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Kapitel 3 covers the following topics:

Anlauftext: Was halten wir von Anna? Was hält sie von uns? Sprache im Alltag: Assumptions with bestimmt, sicher, wahrscheinlich, and wohl. Brennpunkt Kultur: Mealtimes in German-speaking countries

Strukturen und Vokabeln

I. Describing activities. Present tense of stem-changing verbs. The verb wissen. Sprache im Alltag: es gibt, was gibt es ... ?, and was gibt's?

II. Expressing relationships or ownership. Nominative of possessive adjectives

III. Expressing additional and contrastive information and justifications. Coordinating conjunctions

IV. Stating personal preferences. The particle lieber

V. Expressing what you would like to do. The modal verb möchte. Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Lebensmittel. Brennpunkt Kultur: The metric system. Sprache im Alltag: Specifying amounts. Sprache im Alltag: Bitte schön. Absprungtext: Heidelberg und Mannheim. Brennpunkt Kultur: Heidelberg and Mannheim

Strukturen und Vokabeln

Wissenswerte Vokabeln: Freizeitaktivitäten

VI. Expressing possibilities. The modal verb können

VII. Referring to people and things. Accusative pronouns

VIII. Talking about people and things that you know. The verb kennen

IX. Expressing relationships or ownership. Accusative of possessive adjectives

X. Talking about more than one item. Noun plurals.

Zieltext: Fahren wir nach Heidelberg oder nach Mannheim?

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