A1 module 1 German class - Zoom early bird course

A new class will start Tuesday, 4 August, 8-9am. The class will meet 15 times/60 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8-9am. This class will be taught via Zoom and students from outside London are invited to join!

Topics and first conversation skills

• to introduce yourself and others
• to talk about professions and family
• to ask for help and prices
• numbers and colours, materials and forms
• office and computer, simple telephone skills, write and read simple emails

Grammar

• verb conjugation of regular and irregular verbs in the present tense
• questions (yes/no and question words)
• articles (def./indef., possessive), negation
• nominative and accusative
• adjectives

and much more ...

A1 module 2 German class - Zoom early bird course

A new class will start start on Tuesday, 29 September, 8-9am.The class will meet 15 times/60 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8-9am. This class will be taught via Zoom and students from outside London are invited to join!

Topics and first conversation skills

• to discuss hobbies and activities 
• to arrange a date/appointment, SMS and chat 
• to talk about food and preferences 
• More telephone skills 
• to describe your day and talk about things that happened in the past. 

Grammar

• Modal verbs and separable verbs
• First prepositions 
• Word order
• The spoken past tense (Perfekt) will start to play an important role in this module and you will able to say much more talking about things which happened in the past.

and much more ...

A1 module 3 German class - Zoom early bird course

A new class will start on Tuesday, 24 November,  8-9am, The class will meet 15 times/60 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8-9am. This class will be taught via Zoom and students from outside London are invited to join!

Topics and first conversation skills

• to ask for directions
• to talk about houses and flats
• institutions and places in the city
• to make appointments, hotel vocab
• talking about plans and ideas, health and health issues 

Grammar

• the dative: verbs and prepositions
• the accusative: prepositions
• modal verbs
• Imperativ
• The spoken past tense (Perfekt) will continue to play in important role in this module. You will be able to say much more using this tense.

and much more ...

A1 module 4 German class (based on textbook "Menschen")

A new class will start on early 2021 - date, time and venue tbc.

Topics and first conversation skill

• to talk about appearance and characterhousehold activities
• to talk about rules (traffic, environment)
• to talk about clothes and fashion
• to talk about the weather
• to talk about celebrations and customs

Grammar

• Spoken past tense: war/hatte, more past participles gefallen, bekommen etc
• Imperativ du/ihr, Accusativ pronouns
• modal verbs dürfen, müssen
• comparisons
• words with –los, (eg arbeitslos), conjunction denn
• Konjunktiv 2 würde

And much more……

A2 module 1 German class (based on our textbook "Menschen")

A new class will start in March 2021 - date, time and venue tbc.

Topics and first conversation skills

• professions, family, history, events
• furnishing and moving house
• tourism, nature landscape
• shopping and preferences
• planning a city trip and talking about cultural events

Grammar

• more possessive articles
• "Wechselpräpositionen"
• More verbs and nouns (endings)
• adjectives
• more prepositions

and much more ...

A2 module 2 German class (based on our textbook "Menschen")

A new class will start in 2021 - date, time and venue tbc

Topics and first conversation skills

• sport and fitness
• diseases and accidents
• working life
• restaurant (advanced)
• a company portrait
• vocab on everyday objects
• food and nutirion

Grammar

• Konjunktion II, könnte, sollte
• More prepositions
• Adjektivdeklinationen
• Reflexive verbs
• Konjunktionen weil, dass, deshalb, wenn

and much more ...

A2 module 3 German class (based on our textbook "Menschen")

A new class will start in 2021 - date, time and venue tbc

Topics and conversation skills

• exchange on how to best learn foreign languages
• to express happiness in German
• newspapers and television
• hotel and weather advanded
• to comment on something (also in writing)
• to talk and write about travel and trips

Grammar

• the passive
  
• Subclauses
• modal verbs in sub clauses
• more advanced usage of prepositions

and much more ...

A2 module 4 German class (based on our textbook "Menschen")

A new class will start on Thursday, 23 July 2020 6-7.30pm - This class will be taught via Zoom and students from outside London are invited to join!

Topics and conversation skills

• cine, concerst and theatre
• books and press
• crime
• mobility
• training and profession
• working abroad

Grammar

• local prepositions Woher? - vom/aus dem
  
• modal verbs  simple past
• questions starting with welch-
• conjunctions:
• relativ clauses in the nominative and accusative
• more simple past forms

and much more ...