70: Sie geben dir keine Arbeit | They don’t give you a job
Vocab for games, application documents & personal pronouns in the dative: mir, dir, ihm.
Paul is bowling with his parents and talks about his career plans. His lie that he knew what job he wanted all along goes undetected. Tim writes that he doesn’t have any news about Fritz either.
70: Sie geben sie dir keine Arbeit
Vocab for games and application documents
Personal pronouns in the dative: mir, dir, ihm
69: Paul will Autor werden | Paul wants to become an author
Make a decision based on simple job descriptions & sum-up: all dative and accusative prepositions and their contractions.
Paul discovers for himself that he wants to be an author. So today he plans to write 20 applications and tell his mother about it. But the chances to become an author are slim.
69: Paul will Autor werden
Make a decision based on simple job descriptions
Sum-up: all dative and accusative prepositions and their contractions
68: Horror-Crash auf Oktoberfest! | Horror crash at Oktoberfest!
Understand an article in a tabloid newspaper & fusion of prepositions and articles: am, beim, im, vom, zum, zur, ins.
Paul checks the Whatsapp group to learn about Fritz. He thinks Meili might find something on Fritz’ Facebook. He reads on a news app about an accident at the Oktoberfest.
68: Horror-Unfall auf Oktoberfest!
Understand an article in a tabloid newspaper
Fusion of prepositions and articles: am, beim, im, vom, zum, zur, ins
67: Welchen Job will er machen? | What job does he want to do?
Career planning, interest-based words & question word: welch-.
Paul thinks about which job he wants and finds help in the job book he got from Anna. It was her present for Pauls birthday which she had angrily slammed on the table at the buffet in Berlin. He wants to do “something with writing, texts and words”. He starts enthusiastically, but quickly gives up because he thinks you can’t make any money with that. Then he writes Laura. She briefly answers that she won’t have time for him in the near future. Paul wants to wait until she writes again. Is Paul too aimless? Or why does Laura have no more time for him?
67: Welchen Job will er machen?
Career planning, interest-based words
Question word: welch-
66: Der Freund, den Paul sucht | The friend that Paul is looking for
Talk about social problem areas and career choices, tip the waitress & subordinate clause with accusative (der Mann, den ich sehe).
Paul is out with Laura when she tells him that Fritz always dreamed of owning a holiday home by the beach, maybe on the North Sea or Baltic Sea. Laura asks about Paul’s job.
66 | Der Freund, den Paul sucht
Talk about social problem areas and career choices, tip the waitress
Subordinate clause with accusative (der Mann, den ich sehe)
65: Opa hat ihn nie wieder gesehen… | Grandpa never saw him again…
Compare things, talk about the past & comparative and superlative.
Paul sets up the date with Laura. Grandpa is still going on about former times. He starts talking about books that were banned in the GDR, former East Germany. That’s when he remembers THE book. Paul lies again: he says the book is at home.
65 | Opa hat ihn nie wieder gesehen…
Compare things, talk about the past
Comparative & superlative
64: Opa wollte weg aus der DDR | Grandpa wanted to leave the GDR
Explain economics and politics in very simple words & temporal prepositions: ab; von … bis; zwischen.
Everyone thinks that the sticker on Fritz’s garage door opener is in the shape of a lake. Therefore, Paul looks for it on the internet. But he cannot find such a lake in all of Germany.
64 | Opa wollte weg aus der DDR
Explain economics and politics in very simple words
Temporal prepositions: ab; von … bis; zwischen
63: Das Oktoberfest | The Oktoberfest
Tell a story about the past, make conclusions & temporal prepositions: vor, nach, seit.
Paul’s mom feels guilty because he got fired and so she transferred € 500 to his account. He pretends to know what kind of job he wants and says he’ll tell her next time.
63 | Das Oktoberfest
Tell a story about the past, make conclusions
Temporal prepositions: vor, nach, seit
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62: Das Date mit Laura | The date with Laura
Emphasize the negative aspects of a person, make a friendly suggestion & Substituite forms for the imperative: Nicht so viel trinken! / Lass uns das nehmen!
Paul writes his mother that he wants to borrow 500 € from her. He lies and says it’s for new clothes for a job interview – not for the Oktoberfest.
62 | Das Date mit Laura
Emphasize the negative aspects of a person, make a suggestion
Substituite forms for the imperative: Lass uns das nehmen!
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61: Die Hosen passen zu den Hemden | The pants match the shirts
Make suggestions and give commands & Imperative with Sie: kommen Sie / suggestion with wir: gehen wir.
Paul is buying new clothes to be prepared in case he is invited to a job interview. He doesn’t have a lot of money, so he doesn’t want to buy much. But he gets too excited.
61 | Die Hosen passen zu den Hemden
Make suggestions and give commands
Imperative with Sie: kommen Sie & suggestion with wir: gehen wir
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