Main Grammar Points Covered in Wie Geht’s? Schritte 1 – 5:
Greetings
The German alphabet
Pronunciation
Introduction to grammatical gender and plurals
Counting
Telling time
Basic vocabulary (colors, numbers, clothing, simple opposites, the calendar, weather, common classroom phrases)
Chapter 1
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Present tense of regular verbs
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Nominative case
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Basic sentence structure
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Compound nouns
Chapter 2
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Present tense of haben and sein
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Accusative case and weak (-n) masculine nouns
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Continuation of sentence structure
Chapter 3
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Present tense of irregular (stem-changing) verbs
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Dative case
Chapter 4
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Present perfect tense
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Subordinating conjunctions
Chapter 5
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Personal pronouns
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Modal auxiliaries
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Sondern vs. Aber
Chapter 6
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Two-way prepositions
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Imperatives
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Wissen vs. kennen
Chapter 7
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Der- and ein-words
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Separable-prefix verbs
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Flavoring particles
Chapter 8
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Genitive case
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Time expressions
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Continuation of sentence structure
Chapter 9
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Adjective endings following der– and ein-words
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Reflexive verbs
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Prepositional (zu) infinitives
Chapter 10
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Verbs with prepositional objects
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Da– and wo-compounds
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Endings of unpreceded adjectives
Chapter 11
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Simple past tense
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Conjunctions als, wenn, wann
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Past perfect tense
Chapter 12
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Comparison of adjectives and adverbs
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Future tense
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Predicate and adjectival nouns
Chapter 13
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Subjunctive
Chapter 14
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Relative clauses
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Indirect speech
Chapter 15
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Passive voice
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Review of the uses of Subjunctive
