The Basics
In the first Lifelong Learning course “The Basics”, you learned a lot in terms of pronunciation, listening comprehension and language production.
We covered the grammar topics below from chapter 1 to 11 in our textbook. Click on the bold links for the class handouts as word.docs. When you click on the blue “view” button, the document will be displayed in HTML format, not the best way to view some of the handouts.
Chapter 1
- personal pronouns
- word order (finite verb>second position) in statements (main clauses) and questions with question words (=information questions)
Chapter 2
- verb endings in the present tense
Chapter 3
- word order in Yes or No questions
Chapter 4
- addressing people: formal and informal YOU
Chapter 5
- gender: masculine, feminine, neuter
- definite articles: der, die, das = the
- indefinite articles: ein, eine, ein = a, an
Handout: gender, articles, personal pronouns, verb endings, the verb haben
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
- the accusative case (which corresponds with the direct object in English)
Handouts: a) cases-of-nouns, b) personal pronouns in nominative and accusative case
Chapter 8
- more plural forms of nouns
- word order in statements, when e.g. time or place takes the first position
Chapter 9
- stem-vowel changing verbs (nehmen>nimmt, fahren>fährt)
- position of gern
Handout, 2 pages: stem-vowel changing verbs
Chapter 10
- word order>separable prefix verbs
Chapter 11
- modal-auxiliary-verbs
- preposition in for position and direction
Poems we read (will be added in a few days)
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