Upgrade your German / Edition 1

by Silke Mentchen, Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass

Overview

This highly original and pragmatic guide is designed for students at intermediate levels seeking a better grade on their German exams. It offers a thirty-day revision program that is guaranteed to improve one's results. Students are encouraged to spend anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour with the book as exams approach and they should see a marked improvement in performance. Short, accessible, and user-friendly, the book stresses three key strategies for exam improvement: eliminating basic errors and slips of the pen, increasing and consolidating vocabulary, and moving on from schoolbook German.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780340806623
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/28/2003
Series:	Upgrade Your...
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Language:	German

About the Author

Annemarie Künzl-Snodgrass and Silke Mentchen are both University Language Teaching Officers in German at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Day 1 Key points: cases
Day 2 Vocabulary: describing people
Day 3 Key points: pronouns
Day 4 Vocabulary: family and society
Day 5 Key points: Nouns - genders and plurals
Day 6 Vocabulary: Leisure
Day 7 Key points: relative clauses
Day 8 Vocabulary: film
Day 9 Key points: verb forms
Day 10 Style: Politeness
Day 11 Key points: Adjective endings
Day 12 Vocabulary: City life
Day 13 Key points: Prepositions 1
Day 14 Vocabulary: Europe
Day 15 Key points: Prepositions 2
Day 16 Vocabulary: Migration
Day 17 Key points: verbs and prepositions
Day 18 Vocabulary: Talking about academic subjects
Day 19 Key points: Tenses and irregular verbs
Day 20 Vocabulary: Education
Day 21 Key points: time expressions
Day 22 Vocabulary: History and dates
Day 23 Key points: Word order and textual cohesion
Day 24 Vocabulary: Literature
Day 25 Key points: Passive
Day 26 Style: Nominalization
Day 27 Vocabulary: Environment
Day 28 Key points: Conditionals
Day 29 Style: Reported speech
Day 30 Bumper self-test