A2: Elementary

The 16 units

• Unit 1

  ErinnerungenMemories

  You can talk about your childhood, school days and important life events; use verbs with inseparable prefixes like bekommen, vergessen and erzählen; form the Perfekt of -ieren verbs and inseparable verbs without ge-.

• Unit 2

  Warum? Weil ...Why? Because ...

  You can give reasons with weil; give your opinion with Ich finde, dass ... and Ich glaube, dass ...; talk about conditions with wenn.

• Unit 3

  Körper und PflegeBody and self-care

  You can describe your morning routine with reflexive verbs; choose between accusative and dative reflexive pronouns (ich wasche mich, ich wasche mir die Hände); talk about feelings like being happy, annoyed or stressed.

• Unit 4

  Wo? Wohin?Where? Where to?

  You can say where things are with Wo? and the dative; say where you put things with Wohin? and the accusative; use stellen and stehen, legen and liegen, setzen and sitzen, hängen.

• Unit 5

  Mode und StilFashion and style

  You can describe clothes with adjectives after der, die, das (der schwarze Mantel); use the same endings after dieser, jeder, welcher and alle; shop for clothes: ask about sizes, colours and trying things on.

• Unit 6

  Geschenke und FesteGifts and celebrations

  You can describe gifts with adjectives after ein, kein and mein (ein neues Handy); invite people, accept and decline politely; talk about German festivals and congratulate people.

• Unit 7

  Kochen und GenießenCooking and enjoying

  You can describe food with adjectives without an article (frischer Fisch, mit kaltem Wasser); use adjectives after numbers and after viele and einige; read a recipe and a menu.

• Unit 8

  Stadt oder Land?City or country?

  You can compare places and things with the comparative and als; say what is the best, biggest or most beautiful with the superlative; use the irregular forms of gut, viel, gern, hoch and nah.

• Unit 9

  Pläne und ZukunftPlans and the future

  You can talk about plans, intentions and resolutions; make predictions, for example about the weather or your career; use werden to say what someone or something becomes.

• Unit 10

  Im BüroAt the office

  You can describe office tasks and everyday work routines; ask colleagues for things and pass things on; put two objects and pronouns in the right order.

• Unit 11

  Pech gehabt!Bad luck!

  You can describe everyday mishaps and their consequences; report a defect and ask for a repair, an exchange or a refund; make a polite complaint on the phone or in writing.

• Unit 12

  Damals und heuteThen and now

  You can talk about how life and technology have changed; use als and wenn correctly when talking about the past; describe timelines with während, bis, seit, seitdem and sobald.

• Unit 13

  Auf dem AmtAt the authorities

  You can ask for information politely at an office or authority; use indirect questions with ob and with question words; understand and fill in the key fields of an official form.

• Unit 14

  Freizeit und InteressenLeisure and interests

  You can talk about your interests, hobbies and clubs; use common verbs with fixed prepositions; ask about things with wo-compounds and about people with preposition + wen or wem.

• Unit 15

  Arbeit suchenLooking for work

  You can understand job ads and describe a job; talk about your experience, strengths and weaknesses in an interview; express wishes, plans and obligations with zu + infinitive.

• Unit 16

  Wünsche und RatschlägeWishes and advice

  You can express wishes and dreams; give advice with du solltest and an deiner Stelle; make polite requests with könnten, würden and hätten.

Exam practice

• Goethe-style A2 mock exam: Hören, Lesen, Schreiben, Sprechen
• Goethe-style A2 mock exam 2: Hören, Lesen, Schreiben, Sprechen
• Goethe-style A2 mock exam 3: Hören, Lesen, Schreiben, Sprechen

Exam practice follows the style of the Goethe-Zertifikat exams. Masar Deutsch is not affiliated with, approved by or endorsed by the Goethe-Institut, and its mock exams are not official papers.

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