartner in Munchen / Mr. Clark Writes A Letter to His Business Partner in Munich | p. 181 |
Formal letters: date, beginning, closing | |
The future tense | |
The present tense with future meaning | |
The future tense in subordinate clauses | |
Hobbies | |
Review of Chapters 25-29 | p. 186 |
Summary: Verbs, German expressions | |
Vocabulary exercises | |
Grammar review and exercises: Present, past, present perfect, past perfect and future tenses; the subordinate word order of verbs in the present perfect, past perfect, and future; summary of subordinating conjunctions | |
Vier Dialoge | |
Lesestucke | |
Frau Clark hat Geburtstag | |
Ein toller Film im Kino | |
Herr Clark Erhalt eine Antwort auf Seinen Brief / Mr. Clark Receives an Answer to His Letter | p. 191 |
Related words | |
Mixed verbs | |
The infinitive with zu | |
The infinitive without zu | |
Die Geographie von Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz / The Geography of Germany, Austria and Switzerland | p. 197 |
Expressions of geography | |
Imperative in the first-person plural | |
Comparison of adjectives | |
Some adjectives irregular in comparison | |
Case endings in the comparative and superlative | |
Sights in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland | |
Die Deutsche Kuche / German Cooking | p. 203 |
The am -sten form of the superlative of adjectives | |
Comparison of adverbs | |
A recipe: Apfelkuchen | |
Welche Stadte Werden Sie Besuchen, Herr Clark? / What Cities Will You Visit, Mr. Clark? | p. 209 |
The future tense of modal auxiliaries | |
The future perfect tense | |
Making predictions | |
Herr Clark Reist Nach Deutschland Ab / Mr. Clark Sets out for Germany | p. 214 |
Two word families | |
About the verbs lassen and verlassen | |
Map of Germany | |
Review of Chapters 31-35 | p. 219 |
Summary: Verbs (principal parts), German expressions | |
Vocabulary exercises | |
Grammar review and exercises: Case endings for the comparative and superlative of adjectives | |
Five tenses of verbs | |
Dialogues | |
Deutsche oder amerikanische Filme? | |
Im Restaurant | |
Modernes Lesestuck: Frau Clark shoppt im Internet | |
Ankunft in Munchen / Arrival in Munich | p. 224 |
Am Flughafen At the Airport | |
Willkommen in Deutschland Welcome to Germany | |
The present participle used as an adjective | |
More sein-verbs | |
Herr Clark Besucht die Familie Schiller / Mr. Clark Visits the Schiller Family | p. 230 |
Ein Telefongesprach A Telephone Conversation | |
Eine Vorstellung An Introduction | |
Prepositions with special meanings after certain verbs | |
Ein Ausflug an den Ammersee / An Excursion to the Ammersee | p. 236 |
Automobile terms | |
Informal letters: beginnings, endings | |
More strong verbs, principal parts | |
Principal parts of modals | |
The double infinitive | |
The double infinitive with lassen, sehen, horen | |
Herr Clark Verlasst Deutschland / Mr. Clark Leaves Germany | p. 242 |
Summary of German word order in simple sentences and main clauses | |
Summary of word order in subordinate clauses | |
Review of Chapters 37-40 | p. 247 |
Summary: Verbs, German expressions | |
Vocabulary exercises | |
Dialogue | |
An der Tankstelle At the Gas Station | |
Lesestucke | |
Das deutsche Fernsehen | |
Herrn Clarks Rheinreise | |
Brief an einen Freund in Chicago / Letter to a Friend in Chicago | p. 252 |
About the subjunctive | |
The present subjunctive | |
The past subjunctive | |
The present perfect and past perfect subjunctive | |
The wurde-form | |
Use of the subjunctive in conditional sentences | |
Word order in conditional sentences | |
Omission of wenn | |
Daydreaming: Wenn ich ... | |
Bericht eines Gesprachs zwischen Herrn Clark und Herrn Muller / Report of a Conversation Between Mr. Clark and Mr. Muller | p. 259 |
The subjunctive in indirect discourse | |
Was Geschieht im Hotel? / What Happens in the Hotel? | p. 264 |
Answer Section | p. 269 |
German-English Vocabulary | p. 287 |
English-German Vocabulary | p. 299 |
Communication Games | p. 306 |
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ISBN: 9780767918602
ISBN-10: 0767918606
Series: Made Simple
Published: 1st January 2006
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 320
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Country of Publication: US
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 26.0 x 19.9 x 2.0
Weight (kg): 0.75
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