Upgrade Your German

by Mentchen,Silke

• ISBN13: 9780340806623
• ISBN10: 0340806621
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-03-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the ideal revision book to help increase students' chances of getting a top grade in their A Level German exams. Upgrade your German offers a thirty-day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve results. In the countdown to exams, students simply spend between thirty minutes and an hour a day with this book, and see their mark upgrade. This short revision guide focuses on three key strategies for improving exam results: eliminating basic errors and slips of the pen; increasing and consolidating vocabulary and moving on from school-book German.

Author Biography

Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass and Silke Mentchen are both University Language Teaching Officers in German at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Cases	p. 3
Describing people	p. 9
Pronouns	p. 17
Family and society	p. 25
Nouns--genders and plurals	p. 31
Leisure	p. 39
Relative clauses	p. 45
Film	p. 51
Verb forms	p. 57
Politeness	p. 63
Adjective endings	p. 69
City life	p. 75
Prepositions	p. 81
Europe	p. 89
Prepositions 2	p. 95
Migration	p. 103
Verbs with prepositions	p. 111
Talking about academic subjects	p. 119
Tenses and irregular verbs	p. 125
Education	p. 133
Time expressions	p. 141
History and dates	p. 149
Word order and textual cohesion	p. 157
Literature	p. 167
The passive	p. 175
Nominalization	p. 183
Environment	p. 191
Conditionals	p. 197
Reported speech	p. 205
Bumper self-test	p. 213
Progress Chart	p. 219
Answers to Exercises	p. 221
Index	p. 237
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