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A2 Elementary

Everyday life in full: routines, work, health, the dative case, adjective endings, and talking about the past.

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By the end of A2 you can

  • describe your daily routine, your home, and the weather
  • talk about your job, studies, hobbies, and how you spend free time
  • tell someone what you did yesterday or last year in the perfect tense
  • handle a doctor's visit, a restaurant, and a hotel stay

Unit 1: Daily life

Routines, the home, the weather, clothes, telling the time properly, and dates.

  1. 23Daily routineGetting up, going to work, and the rhythm of a normal day.
  2. 24House and homeRooms, furniture, and describing where you live.
  3. 25Weather and seasonsTalking about the weather — every German conversation's favourite opener.
  4. 26Clothing and appearanceClothes, what people look like, and what you're wearing.
  5. 27Telling the time properlyHalf past, quarter to, the 24-hour clock, and how long things take.
  6. 28Dates and ordinals: am dritten MaiFirst, second, third — and how to say and ask about dates, birthdays and years.

Unit 2: The cases

The dative, prepositions by case, pronouns in every case, two-way prepositions, possessives, and adjective endings.

  1. 29The dative caseThe indirect object — 'to' or 'for' someone — and the prepositions that always take it.
  2. 30Prepositions: accusative or dative?Which prepositions always take the accusative, which always take the dative, and the short forms zum, zur, beim.
  3. 31Ich, mich, mir: pronouns in every caseThe full set of personal pronouns — subject, accusative and dative — and the verbs that take the dative.
  4. 32Two-way prepositionsin, auf, an, and friends: dative for where, accusative for where to.
  5. 33Possessives in every casemy, your, his, her, our, their — with the right endings.
  6. 34Adjective endingsWhy it's der rote Wagen but ein roter Wagen.

Unit 3: Work, learning, and free time

Jobs, school, hobbies, and getting online.

  1. 35Jobs and workSaying what you do, where you work, and talking about your job.
  2. 36School and educationSchool subjects, studying, and the German education system.
  3. 37Hobbies and free timeWhat you like doing, how often, and inviting someone along.
  4. 38Technology and the internetPhones, computers, apps, and the English words German has borrowed.

Unit 4: Health, feelings, and people

The body, a doctor's visit, moods and character, the people in your life, and making plans.

  1. 39Health and the bodyParts of the body, aches and pains, and saying how you feel.
  2. 40At the doctor'sMaking an appointment, describing symptoms, and understanding instructions.
  3. 41Feelings and personalityMoods, emotions, and describing what people are like.
  4. 42Friends and relationshipsFriendship, dating, partners, and the people in your life.
  5. 43Making plansSuggesting, accepting, declining, and agreeing on a time and place.

Unit 5: Grammar milestones

Talking about the past, reflexive verbs, and comparing things.

  1. 44The past: the perfect tenseIch habe gemacht — how Germans talk about the past in conversation.
  2. 45The perfect with seinVerbs of movement and change: ich bin gefahren, er ist geblieben.
  3. 46The simple past in storiesThe written past tense — enough to read stories, news, and fairy tales.
  4. 47Reflexive verbssich waschen, sich freuen, sich erinnern — verbs that point back at the subject.
  5. 48Comparing thingsbigger, the biggest, as big as — and the irregular ones.

Unit 6: Practical situations

A full restaurant visit and a trip with a hotel stay.

  1. 49At the restaurantBooking a table, ordering a full meal, complaining politely, and paying.
  2. 50Travel and hotelsBooking a room, checking in and out, and sorting out problems on a trip.