{"product_id":"german-reading-skills-for-academic-purposes-routledge-practical-academic-reading-skills-9780367186630","title":"German Reading Skills for Academic Purposes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGerman Reading Skills for Academic Purposes\u003c\/em\u003e allows researchers and learners with no prior understanding of German to gain an understanding of written German at CEFR C2\/ACTFL Intermediate-High level that will allow them to read a variety of German texts, including research articles and monographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is achieved by looking closely at the elements of German grammar required for the understanding of written German along with practical advice and observations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the main themes running through the textbook is that it uses a toolkit approach that puts deductive reasoning and decoding skills at its heart to allow learners to engage with a wide variety of texts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 – Deductive Reasoning; German alphabet and pronunciation; cognates Chapter 2 – Fundamental German and English grammar concepts; German sentence structure Chapter 3 – German genders; plurals in German; separable verbs; how to identify verbs Chapter 4 – Modal verbs; imperative forms; idiomatic expressions with \u003ci\u003ees\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 5 - The German case system; negation Chapter 6 – The past tense forms Chapter 7 – Adjectives and adverbs; comparative and superlative; \u003ci\u003eals\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ewie\u003c\/i\u003e Chapter 8 - Subordinate and relative clauses; commas; present participles Chapter 9 – \u003ci\u003eWerden\u003c\/i\u003e and its different uses; passive voice; future and future perfect Chapter 10 – Personal pronouns; reflexive pronouns; appositions and phrases Chapter 11 – Prepositions; pronominal phrases; other uses of pronouns; word formation of nouns Chapter 12 – Subjunctive I; reported speech Chapter 13 – Subjunctive II; conditional sentences Chapter 14 – Extended participial phrases Chapter 15 – \u003ci\u003eErsatzpassiv\u003c\/i\u003e constructions and other fake passive constructions Chapter 16 – Strategies for dealing with longer and older texts Additional practice texts \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd (Sales)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017842065751,"sku":"9780367186630","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367186630.jpg?v=1750774852","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/german-reading-skills-for-academic-purposes-routledge-practical-academic-reading-skills-9780367186630","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}