• Referring to days, months, and seasons
• Giving temperature readings in Celsius
• Describing weather conditions
• Telling time both informally and officially
• Discussing giving gifts and lending items
• Talking about your daily routine
• Stating where or how you were at a previous time

Themenwortschatz

• Themenwortschatz I
  
  • 4-1 Zum Hören und Aussprechen (Listening and pronunciation)
    
  • 4-2 Was passt? (What fits?)

• Themenwortschatz II
  
  • 4-3 Zum Hören und Ausprechen (Listening and pronunciation)
    
  • 4-4 Was passt? (What fits?)

Schritte

• The weather
  
  • 4-5 Wie ist das Wetter?

• Telling time
  
  • 4-6 Wie spät ist es?
  • 4-7 Wann fährt der Zug ab?

• The dative case
  
  • 4-8 Indirect objects
  • 4-9 Der- and ein-words
  • 4-10 Personal pronouns
  • 4-11 Interrogative pronouns: Wer? Wen? Wem? Was?
  • 4-12 Word order with two objects
  • 4-13 Dative verbs
  • 4-14 Prepositions with the dative
  • 4-15 Dative and accusative: Review

• Time expressions
  • 4-16 Im, am, or um?
  • 4-17 Time expressions with the dative and accusative

• Coordinating conjunctions
  • 4-18 und, oder, denn, aber, sondern
  • The simple past tense of sein
  • 4-19 Wie war das?

Kultur

• 4-20 Kulturnotizen

Auf ins Netz!

• 4-21 Das Wetter in Deutschland
• 4-22 Kaufen wir ein!

Audio Program

• Lab Manual
• Pronunciation Guide

Erweiterung

• Spend some time Discovering Switzerland
• Find out why Wilhelm Tell is a Swiss national hero
• Go to the Theater in Basel
• Go shopping for Cuckoo Clocks in the Black Forest
• Sing Beatles songs in German
• Read Birthday greetings in a newspaper and send your own German birthday greetings to a friend

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