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

• Present tense of regular verbs

• Nominative case

• Basic sentence structure

• Compound nouns

Chapter 2

• Present tense of haben and sein

• Accusative case and weak (-n) masculine nouns

• Continuation of sentence structure

Chapter 3

• Present tense of irregular (stem-changing) verbs

• Dative case

Chapter 4

• Present perfect tense

• Subordinating conjunctions

Chapter 5

• Personal pronouns

• Modal auxiliaries

• Sondern vs. Aber

Chapter 6

• Two-way prepositions

• Imperatives

• Wissen vs. kennen

Chapter 7

• Der- and ein-words

• Separable-prefix verbs

• Flavoring particles

Chapter 8

• Genitive case

• Time expressions

• Continuation of sentence structure

Chapter 9

• Adjective endings following der– and ein-words

• Reflexive verbs

• Prepositional (zu) infinitives

Chapter 10

• Verbs with prepositional objects

• Da– and wo-compounds

• Endings of unpreceded adjectives

Chapter 11

• Simple past tense

• Conjunctions als, wenn, wann

• Past perfect tense

Chapter 12

• Comparison of adjectives and adverbs

• Future tense

• Predicate and adjectival nouns

Chapter 13

• Subjunctive

Chapter 14

• Relative clauses

• Indirect speech

Chapter 15

• Passive voice

• Review of the uses of Subjunctive