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1 HALLO, ICH BIN …
Sequence 1 introducing yourself |
Sich Kennenlernen talking about yourself and
others | spelling names
Sequence 2 saying your telephone
Am Arbeitsplatz number and email address |
asking and giving personal
information
Sequence 3 greeting and saying
Hallo, wie geht‘s? goodbye | introducing
yourself and others | talking
about how you feel
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Themes and texts
initial contacts
conversations | chat
personal information
conversations – private and
in the HR office | business
card
getting to know each other
conversations in private
and at work | personal
profiles
Vocabulary Grammar
countries and languages | WH-question and statement
the alphabet sentence
numbers: 1–100 | address WH-question and statement
sentence | verb and
personal pronoun
greetings and goodbyes | reference in texts | verb Pronunciation
times of day and personal pronoun numbers
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2 MENSCHEN IN DEUTSCHLAND
Sequence 1 talking about jobs and
Personen und ihr Beruf work | telling people about
yourself or others | creating
an online profile
jobs jobs | marital status gender – job descriptions |
noun/pronoun and verb |
job profiles | online profile | negation with nicht
introductions in a workshop

Sequence 2 naming objects in the the workplace | office things in the workplace | gender of nouns | definite
Was ist um mich herum? workplace | naming colours supplies colours article | plural endings
adverts | till receipts

Sequence 3 describing things | registering at a language personal things Pronunciation

Wie heißt das auf Deutsch? enquiring | asking people to school intonation: WH-question
repeat things and statement
conversations in the
language school

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3 FREUNDE UND CO.
Sequence 1 talking about hobbies |
Was machst du gern? expressing likes and
dislikes
Sequence 2 understanding an invitation
Hast du Zeit? and accepting / declining |
understanding and telling
the time | arranging to meet
Sequence 3 asking questions about
Was ist das? everyday objects and
naming them
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Themes and texts Vocabulary Grammar
leisure activities sports | times of the day | yes/no question | position
leisure activities of the verb in the sentence
conversations with friends (statement, WH-question,
yes/no question) |
position of gern / nicht gern
birthday party days of the week | telling verb and personal
the time formally pronoun | haben
email | text messaging |
mailbox voice messages |
conversations with friends
tidying up at home everyday objects definite article / indefinite Pronunciation
article / negative article intonation: yes/no question
conversations with friends and statement | short and
long vowel sounds
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4 IN DER STADT UNTERWEGS

Sequence 1 understanding the menu | at the restaurant food | drink | menu nominative and accusative |
Speisen und Getränke ordering at the restaurant verbs with the accusative |
conversations at the möchten
restaurant

Sequence 2 understanding and telling
Angebote in der Stadt the time | arranging to meet
Sequence 3 finding information |
Das gibt es in Deutschland understanding information
in adverts or on posters |
arranging to meet
making appointments leisure activities | telling sein
the time informally
chat | mailbox voice
messages | text messaging |
event tips | conversations
with friends
cities in Germany numbers from 100 | places nominative and accusative | Pronunciation
and buildings | telling the es gibt … / haben + acc. diphthongs ei, eu, au
short profiles of towns/ time: opening times and
cities | chat | posters | text duration
messaging | telephone
announcements |
conversations with friends

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5 EINKAUFEN UND ESSEN

Sequence 1 expressing likes and shopping and eating groceries | quantities | irregular verbs:
Essen und Trinken dislikes | understanding and packaging essen | mögen
expressing quantities conversations with friends |
shopping lists

Sequence 2 asking for the price |
Beim Einkaufen understanding and
expressing requests
shopping
shopping at the fruit stall |
at the butcher’s | at the
baker’s | conversations with
friends
shops and pricing request: Sie | position of
the verb in the sentence (all
sentence types) | irregular
verbs: geben, nehmen

Sequence 3 talking about food | invitation to a meal with request: imperative Pronunciation
Gemeinsam essen understanding and friends short and long vowel
expressing requests sounds with umlauts
conversations with friends

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6 MEIN ALLTAG
Sequence 1 talking about everyday life
Meine tägliche Routine and routines | talking about
holidays | understanding
suggestions and reacting to
them
Sequence 2 understanding information
Ich bin Architekt about jobs | talking about
jobs and professional
activities
Sequence 3 making appointments |
Meine Termine understanding and saying
dates and times
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Themes and texts
everyday life and leisure
personal profiles |
conversations in the
family | text messaging |
holiday blog
jobs and work
job profiles | conversations
about work
arranging meetings
planning a holiday | diary |
talking about appointments
Vocabulary Grammar
everyday activities | the modal verbs
leisure activities können, müssen, wollen |
modal verbs and sentence
brackets
jobs | frequency:
work-related activities immer – oft – nie |
positions in the sentence
months | seasons dates: ordinal numbers
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7 KOMMST DU MIT?
Sequence 1 talking about music |
Was ist gerade los? expressing preferences |
understanding information
on posters
Sequence 2 inviting someone |
Wir laden euch ein understanding
acceptances or refusals |
planning something
Sequence 3 responding to an invitation |
Danke für die Einladung at the restaurant / in the
pub … paying
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Themes and texts Vocabulary Grammar
music festivals music styles | personal pronouns in the
cultural events accusative
event posters |
conversations about taste
in music
party written invitation separable verbs and
sentence brackets
conversation: preparation
for a party | written and
telephone invitations |
acceptances and refusals:
email and text message
birthday party acceptances or refusals to Pronunciation
an invitation | paying at the word accent with
invitation to a concert | restaurant / in the pub … separable verbs
acceptances and refusals by
telephone | conversation in
the pub and paying
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8 DEINE WOHNUNG IST SCHÖN
Sequence 1 describing the rooms in a
Ich zeige dir meine flat | expressing likes and
Wohnung dislikes
Sequence 2 understanding descriptions
So wohnen wir of flats and furniture |
saying what belongs to
whom | describing a dream
house/dream flat
Sequence 3 asking for things | talking
Das ist aber teuer! about prices | evaluating
something
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Themes and texts Vocabulary Grammar
viewing a flat names and characteristics
of the rooms | storeys
conversations about flats
and houses
in the new flat names and characteristics possessive articles in the
of the furniture nominative
conversations between
neighbours and while
moving house
at the furniture store expressions of evaluation possessive articles in the Pronunciation
accusative | nicht, sehr, zu -er at the start of a word or
conversations about the syllable and at the end of a
new flat | conversations word
between customers and
sales assistants
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9 DAS WAR SEHR SCHÖN

Sequence 1 understanding holiday holiday expressions of evaluation past tense of haben and
Heute ist – gestern war reports | describing past sein | recap of position of
events emails from friends | the verb in the sentence
telephone calls
Sequenz 2 understanding information a visit to friends leisure activities | recap of possessive articles
Besuch bei Freunden on leisure activities | expressions of evaluation in the accusative
expressing likes and chat, conversations and
dislikes emails between friends |
short holiday reports
Sequence 3 writing a private email | before and after a visit to private email (salutation, genitive -s Pronunciation
E-Mails thanking | asking for and friends signing off …) e-schwa
providing information
emails | telephone calls

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10 KONTAKTE IM ALLTAG
Sequence 1 understanding simple internet and social media social media | prepositions that take the
Kontakte pflegen information texts | making telling the time dative: aus, bei, mit, nach,
notes | making statements articles | survey in the seit, von, zu | article words
about habits street | blog | podcast in the dative | contraction
of preposition and article
Sequence 2 addressing someone | coincidental meeting congratulations
Freunde und Nachbarn offering someone help |
expressing congratulations conversations between
friends and neighbours |
written invitations
Sequence 3 understanding radio event tips leisure opportunities and recap: definite article, Pronunciation
Treffpunkte reports | understanding events indefinite article and sp and st
event programmes | tips on the radio | event negative article in the
understanding comments posters | forum posts | nominative, accusative
about an event comments and dative

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11 ENTSCHULDIGEN SIE BITTE
Sequence 1 gathering information |
Besuch in Heidelberg understanding signs and
labels
Sequence 2 apologising | justifying
Ich bin leider zu spät something | understanding
and providing information
in texts
Sequence 3 expressing imperatives and
Wie geht das? polite requests | describing
a problem | understanding
instructions
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Themes and texts Vocabulary Grammar
a short break in the city travelling personal pronouns in the
dative
conversation in the tourist
information centre, in the
museum shop, at the post
office | questions to
passers-by
being late times and dates the pronoun man
conversations in the office,
in the doctor’s surgery,
between friends | telephone
announcements | forum
technical questions frequent actions using the recap of modal verbs in the Pronunciation
computer and copier sentence | the infinitive in b and p
conversations in the copy written instructions
shop, in the family | written
instructions
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12 ICH BIN HIER NEU
Sequence 1 understanding key
Das Praktikum information in a business
letter | introducing yourself
and others | understanding
instructions
Sequence 2 understanding a private
Neuer Job, neue Stadt email | understanding and
describing processes |
making business and
private appointments
Sequence 3 undertstanding of written
Kim hat viel Arbeit and verbal appointment
information I understanding
what you should or
shouldn’t do | writing dates
and times in emails
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Themes and texts
the first days in a work
placement
letter of response to an
application | conversations
in the office
appointments and
processes privately and
at work
private and business
emails | conversations in
the office | voicemail
in the office
business emails |
conversations in the office
Vocabulary Grammar
at work | greetings | two-way prepositions with
things on your desk | the dative
work placement activities
processes and temporal adverbs
appointments zuerst, dann, danach,
später, zuletzt
conventions at work | modal verbs and their Pronunciation
business appointments | negatives t – d as initial and medial
date and time (nicht) dürfen, (nicht) müssen sounds
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13 FAMILIE UND FREUNDE
Sequence 1 understanding personal
Familie heute details in texts and
conversations | giving
personal details in a short
text
Sequence 2 understanding and
Im Haushalt expressing instructions and
requests | understanding
and expressing promises
Sequence 3 understanding information
Familiengeschichten about people, times and
places | talking about
people | describing people
and events in a written
passage
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Themes and texts
housing and living
arrangements
short descriptions of living
arrangements | talking
about where you live |
registration forms
everyday life in a family
everyday conversations |
household statistics | text
messaging
life stories
articles | conversations |
chat
Vocabulary Grammar
family | personal details prepositions für, ohne +
accusative, mit + dative
household activities | recap of the imperative |
making a promise the modal verb sollen |
recap of modal verbs in the
sentence
age | time and date question words in the Pronunciation
nominative, accusative k–g
and dative | demonstrative
articles in the nominative,
accusative and dative
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14 DER SOMMERJOB
Sequence 1 understanding important
Einen Sommerjob suchen information about jobs |
asking for information in
writing and verbally |
providing information
about yourself
Sequence 2 understanding information
Das war ein guter Job about activities and
experiences at work | taking
notes | telling people about
your job
Sequence 3 understanding information
Schule und Ausbildung about training | saying
dates and years | filling in
a form
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Themes and texts
holiday jobs
radio report | private and
job-related conversations |
adverts | emails | forum
work placement
conversations | schedule |
blog | email
education and training
routes
articles | interview |
conversations relating to
registration and at the
travel agent’s | forms
Vocabulary Grammar
personal details | dreams recap of modal verbs in the
and plans | evaluating sentence
things
job-related activities perfect: function, auxiliary
verbs haben and sein,
past participle | sentence
brackets with the perfect
dates and years recap telling dates | perfect Pronunciation
tense: using haben or sein v > [f] – [w]
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15 GLÜCK GEHABT
Sequence 1 understanding the key accidents body parts | pain | surprise | perfect: participle of verbs
Im Krankenhaus information in reports and joy | regret ending in -ieren, perfect
giving your own report | articles | conversations with participle of separable
describing your health | the doctor | chat | telephone verbs
expressing feelings calls | reporting an accident
Sequence 2 understanding illness having a cold | temporal perfect participle with
Ich bin leider krank recommendations and conjunctions (vor, nach, inseparable verbs | recap of
instructions | making articles | conversations with zu früh/spät) | time (past – auxiliary verbs
arrangements | talking the doctor and in private | present – future)
about illnesses chat | package leaflet
Sequence 3 understanding the key health and fitness sports | tips recap of imperative Pronunciation
Gesund und fit! information in texts | h
understanding short profiles | website |
explanations | providing a adverts | articles |
simple reason | conversations
understanding and giving
recommendations

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16 SHOPPEN GEHEN
Sequence 1 talking about gifts |
Im Kaufhaus understanding information
in the department store |
asking for information |
giving information
Sequence 2 expressing likes and
Kleidung kaufen dislikes | conversations with
sales assistants (buying
clothes) | understanding and
providing information about
your favourite clothes
Sequence 3 conversations with sales
Auf dem Markt assistants (buying
groceries) | making notes
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Themes and texts Vocabulary Grammar
the department store departments in the possessive articles in the
department store | dative
writing on info boards and at the information desk
signs | announcements |
conversations
clothes and fashion clothing | expressions of recap of personal pronouns
evaluation | affirmation in the dative |
conversations with sales the question article
assistants | conversations welcher/welches/welche
about clothes | blog
buying groceries quantities and prices | Pronunciation
qualitative adjectives ich and ach sounds
conversations with sales
assistants | website
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17 WIR FAHREN WEG
Sequence 1 understanding key
Ein Wochenende in … information in written
passages | planning an
activity | giving information
about locations
Sequence 2 understanding quotations
Reisevorbereitungen and requesting information
in writing | talking about
travel arrangements |
making complaints
Sequence 3 understanding simple
Wie ist das Wetter? weather reports |
expressing feelings |
talking about the weather
and seasons
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Themes and texts
travel information
short descriptions of tourist
attractions | chat |
conversations |
announcements | email |
train connections
travelling
travel reports | website |
email | talking about travel
plans | talking about
complaints
weather
weather reports |
postcards | chat |
conversations| statistics
Vocabulary Grammar
points of the compass | Wohin? – preposition +
modes of transport accusative
hotel | formal email | recap of Wo? – preposition
travelling | complaints + dative | Wohin stellt/legt/
hängt er …? – preposition +
accusative / Wo steht/liegt/
hängt …? – preposition +
dative
weather Pronunciation
Final-obstruent devoicing
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18 ARBEIT UND MOBILITÄT

Sequence 1 understanding information work and profession jobs and professional linking sentences with und,
Arbeitswelten about jobs and working activities | routines oder, aber, denn: function
hours | understanding radio report | blog | notices | and syntax
notices and signs | voicemail messages | chat
describing daily routines
Sequence 2 gathering and out and about in the city directions | at the station |
Unterwegs in Halle understanding information permission/prohibition
about public transport | articles | conversations |
understanding and giving email | announcements |
directions signs
Sequence 3 understanding and making mobility at work desires | comparison recap of the verb möchten
Leben in Deutschland comparisons | expressing
preferences and desires | articles | conversations |
talking about language email | reporting
learning experiences experiences | statements

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