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German A1 (beginner)

German a1 syllabus with exercises, PDF handouts, and immersive listening and reading materials.

Learning module 1: Sich selbst vorstellen

A1:1 Grüße und Abschiede (Greetings and Farewells)

A1.1: Greetings and Farewells

Learning goals

  • Basic greetings and farewells.
  • Starting and ending a conversation.
  • Useful phrases to use during class (asking for clarification, repetition, etc.).
  • Personal pronouns

A1:2 Seinen Namen sagen (Telling your name)

A1.2: Telling your name

Learning goals

  • Tell your name and ask for the name of somebody
  • Titles and ways of addressing people. (Mister, miss,...)
  • Introduce yourself
  • The alphabet
  • pronunciation

A1:3 Woher kommst du? (Where are you from?)

A1.3: Where are you from?

Learning goals

  • Ask somebody where they are from
  • Say your nationality
  • Definite and indefinite articles - nominative
  • What are the four cases? Why do we need them?
  • Nouns and their plural forms

A1:4 Zahlen und Zählen (Numbers and counting)

A1.4: Numbers and counting

Learning goals

  • Learn to count
  • Numbers from 1-100
  • Cardinal numbers: hundred, thousand, million
  • The numbers from 20 to 99

A1:5 Familie (Family)

A1.5: Family

Learning goals

  • Introduce and tell about your family.
  • Ask someone about their family. (size, structure,...)
  • Possessive articles - nominative
  • Conjugation of regular verbs in the indicative

A1:6 Sein Alter sagen (Saying your age)

A1.6: Saying your age

Learning goals

  • Asking somebody's age
  • Say how old you are and when your birthday is
  • Position of the verb in the sentence

A1:7 Berufe und Studium (Professions and studies)

A1.7: Professions and studies

Learning goals

  • Describe your profession
  • Ask somebody's profession
  • Talk about studies
  • Feminine job titles
  • Question words: Who, What and Which

A1:8 Adresse und Kontaktdaten (Address and contact details)

A1.8: Address and contact details

Learning goals

  • Asking for and giving contact details.
  • Tell and ask for addresses.
  • Nouns and Articles - Accusative
  • Possessive articles - accusative
Learning module 2: Von Stunden zu Jahreszeiten

A1:9 Wochentage und Tageszeiten (Days of the week and parts of the day)

A1.9: Days of the week and parts of the day

Learning goals

  • Learn the parts of the day.
  • Learn the names of the 7 days of the week
  • Describe your weekly activities.
  • Prepositions: Indicating Times
  • Personal Pronouns - Accusative

A1:10 Das Wetter (The weather)

A1.10: The weather

Learning goals

  • Talk about the weather
  • Basic weather vocabulary
  • Times of day as adverbs
  • No vs Not

A1:11 Ordnungzahlen (Ordinal numbers)

A1.11: Ordinal numbers

Learning goals

  • Learn the ordinal numbers.
  • Ordinal numbers

A1:12 Jahreszeiten, Monate und Teile des Jahres (Seasons, months and parts of the year)

A1.12: Seasons, months and parts of the year

Learning goals

  • Learn the seasons and months.
  • Describe the weather in each season and month.
  • Advanced: tell what you do in what month of the year.
  • Future in the present tense

A1:13 Die Uhrzeit sagen und die Uhr lesen (Telling the time and reading the clock)

A1.13: Telling the time and reading the clock

Learning goals

  • Ask and tell the time
  • Read the clock
  • How do you tell the time?

A1:14 Kalenderdaten und Feiertage (Calendar dates and holidays)

A1.14: Calendar dates and holidays

Learning goals

  • The basic dates and holidays
  • How do you write the date?
  • Personal pronouns - dative
Learning module 3: Tag für Tag

A1:15 Tägliche Nahrung (Daily food)

A1.15: Daily food

Learning goals

  • Name the food that we consume daily.
  • Tell what you eat and drink.
  • Conjunctions (but, for, or, because, and)
  • Review of personal pronouns

A1:16 Tagesabläufe (Daily routines)

A1.16: Daily routines

Learning goals

  • Talk about your daily routine.
  • Talk about habits.
  • Reflexive verbs

A1:17 Kochen und Backen (Cooking and baking)

A1.17: Cooking and baking

Learning goals

  • Basic ingredients for cooking
  • Expressing obligations
  • Separable verbs

A1:18 Dinge fragen (Asking things)

A1.18: Asking things

Learning goals

  • Ask and answer questions.
  • Learn the question words.
  • Asking questions - verb position in the sentence

A1:19 Preise und Geld (Prices and money)

A1.19: Prices and money

Learning goals

  • Talk about money, currencies and payment methods.
  • Ask for and say the price in a shop.
  • Possessive articles - dative
  • quantitative adverbs

A1:20 Lebensmitteleinkauf (Grocery shopping)

A1.20: Grocery shopping

Learning goals

  • Write a grocery list for daily food and drinks.
  • Ask a shop assistant about a product in the supermarket.
  • verbs with stem changes

A1:21 Im Kleidungsgeschäft (At the clothing shop)

A1.21: At the clothing shop

Learning goals

  • Describe everyday clothing.
  • Ask for availability in a clothing shop.
  • Ask for your size.
  • modal verbs

A1:22 Körperteile (Body parts)

A1.22: Body parts

Learning goals

  • Get to know the basic body parts.
  • Basic phrases to describe your health.
  • The most common irregular verbs
Learning module 4: Objekte und Personen beschreiben

A1:23 Äußeres Erscheinungsbild (Physical appearance)

A1.23: Physical appearance

Learning goals

  • Describe people's physical appearance
  • Use adjectives to describe people.
  • Adjectives in the nominative with definite and indefinite articles

A1:24 Farben (Colours)

A1.24: Colours

Learning goals

  • Describe the colours of common objects.
  • Likes and dislikes: I like (not)...
  • Like or to like?

A1:25 Emotionen und Gefühle (Emotions and feelings)

A1.25: Emotions and feelings

Learning goals

  • Express your basic emotions.
  • Describe the emotions of others.
  • "Not, very, too, a bit" with adjectives and verbs

A1:26 Sinne und Wahrnehmung (Senses and perceiving)

A1.26: Senses and perceiving

Learning goals

  • Describe taste, smell, sight, sound and touch
  • Compare things
  • The comparative

A1:27 Formen und Gestalten (Shapes and forms)

A1.27: Shapes and forms

Learning goals

  • Describe forms and shapes.
  • Describe basic objects.
  • Express preferences.
  • The demonstrative pronoun (this, this, this)

A1:28 Charakter und Persönlichkeit (Character and personality)

A1.28: Character and personality

Learning goals

  • Learn to describe the character of people.
  • Talk about personalities.
  • The comparative - irregular adjectives

A1:29 Physische Zustände und Empfindungen (Physical states and sensations)

A1.29: Physical states and sensations

Learning goals

  • Express what you need.
  • Tell how your body feels.
  • Negation with "nicht" and "kein" in complete sentences

A1:30 Krankheit und Schmerz (Sickness and pain)

A1.30: Sickness and pain

Learning goals

  • Express sickness and pain.
  • Express your medical condition at the doctor's office.
  • modal adverbs
Learning module 5: Zu Hause

A1:31 Unser Haus (Our house)

A1.31: Our house

Learning goals

  • Describe all the rooms and floors of a house.
  • Understand a house rental or sales ad.
  • "Es gibt" with accusative

A1:32 Möbel (Furniture)

A1.32: Furniture

Learning goals

  • Describe the furniture in your house.
  • "Es gibt" vs "sein"

A1:33 Geschirr (Tableware)

A1.33: Tableware

Learning goals

  • Describe what tableware you need.
  • Setting up the table to receive guests.
  • Local prepositions with accusative and dative

A1:34 Haushaltsgeräte (Household appliances)

A1.34: Household appliances

Learning goals

  • Learn the names of common household and electrical appliances.
  • Daily situations with common household devices.
  • Fusion of preposition and article in the dative case

A1:35 Wohnen und Unterkunft (Housing and accommodation)

A1.35: Housing and accommodation

Learning goals

  • Learn the different types of accommodations.
  • Contact a landlord or agency to rent a house.
  • Connectors: because, then, also, not either

A1:36 Zimmerpflanzen und Gartenpflanzen (Houseplants and garden plants)

A1.36: Houseplants and garden plants

Learning goals

  • Learn the names of common plants and flowers in the house and in the garden.
  • Daily plant care routine and gardening.
  • The present continuous tense

A1:37 Ihre Haustiere (Your pets)

A1.37: Your pets

Learning goals

  • Learn the basic animals (pets).
  • Describe the routines, daily care and food of your pet.
  • Conditional sentences type 0: If ... then ...
Learning module 6: Die Stadt und das Dorf

A1:38 Alltägliche Dienstleistungen (Everyday services)

A1.38: Everyday services

Learning goals

  • Describe the location of services on a map.
  • Ask for the opening hours of a certain service.
  • The state passive in German
  • The past participle: formation and usage
  • The past participle: formation and use - in-depth

A1:39 Essen bestellen und auswärts essen (Ordering food and dining out)

A1.39: Ordering food and dining out

Learning goals

  • Ask food from the menu.
  • Reserve a table in a restaurant.
  • The most commonly used verbs and their past participle form
  • The perfect tense: formation with "sein" and "haben"

A1:40 Sport und Bewegung (Sports and exercise)

A1.40: Sports and exercise

Learning goals

  • Learn the sports
  • Talk about the sports you practice
  • Adverbs of frequency

A1:41 Hobbys beschreiben (Describing hobbies)

A1.41: Describing hobbies

Learning goals

  • Talk about your hobbies
  • Describe activities that you enjoy
  • Important time adverbs for everyday life

A1:42 Transport (Transportation)

A1.42: Transportation

Learning goals

  • Describe the different types of transportation.
  • Buy a transport ticket.
  • Describe transportation between places.
  • Directional prepositions with accusative: movement from A to B

A1:43 Nach dem Weg fragen und den Weg beschreiben (Asking for and giving directions)

A1.43: Asking for and giving directions

Learning goals

  • Ask for directions in a city
  • Giving directions to a stranger
  • Ask for the existence of a building or service.
  • Locations and directions: right, left, straight ahead...

A1:44 Freitagabend ausgehen (Friday night out)

A1.44: Friday night out

Learning goals

  • Make plans with your friends for the Friday evening.
  • Invite somebody for an event.
  • The imperative

A1:45 Musik und Kunst (Music and art)

A1.45: Music and art

Learning goals

  • Talk about culture events in the city.
  • Go to the museum, an exposition, musical,...
  • The process passive in German