German Grammar: Reviewed and Retold

German Grammar: Reviewed and Retold is a user-friendly grammar/workbook designed to give German learners a great basis to build an in-depth knowledge of spoken and written German that bridges the gap between grammar, story-telling and culture.

German Grammar: Reviewed and Retold is a user-friendly grammar/workbook designed to give German learners a great basis to build an in-depth knowledge of spoken and written German.

Bridging the gap between grammar, storytelling, and culture, learners of the German language discover Germany's cultural history as well as life in Germany today, while absorbing grammatical structures through reading and practice. This grammar is based on recent Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research and word frequency, to embed vocabulary and grammar into a language-specific cultural context. A key component of this approach is consistency and relevance, enabling students to apply grammatical structures to their language learning, as well as talking about the past, present, and future.

Aimed at ACTFL levels Novice (all) to Intermediate (middle)/CEFR A1 to B1, this is the perfect grammar for post-beginners, combining storytelling with grammar acquisition.

Autorentext

Ulf Schütze is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the University of Victoria. He has taught German language courses for over twenty-five years at five universities in Europe, North America, and Oceania. His research has been widely published in the areas of psycholinguistics, computer assisted language learning, as well as on the relationship between language and culture.

Lisa Süßenbach has a master's degree in applied linguistics and is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary. She has taught German at the University of Victoria, St. Mary's University, and the University of Calgary since 2013. Her research focus, as well as her dissertation project, is on second language pronunciation attainment and the development of teaching materials for computer-assisted pronunciation training.

Klappentext

German Grammar: Reviewed and Retold is a user-friendly grammar/workbook designed to give German learners a great basis to build an in-depth knowledge of spoken and written German that bridges the gap between grammar, story-telling and culture.

Inhalt

Table of Contents

The concept of this Grammar

Acknowledgements

1. Pronouns Die rote Karte

2. The many articles Siegfried und der Drache

3. Genitive case Die schwarzen Jäger

4. Adjectives Schiller und Goethe

5. Asking questions Himmelfahrt

6. Reflexive verbs Walpurgisnacht

7. Modal verbs Schuberts Schüchternheit

8. "möchten" and "mögen" Bettina und Beethovens Geheimnis

9. Separable prefix verbs Im Strandkorb

10. Two-way prepositions Der blaue Reiter

11. Commands Störtebeker ärgert die Hanse

12. Infinitive with "zu" Der Weihnachtsbaum

13. The verb "werden" Der blaue Engel

14. Passive voice Der Auftritt Udos

15. Simple past Hänsel und Gretel

16. Subjunctive Honeckers Theaterbesuch

17. Present and past perfect Die Deutsche Bahn

18. Conjunctions (for long sentences) Angie im Fitnesscenter

19. Conjunctions to begin a sentence with Helmut Schmidts Zigarette

20. Relative clauses Im Bürgerbüro
    Appendix I: Prepositions usage "für"and "zu"

Appendix II: Verb conjugation

Appendix III: Answer key