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Describe your situation in the past & perfect tense: wir sind gewesen / gelandet.

Paul is still with Grandpa while Meili is sending a link from Fritz's Facebook page. Fritz was promoted because he ca…

Talk about former times and history & perfect tense: er hat gesehen / vergessen.

Paul visits Grandpa. And he asks his friends in the group chat about Fritz. But he kept everything as a secret. So the…

Ask for information about people, talk about smartphones & perfect tense: er hat erzählt / gesagt.

Paul wants to visit Fritz at the police station and report the theft, but he is not there. He is the…

Facilities and locations in the city & reflexive pronouns and reflexive verbs.

Paul is sad and on his way to the police station to file a report. His parents call him. They want to stress him again. …

Restructure the workforce & separable verbs & sentence structure.

Paul is getting fired. He wasn’t aware that he didn’t report his illness to his boss. Instead, he accidentally sent the message to hi…

Grocery shopping, measurements, weight & sentence structure, subordinate clause.

Paul is sick. He’s doing his grocery shopping in the supermarket. After that, he wants to go home, take sleeping pills…

Name body parts, describe your illness to the doctor & personal pronouns in the accusative: mich / dich / ihn / uns / euch & introduction to the n-declension.

Paul is at the doctor’s because he got s…

Describe how things played out, and reasons for it & adjective declensions in the accusative: den großen Busch / einen großen Busch / großen Busch.

Paul celebrates his birthday alone at home. He has …

German dinner foods, bring up and disarm arguments & adjective declensions: eine internationale Stadt / ein grüner Tee / ein leckeres Bier / schöne Ecken.

Scandal at the dinner buffet! Paul confronts…

Evaluate options, negotiate, make a decision & adjective declensions: das wertvolle Buch / der alte Verkäufer / die kleine Frau.

Paul is just about to walk into the bookstore and confront Anna there.…

Express astonishment and disbelief, describe people’s actions & accusative with prepositions.

Paul is following Anna. He thinks what's covered by a carrier bag inside her handbag is his book. He watc…

Talk about points of interest, locations, means of transport & the accusative case (den, einen, keinen).

In Berlin, Anna, Fritz and Paul want to go to the Brandenburg Gate. Fritz warns them about pic…

Talk about a trip, directions using a map & simple past forms for modal & mixed verbs.

Anna arrives on the train at the last second. She couldn’t answer her phone because the battery is dead. Also, h…

Understand announcements in a train station & plural: nouns that get an -er / -¨er ending, simple past forms for irregular and auxiliary verbs.

Paul and Fritz are at the train station and want to go …

Text: e-mail, use simple past tense for written language & plural: nouns that get no ending but sometimes change to an ä/ö/ü, simple past forms for regular verbs.

Fritz reads Paul's invitation email.…

Discuss travel plans and options & plural: nouns that get an -s ending.

Paul and Fritz take a look at some nice cars in a showroom. He talks about the trip to Berlin. Fritz is excited and wants to co…

Read and understand online reviews & plural: nouns that get an -e / -¨e ending.

Paul books a hotel in Berlin and writes Anna a message with an invitation to the trip. Meanwhile, his friends go out wi…

Give and receive information about somebody & plural: nouns that get an -en/-n ending.

Fritz sends Paul some information: Anna has a criminal record for theft. Paul also knows she likes to read. Now …

Months & demonstrative pronouns: dieser, dieses, diese.

Fritz and Paul are training in the gym. Fritz warns him not to keep upsetting their friends with his messages. Instead, he suggests a party at …

Talk about law and permissions, describe people’s actions & noun-noun composites: Wohnungseingang / Hausflur / Hausmeister.

Paul watches the surveillance video in the caretaker’s office. After the pa…