Grundstufe II (Language Acquisition)

Students are introduced to more vocabulary, idioms and phrases so that they can talk and write in a more elaborate way.  Topics and/or situations: Travel, Shopping and Business; cities, town and traffic, living conditions today and yesterday; making comparison; giving reason and justification for something; making requests; asking for and giving advice; asking about and expressing quality of places and things; expressing like and dislike, satisfaction and disappointment, and anger; offering help, turning down an offer; agreeing to something; expressing thanks; expressing uncertainty; directing someone; asking about conditions of people; expressing importance; expressing ownership; making suggestions; narrating and talking about the past; excusing oneself.  Grammar: prepositions with accusative and with dative; situation implement; verbs with dative and accusative implement; verbs with dative complement; ordinal numbers; possessive articles; modal auxiliaries perfekt (present Perfect Tense).