A1(Higher): Nuts & Bolts of German

In this section you will get to know more building instructions 

for putting the German words together to form proper sentences. 

1. Accusative case

  1.1 Direct object

     1.1.1 Worth a photo!

     1.1.2 I don't need all that!

  1.2  Definite time expressions: Last time

2. Compound Nouns

  2.1 One misunderstood animal 

  2.2 Logical combinations 

3. Conjunctions

  3.1 "denn" versus "weil"

  3.2 "denn" or "weil" (I) 

  3.3 "denn" or "weil" (II) 

  3.4 Fridays for future 

  3.5 Not happy with your purchase

  3.6 "deswegen" & "deshalb"

  3.7 "deshalb/deswegen": Make one out of two 

  3.8 "denn" or "deshalb/deswegen" 

  3.9 "trotzdem"

  3.10 "trotzdem" - A student life full of contradictions 

  3.11 Logical matches (I)

  3.12 Logical matches (II)

  3.13 Logical matches (III)

  3.14 Logical matches (IV)

4. Imperative

  4.1 Come on! (I) 

  4.2 Come on! (II) [Audio] 

5. Infinitive clauses

  5.1  New Year's resolutions 

6. Modal verbs

  6.1 Plans & wishes [Audio] 

  6.2 Darn that Dog! 

  6.3 No place for us 

  6.4  Along the river banks of the Limmat in Zürich 

  6.5 You are good at it! 

7. Negation

  7.1 Fibs about Ireland [Audio] 

8. Ordinal numbers

  8.1 On your own or in a group

9. Perfect tense

  9.1 Doing & done

  9.2 A dozen past participles at a time 

  9.3 Taking turns 

  9.4 Martin Luther King 

  9.5 English words are hip in German advertising 

  9.6 The class of -ieren

  9.7 Another dozen past participles at a time 

  9.8 Already done! [Audio] 

  9.9 Find the pattern

  9.10 A further dozen past participles at a time

  9.11 Why always me? (I) 

  9.12 Why always me? (II) [Audio] 

  9.13 Some verbs are really strong

  9.14 An additional dozen past participles at a time

  9.15 Mainly "haben", sometimes "sein" 

  9.16 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (I) 

  9.17 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (II)

  9.18 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (III)

  9.19 Mrs Billerberg is back from her business trip (IV)

  9.20 A play on words somewhere in Zürich

  9.21  Professions [Audio]

  9.22  A man of routine 

  9.23 At the drycleaners

  9.24 Friday, the 13th!

  9.25 Freshly baked

  9.26 Halloween

  9.27 Missing talents [Audio] 

  9.28 A Monday morning at the end of October

  9.29 Back in the 80s

  9.30 Never before (I) 

  9.31 Never before (II) 

  9.32 Never before (III)

  9.33 The recluse

  9.34 Which is the odd one out?

  9.35 Just before the holidays

  9.36 Speed Dating

  9.37 Christmas preparations

  9.38 Famous Irish people (I) 

  9.39 Famous Irish people (II)

  9.40 Travelling educates!

  9.41 All jumbled up

    9.41.1 All jumbled up (I)

    9.41.2 All jumbled up (II)

    9.41.3 All jumbled up (III)

    9.41.4 All jumbled up (IV)

    9.41.5 All jumbled up (V)

    9.41.6 All jumbled up (VI)

    9.41.7 All jumbled up (VII)

    9.41.8 All jumbled up (VIII)

10. Perfect tense & simple past tense

  10.1 The last time we had snow 

  10.2  Questions & answers (I)

  10.3 Questions & answers (II)

  10.4  Questions & answers (III)

11. Personal pronouns

  11.1 A question of love

  11.2 Find a suitable one

  11.3 Random questions (I) 

  11.4 Random questions (II) 

  11.5 Replace it (I) 

  11.6 Replace it (II) 

12. Plurals

  12.1 Test yourself (I) 

  12.2 Test yourself (II)

  12.3 Where is the loo?

  12.4 And the plural is ...? 

13. Possessive articles

  13.1 His & Hers 

  13.2 Yours or mine? 

14. Prepositions

  14.1 "für" -> Happy Dogs

  14.2 "für" -> International vehicle registration codes 

  14.3 "für" - Fame 

  14.4 "für" -> Ill chosen Christmas presents [Audio]

  14.5 "ohne" -> It rains a lot in Ireland  

  14.6  "ohne" -> Susanne's rule book 

  14.7 "aus" -> It's regional

  14.8 "aus" -> A multicultural German class 

  14.9 "aus" -> Where is she coming from? 

  14.10 "zu" -> Let's go there

  14.11 "zu" -> Going places

  14.12 "zu" -> Where are the luggage lockers? 

  14.13 "zu" -> Sophia's Congratulations (I)

  14.14 "zu" -> Sophia's Congratulations (II) 

  14.15 "von" -> Convenient places of residence

  14.16  "von" & "zu" -> Tram lines [Audio]

  14.17 "bei" -> Where was Martin?

  14.18 "in" -> It can go both ways (I)  

  14.19 "in" -> It can go both ways (II)  

  14.20 "in" -> It can go both ways (III)  

  14.21 "in" -> It can go both ways (IV)  

  14.22 "in" -> Where are they going to? (I)

  14.23 "in" -> Where are they going to? (II)

  14.24 "in" -> Logical locations

  14.25  "nach", "in" & "zu" -> Erasmus students in Dublin

  14.26 "nach", "in" & "zu" -> A day like many others

  14.27 "auf" -> It can go both ways (I)

  14.28 "auf" -> It can go both ways (II)

  14.29 "auf" -> Germans prefer to be inside

  14.30 "auf" -> Straight out of Grimms' fairytales

  14.31 "auf" & "in"? -> Where are they (I)

  14.32 "auf" & "in"? -> Where are they? (II)

  14.33 "in","an", "auf" & "in" -> Customers' requests 

15. Present tense

   15.1 And what about you? [Audio]

  15.2 Bahnhof Friedrichstraße 

16. Separable & inseparable verbs 

   16.1 Separated in the present tense

   16.2 Separated in the imperative

   16.3 In combination with modal verbs

   16.4 In a cafeteria 

   16.5 Identify the separable verb 

   16.6 Can you please do that! 

17. Simple past tense

  17.1 I am & you were 

  17.2 I have & you had 

  17.3 Now it's different! (I)

  17.4 Now it's different (II) [Audio]

18. Word order

  18.1 Where was Goethe?