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Grammar overview

Welcome to A1!

Lesson 1 ▪ Informal and formal (1)

Lesson 2 -
Lesson 3 ▪ Informal and formal (2)
Lesson 4 -

1 Meeting People

▪ Personal pronouns: ich, du

Lesson 1
▪ Personal pronouns: Sie
Lesson 2 -
Lesson 3 ▪ Conjugation: present tense (1)
▪ Personal pronouns: er, sie
▪ Personal pronouns: plural
Lesson 4
▪ Conjugation: present tense (2)
▪ Conjugation: haben

2 Contact details

▪ Numbers from 11 to 19
Lesson 1
▪ Numbers from 20 to 100
Lesson 2 -
▪ W-questions
Lesson 3 ▪ Prepositions of place: aus
▪ Prepositions of place: in, an
▪ Numbers over 100
▪ Numbers over 1000
Lesson 4
▪ Saying numbers
▪ Formal conversations

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3 In company

Lesson 1 -
▪ Nouns: gender
Lesson 2
▪ Question Words: wer, was
Lesson 3 ▪ Vowel change: e to i
Lesson 4 -

4 Around the world

▪ Simple past: sein

Lesson 1
▪ Prepositions of place: in, nach
Lesson 2 ▪ Questions and statements
▪ Indefinite pronouns: man
Lesson 3 ▪ Sentence construction:
statements
Lesson 4 ▪ Conjugation: sprechen

5 Things

Lesson 1 ▪ Articles: definite

▪ Articles: indefinite
▪ Indefinite or definite?
Lesson 2 ▪ Nouns: plural
▪ Conjugation: lesen
▪ Sentence construction: subject
▪ Sentence construction: accusative
Lesson 3
object
▪ Article: negation
Lesson 4 ▪ Adjectives following "sein"

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6 Living

Lesson 1 ▪ Articles (Summary)

Lesson 2 ▪ Negatives: nicht
Lesson 3 ▪ zu + adjective (1)
▪ Word formation: compounds
Lesson 4 ▪ Possesive determiners (1)

7 Days and times

▪ Time: 12-hour clock (1)

Lesson 1 ▪ Prepositions of time: um, von –
bis
▪ Separable verbs (1)
Lesson 2
▪ Adverbs: frequency (1)
Lesson 3 ▪ Prepositions of time: an
▪ Adverbs: sequence
Lesson 4
▪ Vowel change: a to ä

8 Appointments

▪ Time specification: 24-hour clock

Lesson 1 ▪ Time: 12-hour clock (2)
▪ Prepositions of time
Lesson 2 ▪ Ordinal numbers
▪ Conjugation: können
Lesson 3
▪ Time: dies-/nächst-
Lesson 4 ▪ Simple past: haben

9 Working Life

▪ Word formation: professions

Lesson 1
▪ Possessive determiners (2)
Lesson 2 ▪ Modal verbs

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▪ Multi-part predicates
▪ The dative
Lesson 3
▪ Two-case prepositions (1)
▪ Modal verbs: wollen
Lesson 4
▪ Modal verbs: the meaning

10 Orientation

▪ Prepositions: bei, von

Lesson 1 ▪ Prepositions of place: in, an
(Repeat)
▪ Prepositions of place (1)
Lesson 2
▪ The formal imperative
Lesson 3 ▪ Prepositions: mit
Lesson 4 ▪ Two-case prepositions (2)

11 Eating and leisure

▪ Negation: nicht/kein
Lesson 1 ▪ Nominative and accusative
(Summary)
▪ Comparative (1)
Lesson 2 ▪ Conjugation: mögen
▪ Question words: welch-
▪ Comparison: wie/als
Lesson 3 ▪ Separable verbs (2)
▪ Adverbs: frequency (2)
▪ gehen + infinitive
Lesson 4 ▪ Yes-no questions and W-
questions (Repeat)

12 Food

Lesson 1 ▪ Instructions: in, auf

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Lesson 2 -
Lesson 3 ▪ Question words: wie viel
Lesson 4 ▪ Instructions

13 Weather and holiday

▪ Present perfect with "haben"

Lesson 1 ▪ Past participles: regular
▪ Simple past or present perfect?
▪ Comparison (2)
Lesson 2 ▪ Comparison: wie/als (Repeat)
▪ Time: seasons
▪ Present perfect with "sein"
Lesson 3 ▪ Past participle: irregular
▪ Past participle: separable
Lesson 4 ▪ Pronouns: es

14 Clothing

Lesson 1 ▪ Adjective declension (1)

▪ Question words: welch- (Repeat)
Lesson 2
▪ Demonstrative: dies-
▪ Verbs with a dative object (1)
Lesson 3
▪ zu + adjective (2)
Lesson 4 -

15 Family

▪ Adjective declension (2)

Lesson 1
▪ Two-case prepositions (Repeat)
▪ Personal pronouns: accusative
Lesson 2
▪ Prepositions: für

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▪ The possessive determiner

Lesson 3
(Repeat)
▪ Modal verbs: sollen (1)
Lesson 4 ▪ Sentence construction: sentence
brackets (Summary)

16 Sports and exercise

Lesson 1 ▪ Comparison (3)

▪ Time specification: Wann ...?
Lesson 2 ▪ Time specification: Wie oft ...?
▪ Time specification: Wie lange ...?
Lesson 3 ▪ Comparison (4)
Lesson 4 ▪ Imperative: informal

17 Health

Lesson 1 ▪ Müssen or sollen? (Summary)

Lesson 2 ▪ Modal verbs: dürfen
▪ Present perfect (Repeat)
▪ Present perfect: auxiliary verbs
Lesson 3
(Repeat)
▪ The past participle (Repeat)
▪ Prepositions of time: vor, nach
▪ Nominalization
▪ Modal verbs: meaning
Lesson 4
(Summary)
▪ Modal verbs: conjugation
(Summary)

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18 Home

▪ Adjective declension (Repeat)

Lesson 1 ▪ Adjective declension (Repeat)
▪ Adjective declension (Repeat)
▪ Personal pronouns: dative
Lesson 2 ▪ Verbs with a dative object (2)
▪ Prepositions + dative (Summary)
Lesson 3 -
▪ Subjunctive: Wishes (1)
Lesson 4 ▪ Subjunctive: Wishes (2)
▪ Subjunctive: Wishes (3)

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