German for Beginners
German Course for Beginners Part Two
PAGE UPDATED 21st February 2020
This group meets every two weeks on Wednesdays from 13:00 to 15:00 in the Friends Meeting House in Great Ayton.
March 4th and 18th
April 1st and 22nd
May 6th and 20th
June 3rd and 24th
For more information click on Pat
For our session on 18th March, we will read and complete exercises in the Coursebook. Seiten 104, 105 und 106 Übungen 25, 26 und 28
If you have time, could you listen to the remaining recordings of Lektion sechs over the next couple of weeks which cover Verabredungen.
We will continue with Chapter vier, 'Café in Berlin'.
and the songs as well, Sag mir wo die Blumen sind and Lily Marlene usw
Work covered in session on 19th February
Seite 100 Übung 18 We read through and translated Der Tagesablauf von Frau Haase
We studied the separable verbs on Page 101.
Seite 102 Übung 20 Was macht Herr Fablione?
We listened to the recording (this is on disc 1 track 54) and completed the exercise in pairs.
Homework is , prepare chapter 3 Cafe in Berlin and also have some questions prepared to ask the Group members on this chapter.
Worten für Fragen such as Wo, wer, warum, wie, wie viel, wann, wass etc
Alan Sidgewick, the Leader for the Advanced German Group will be attending our next session on March 4th and prior to this, could you prepare a short introduction about yourself. A few basic facts but also something interesting about you!
Alan will be doing some work with us.
A reminder of the online German dictionary that you may find useful:
BELOW ARE SOME USEFUL LINKS TO CAFE IN BERLIN ON YOUTUBE
If anybody finds links to the other chapters please let me have the web address and I'll put them on this page.
MICHEL THOMAS LESSONS
Another source of short lessons as recommended by Roger is that by Michel Thomas. There are 78 very short sessions covering spoken German.
To go with the recordings there is also a guide to each session as a pdf. The text for each session is on the pdf but the numbering does not always correspond exactly with the numbering of the tracks.
You can download the pdf by clicking here.
For those who could not attend the 22nd January session the section below may be of use.
Adjektive nach dem unbestimmten Artikel
Adjectives following the indefinite article (ein, eine)
maskulin - feminin - neutrum - plural – nominativ
ein alter - eine alte - ein altes - alte
akkusativ
einen alten
eine alte
ein altes
alte
Note: Adjectives do not add endings if they follow the noun
Die Kathedrale ist alt
These are the sentences describing York to the class.
Diese Stadt liegt im Norden von England, nicht weit von hier.
Es ist eine schöne alte Stadt.
Es gibt eine berühmte, mittelalterliche Kathedrale
Es gibt viele interessante Museen
Es gibt ein grosses, freies Eisenbahnmuseum. Hier findet man historische Zügen
Es gibt eine viktorianische Gasse im Schlossmuseum
Es gibt alte Stadtmauern, wo man spazieren gehen kann
Es gibt, belebte, alte, Gassen im Stadtzentrum
Es gibt einen langen Fluss und schöne Brücken
Es gibt tolle Restaurants
Es gibt ein sehr beliebtes café. Dieses Café ist immer überfullt
Es gibt ein altes Theater und auch ein modernes Theater
Es gibt einen schönen Museumgarten
Es gibt einen grossen Park
Fur Radfahrer ist es gut. Es gibt ein langes Radvekehrsnetz.
HEIMAT AUSGABE VOM 22 JANUAR
From the Aktivitaetenbuch:
Seite 49 Uebung 1 + 2
Seite 50 Uebung 3
From the Kursbuch Seite 96 Die Uhrzeit
Vokabeln (Seiten 99 und 112)
Fragen + Zeitangabe
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For those who were not able to attend the session on 8th January we covered Seite 92 , 93, 94 and completed Übungen 1,2,3,4,5
The session on 22nd January will probably start with Übung 6 on Seite 94 as a revision exercise and then Übung 7 before going on to Die Uhrzeit on Seite 96.
We also had an discussion about future sessions and it is likely that from February exercises from the Coursebook will take place up until the tea break and then afterwards we will look at 'Cafe in Berlin', possibly some games and music.
Also maybe spend some time speaking solely in German
Details of this book can be found here Cafe in Berlin
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Record of 2019 sessions
Homework for 20th November lesson
Write a paragraph on the activities that you do every week, using the words on pages 86 and 87 in the Coursebook
Activity Book, Pages 46 and 47 Übungen 1 and 2
Identify and learn the new words that we used in the little German booklet, 'Mein Bordbuch' for a vocabulary test at the beginning of the next class.
Here is a really useful link to an English/ German dictionary which has excellent pronunciations.
We meet again on Wednesday 4th December at 1pm
Homework for 6th November lesson
Activity Book
Seite 44
Übungen 4 und 5
Seite 45
Grammatik
'Wie heißt der Plural' Übung 1
Homework for the 9th of October lesson:
Übung 13 on page 61, learn Table on Possessive Pronouns on page 66, Vocabulary on page 69
Übung 15 on Seite 62 "Haben Sie Geschwister"
Could you read through this text and answer the questions in Übung 16. It's quite a useful exercise, highlighting some of the basic grammar and vocabulary we covered last Wednesday.
On the 16th October, we will be starting on Lektion fünf: ordering food and drink in a cafe, food shopping on Pages 74 onwards.
We will also be focussing on the Nominative and Accusative cases.
SUMMER BREAK HOMEWORK AND NEW TERM DATES
Please note the NEW DATES for our future Group meetings for the rest of the year:
September Wednesdays 18th and 25th
October Wednesdays 9th, 16th and 30th
November Wednesdays 6th and 20th
December Wednesdays 4th and 18th
All sessions take place from 1pm till 3pm
Frauke has given us quite a bit of revision for the next 7 weeks, reminding ourselves of what we have covered in the first Four Lessons of the Wilkommen Coursebook.
At our next Group session, we will go over some of the basics in grammar and conversations in these Lektionen such as numbers, alphabet, forming questions, verb endings in the present tense and plural forms of nouns, personal pronouns and possessives. Also it is worth listening to the CDs and DVDs.
Hopefully it's not too daunting a task but we don't have to be too perfect!!
We will start on Lektion 5 the following week
Homework after 10th July lesson
Write at least 100 words about yourself, your family, hobbies etc
Useful pages are 58-69 in the Coursebook.
Learn the verses in the songs Die Lorelei, Der Frohliche Wanderer und Ich bin Auslander. These are on the links on the right hand side of this page.
Hausaufgaben for 19th June
Seite 67 Übung 1,2,3
Seite 68 Übung 5
Lernen Sie die Vokabeln am Seite 69
Hausaufgaben for 5th June
Seite 27 Übung 2 Lesen
Read the article and write "Welche Antwort stimmt" (which answer is correct?)
Seite 29 Abschnitt B Übung 1 Eine Unfrage
Seite 31 Abschnitt C Übung 1 Welsches Wort passt (which word fits?)
Seite 32 Übung 2 positiv, negativ
This group meets every two weeks on Wednesdays from 13:00 to 15:00 in the Friends Meeting House in Great Ayton.
For more information click on Pat
The 2019 dates are as follows:
Wednesday 19th June
Wednesday 10th July
Wednesday 24th July.
The group will not be having any meetings in August.
Dates for September through to December will be circulated soon.
Follow up to 3rd April lesson
Click on the links below to hear the music of the songs. The image of the words can be seen in the links on the right of this page. You can have the words and the music at the same time if you:
Right click on the image of the song and open in a new tab. Then click on the link on the page to start to play the song. Then minimise the Youtube page and you can follow the words and song at the same time.
Our Hausaufgaben is to prepare for talking about yourself so revise the things we have learnt on the panels on these pages:
Page 14
Page 32
Page 51
Hausaufgaben (homework) after lesson on 27th March
Coursebook
Seite 76 Übung 12
Seite 77 Übung 13
Seite 78 Übung 14
Activity Book:
Seite 39 Übung 1 + 2
Hausaufgaben (homework) after lesson on 27th February
It might be useful for everybody to have the special characters for the letters with Umlauts as well as the double s symbol. Save it to your computer on a separate document and then you can copy and paste the letters as you need them.
ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß
Willkommen Activity Book
Seite 20 Grammatik (1) section 1 and section 2a)- 2e): Grammatik (2) section 1a)- 1g)
Willkommen Course book
Seite 37 Übung 4a)- 4g)
Vocabulary from 27th February lesson
ein wenig - viel = a little - a lot
dort - hier = there - here
richtig - falsch = correct - false
ziemlich = fairly
bitte - danke = please - thank you
wunderschön = wonderful, marvellous
Question words
wieviel - wieviele = how much - how many
wo = where
woher = from where
welche = which
wer = who
wann = when
was = what
Verbs
sie sind = they are
Sie sind = you are (formal)
du bist = you are
e (informal)
er ist = he is
ich bin = I am
ich habe = I have
er hat = he has
sie hat = she has
Sie haben = you have (formal)
du hast = you have (informal)
wir haben = we have
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A course book for beginners will be used during these sessions.
You will need a 'Wilkommen German Beginners Coursebook' and the 'Activities Book'.
It is the third edition that we will be using.
The DVD resource pack is not required for the course but some group members may find it useful.
ORDERING DETAILS FOR WILLKOMMEN BOOKS AND DVDs
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE COURSE PACK ONLY INCLUDES THE COURSE BOOK AND CD/DVDs. IT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE ACTIVITY BOOK. THE WEBSITE IS MISLEADING.
The course book is £12.54 from Amazon Prime and £12.57 from Book Depository (no postal charge)
The activity book is £11.62 from Amazon Prime (no postal charge)
The course pack (course book plus CD/DVD)This is £27.54 from Amazon Prime.
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ALL THE LESSON DETAILS FOR THE TERM FROM SEPTEMBER HAVE BEEN MOVED TO ANOTHER PAGE
Click on the link below.
Revision folder of 2018 lessons
Songs for Christmas 2018 session
The words for the songs can be downloaded as a text document and printed out.