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Book SynopsisKontakte continues to offer a truly communicative approach that supports functional proficiency, supported by the full suite of digital tools available in Connect German (now including LearnSmart!). This proven Introductory German program maintains its commitment to meaningful communicative practice as well as extensive coverage of the 5 Cs and the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines 2012. In its eighth edition, Kontakte has greatly expanded its digital offering: Connect German now contains the full scope of activities originating from both the white and blue pages of the student text and the Arbeitsbuch. Furthermore, the program now offers LearnSmart, an adaptive learning program that helps students learn grammar and vocabulary more efficiently by tailoring the experience to individual student needs.
Communication in meaningful contexts: Students read and listen to comprehensible German and have ample oppo
Table of ContentsKapitel 1 Wer ich bin und was ich tue
Themen
Freizeit
Schule und Universität
Tagesablauf
Persönliche Angaben
Wortschatz
Strukturen
The present tense
Expressing likes and dislikes: gern / nicht gern
Telling time
Word order in statements
Separable-prefix verbs
Word order in questions
Kulturelles
Kapitel 2 Besitz und Vergnügen
Themen
Besitz
Geschenke
Kleidung und Aussehen
Vergnügen
Wortschatz
Strukturen
The accusative case
The negative article: kein, keine
What would you like? Ich möchte …
Possessive determiners
The present tense of stem-vowel changing verbs
Asking people to do things: the du-imperative
Kulturelles
Kapitel 3 Talente, Pläne, Pflichten
Themen
Talente und Pläne
Pflichten
Ach, wie nett!
Körperliche und geistige Verfassung
Wortschatz
Strukturen
The model verbs können, wollen, mögen
The model verbs müssen, sollen, dürfen
Accusative case: personal pronouns
Word order: dependent clauses
Dependent clauses and separable-prefix verbs
Kulturelles
Kapitel 4 Ereignisse und Erinnerungen
Themen
Der Alltag
Urlaub und Freizeit
Geburtstage und Jahrestage
Ereignisse
Wortschatz
Strukturen
Talking about the past: the perfect tense
Strong and weak past participles
Dates and ordinal numbers
Prepositions of time: um, am, im
Past participles with and without ge-
Kulturelles
Kapitel 5 Geld und Arbeit
Themen
Geschenke und Gefälligkeiten
Berufe
Arbeitsplätze
In der Küche
Wortschatz
Strukturen
Dative case: articles and possessive determiners
Question pronouns: wer, wen, wem
Expressing change: the verb werden
Location: in, an, auf + dative case
Dative case: personal pronouns
Kulturelles
Kapitel 6 Wohnen
Themen
Haus und Wohnung
Das Stadtviertel
Auf Wohnungssuche
Hausarbeit
Wortschatz
Strukturen
Dative verbs
Location vs. destination: two-way prepositions with the dative or accusative case
Word order: time before place
Direction: in/auf vs. zu/nach
Separable-prefix verbs: the present tense and the perfect tense
The prepositions mit and bei + dative
Kulturelles
Kapitel 7 Unterwegs
Themen
Geografie
Transportmittel
Das Auto
Reiseerlebnisse
Wortschatz
Strukturen
Relative clauses
Making comparisons: the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and adverbs
Referring to and asking about things and ideas: da-compounds and wo-compounds
The perfect tense (review)
The simple past tense of haben and sein
Kulturelles
Kapitel 8 Essen und Einkaufen
Themen
Essen und Trinken
Haushaltsgeräte
Einkaufen und Kochen
Im Restaurant
Wortschatz
Strukturen
Adjectives: an overview
Attributive adjectives in the nominative and accusative cases
Destination vs. location: stellen/stehen, legen/liegen, setzen/sitzen, hängen/hängen
Adjectives in the dative case
Talking about the future: the present and future tenses
Kulturelles
Kapitel 9 Kindheit und Jugend
Themen
Kindheit
Jugend
Geschichten
Märchen
Wortschatz
Strukturen
The conjunction als with dependent-clause word order
The simple past tense of werden, the modal verbs, and wissen
Time: als, wenn, wann
The simple past tense of strong and weak verbs (receptive)
Sequence of events in past narration: the past perfect tense and the conjunction nachdem (receptive)
Kulturelles
Kapitel 10 Auf Reisen
Themen
Reisepläne
Nach dem Weg fragen
Urlaub am Strand
Tiere
Wortschatz
Strukturen
Prepositions to talk about places: aus, bei, nach, von, zu
Requests and instructions: the imperative (summary review)
Prepositions for giving directions: an … vorbei, bis zu, entlang, gegenüber von, über
Being polite: the subjunctive form of modal verbs
Focusing on the action: the passive voice
Kulturelles
Kapitel 11 Gesundheit und Krankheit
Themen
Krankheit
Körperteile und Körperpflege
Arzt, Apotheke, Krankenhaus
Unfälle
Wortschatz
Strukturen
Accusative reflexive pronouns
Dative reflexive pronouns
Word order of accusative and dative objects
Indirect questions: Wissen Sie, wo …?
Word order in dependent and independent clauses (summary review)
Kulturelles
Kapitel 12 Die moderne Gesellschaft
Themen
Politik
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
Das liebe Geld
Kunst und Literatur
Wortschatz
Strukturen
The genitive case
Expressing possibility: würde, hätte, and wäre
Causality and purpose: weil, damit, um … zu
Principles of case (summary review)
Kulturelles
