In this online course you will learn …

… to understand articles in newspapers and magazines and write reports. And to talk about childhood memories and other things in the past. At the end of the course, you will be able to understand and give advice on health issues, express your opinion, and agree and disagree with others.

To do these things, you will study …

Grammar

  • Verbs in the past tense: tanken – tankte, lassen – ließ, bringen – brachte, …
  • Conjunctions “als, obwohl“: Als ich 6 Jahre alt war, … . Obwohl es mir keinen Spaß macht, lerne ich …

  • Past perfect: Ich hatte zwar viel trainiert, war aber noch nicht fit.

  • Intensifiers: “echt, ziemlich“: Die Serie ist echt langweilig.

  • Relative pronouns and relative sentences: Der Film, der einen Preis bekommen hat, …
  • Passive voice-present tense with auxiliary verbs: Auf gesunde Ernährung sollte geachtet werden.

Vocabulary

  • Entertainment and the media: die Serie, der Titel, der Artikel, der Bericht, …
  • Childhood and personal life experiences: verliebt sein, das Leben, das Standesamt, …
  • Health: der Magen, ausreichend Schlaf, das Fett, …

… and much more.

Requirements

You can already talk about travel and explain where things are: auf, in, am …. You can politely ask about something in the past.

To participate in the course, you need a computer, tablet or just a smartphone, a stable internet connection and a microphone and camera if they are not built into the device you are using.