Curriculum

Greeting, saying goodbye, and answering "Wie geht es dir?".

Name, age, where you are from, where you live, what you do for a living.

The conjugated verb takes position 2 — always.

Regular endings, the verbs you already use, and the ones that misbehave.

The past tense people actually speak: haben/sein + Partizip II.

werden + infinitive — and why you often do not need it.

können, müssen, wollen, dürfen, möchten — and the bracket they create.

Yes/no questions start with the verb; W-questions start with the question word.

nicht negates verbs and specifics; kein negates nouns.

der → den, ein → einen, kein → keinen. The rest barely moves.

Give a reason, and watch the verb fall to the end.

Four prepositions you use constantly — all of them take the dative.

mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer, Ihr — they follow the ein pattern.

aufstehen, anrufen, einkaufen — and where the prefix ends up.

Numbers, prices in euros, and paying at a counter.

Wie spät ist es? — plus um, am and im.

Months, dates, birthdays, and reading a date on an appointment.

immer, oft, manchmal, selten, nie — and where they sit.

in, nach, zu, aus, von, bei — matching the preposition to the question.

The same preposition, two cases — and the case is the meaning.

größer, besser, lieber — plus als for "than".

und, aber, oder, denn — connectors that change nothing.

Reporting what you think, know or believe — and the verb goes last again.

One sentence, several grammar points — the way German really works.

Fast retrieval of the words the lessons keep leaning on.

Hear a sentence, write it down. Spelling, vocabulary and grammar at once.

Ich freue mich, du freust dich — the pronoun follows the subject.

in, an, auf, unter, über, vor, hinter, neben, zwischen.

Komm! Kommt! Kommen Sie! — three forms, one for each "you".

gesehen, gesprochen, genommen — and when to reach for sein.

Das Auto ist schnell — and a first taste of ein guter Freund.

Wenn ich Zeit habe, spiele ich Videospiele.

Ordering, asking prices, and buying without pointing.

Getting there, and having somewhere to sleep when you do.

Making arrangements, declining politely, and getting unstuck.

Making an appointment, saying what hurts, and buying medicine.

Reflexives, two-way prepositions, wenn and Perfekt, all in one place.

Every noun has a gender. Tendencies help; the article is still part of the word.

die Tische, die Frauen, die Kinder — five patterns, and die for all of them.

Where gender actually earns its keep: choosing den, dem, einen or einer.

mich, dich, ihn, sie, es, uns, euch — the direct object.

mir, dir, ihm, ihr, uns, euch, ihnen — the receiver.

Let the verb decide. Deciding case from meaning, not from memory.

Endings after der/die/das in the nominative, accusative and dative.

Hallo … Bis morgen! Short informal messages that sound like a person, not a textbook.

Sehr geehrte … Mit freundlichen Grüßen. The formal frame, and what changes inside it.

Mixed sentences drawing on Lessons 1–21, with nothing flagged in advance.

Ich war müde. Ich hatte keine Zeit. Ich konnte nicht kommen.

ein guter Freund · einen guten Freund · mit einem guten Freund · keine guten Freunde.

Joining two sentences with der, die, das — and choosing the right pronoun.

hätte · wäre · würde · könnte · möchte — requests, wishes and preferences.

als for a single past event, wenn for habits, conditions and the future.

Ich konnte nicht kommen, weil … · Könnten wir den Termin verschieben?

Letztes Wochenende war ich … Dann habe ich … Als ich … — short connected accounts.

Sentences that need two or three A2 concepts at once, with A1 grammar underneath.

mit dem · mit der · mit denen · auf den — the preposition comes first.

Wenn ich mehr Zeit hätte, würde ich mehr Deutsch lernen.

Das Auto wird repariert. Deutsch wird hier gesprochen.

des und der · wegen des Wetters · während der Woche.

Ich lerne Deutsch, um in Deutschland zu arbeiten. · Ich spreche langsam, damit du mich verstehst.

Ich warte auf den Bus. Woran denkst du? Ich denke daran.

Saying how long it has been going on, what you have already tried, and getting signed off.

Something is wrong with the order: saying so, asking for it to be put right, and making sure you understood.

Saying who you are, why you are calling, and what to do when you cannot hear.

Appointments, flats, shopping and messages — reading for the point and for the detail.

A day in the home office, a weekend away, learning German, a bike in the workshop.

Problems, descriptions, purposes and hypotheticals — several concepts per sentence.

Phase 1 and Phase 2 together, two or three concepts per sentence.

Wenn ich mehr Zeit gehabt hätte, hätte ich mehr Deutsch gelernt.

dessen for masculine and neuter, deren for feminine and plural.

Write down what you hear, and answer questions about single sentences.

Thirty to ninety seconds of connected German, with questions about what was said.

Past counterfactuals and dessen/deren, mixed with both earlier phases.

Sequencing events with zuerst, dann, plötzlich and schließlich — and saying what had already happened.

Subordinate time clauses, the word order they force, and which one the chronology calls for.

Stating a view, supporting it, weighing two sides, and the word order deshalb and trotzdem force.

One shape, many uses — including what happens when the verb is separable.

Present, past and Perfekt passive, modal passive, and turning an active sentence into a passive one.

Prepositions and cases inside a relative clause, plus the two forms that replace them: wo and was.

Personal accounts, a workplace email and a forum post: following a story and pinning down who and what is meant.

A news report and two argued texts: telling fact from position, and following an argument that has two sides.

Short spoken items you meet in real life: a platform announcement, a voicemail, a message at work.

Longer spoken passages — something that went wrong, someone explaining why they think what they think.

Narration, opinion, passive and relative clauses, reached for under pressure rather than practised one at a time.

Several concepts per sentence — narration, opinion, passive, infinitives and relative clauses in one place.

Two ways to concede a point and one way to state a result — each with its own word order.

Saying that two things rise or fall together, and getting both halves of the word order right.

Turning a direct question into a polite one, with the verb at the end and ob for yes/no.

Turning a real conversation into a report — and reading a report back into what was actually said.

Ich lasse mein Auto reparieren — the verb that lets you say who actually did the work.

Partizip I for something going on, Partizip II for something finished — both with normal endings.

Choosing the phrasing that fits the reader — and spotting the one that is correct but too direct.

Structured writing you can be marked on, plus free writing you check yourself against a model.

A workplace complaint, a balanced review and a travel story: following someone who is weighing things up.

A personal method, a study with critics, and an advice column — reading for what is claimed and how well.

Ninety seconds of German at a time: what the speaker wants, why, and what happens next.

Phase 1 and Phase 2 together, with A1 and A2 grammar carrying the weight underneath.

Contrast, consequence, indirect questions, reported speech, lassen and participles — plus the older grammar underneath.

A short receptive topic: understanding wird … gemacht haben, and the signal words that go with it.

The phrases that carry a formal message, the order they go in, and how to be insistent without being rude.

Longer tasks that need several structures at once, in the shapes the exam uses.

er sei, er habe, er komme — the forms journalism uses, and what they signal that dass does not.

entscheiden → die Entscheidung. Recognising the pattern, undoing it, and knowing when each style belongs.

Five connectors that let you state a case, a proviso, an exception or a concession precisely.

Das Problem kann gelöst werden — or lässt sich lösen, or ist lösbar. Three forms, three different emphases.

Learning the verb and its preposition as one chunk, and replacing the object with darauf, davon, womit.

Whole clauses folded in between the article and the noun, and how to turn them back into relative clauses.

Paired commentary, interview and forum writing on home office, AI in school and housing — read side by side.

Connected speech: what the speaker thinks, what they actually want, and what follows from what.

Six moves that structure any B2 argument, the connectors that signal them, and free writing you check against a model.

Short connected scenarios that use Konjunktiv I, nominal style, conditions, passive alternatives and participial phrases together.

Everything from the first six B2 lessons, shuffled — plus reading and argument questions that need more than one of them.

wäre sinnvoller gewesen, hätte reagieren müssen, ich würde argumentieren — the mood of evaluation.

sollen and wollen for claims, müssen, dürften and können for how sure you are.

Die Aufgabe ist zu erledigen versus Wir haben viel zu erledigen — and how both compare with müssen and the passive.

High-value formal collocations, what they mean, and the plain verb behind each one.

Choosing what to foreground, and recognising the small words that carry attitude.

Contrast, consequence, addition and qualification — and why the connectors within each group are not swappable.

A commentary, an interview and a letter on the same question — who claims what, who concedes what, and where they actually differ.

Survey tables read for trend, comparison and — above all — for what they do not show.

Named turns read aloud by one voice: track the argument, not the speaker’s timbre.

The attribution phrases, the discipline of leaving things out, and the line between reporting and arguing.

Konjunktiv I and subjective modals, formal reformulation, hypothetical evaluation and data checking, in one place.

Everything B2 teaches, shuffled, with the emphasis on reformulation and sources rather than isolated forms.

Saying how certain you are, and putting distance between yourself and a claim you are only reporting.

Reading noun phrases with several modifiers stacked inside them, and unpacking them without changing the meaning.

The prepositional phrases formal writing uses instead of subordinate clauses, and the judgement of when to use them.

Reading the attitude a particle adds, and choosing the one that fits the situation.

High-value links for written German, chosen by the exact relationship they express.

Turning one content into the version a particular reader and text type expects.

Holding an argument in mind across a dozen paragraphs, and telling the author’s view from the views they report.

Positions, overlap, contradiction, and combining sources without misrepresenting any of them.

Around 200 words at a time: what is being claimed, how strongly, and what the speaker declines to claim.

Summarising a source fairly, combining several, and then arguing — in that order.

Tasks that need reading, reformulation, register and attribution together.

One pass across the six lessons, weighted towards reformulation and precision.

Framing objections, conclusions and criticism so that they can be discussed rather than defended.

Why one ordering is more coherent than another, and how to repair subject-first prose.

The es-frames of formal German: what each one claims, and when the personal version is better.

Picking up what came before, signalling where a text is going, and not over-signposting.

Choosing between words a dictionary lists together, in four fields where the choice changes the claim.

Recognising translated German, and restructuring instead of transcribing.

What the argument rests on, what it leaves unsaid, and how strong its evidence actually is.

Weighing a document against a stakeholder against a dataset, and keeping a synthesis accurate.

Longer recordings with several speakers, and questions about structure rather than detail.

Writing from several sources at length, and qualifying your own conclusion.

Full C1 tasks that need reading, reformulation, cohesion, lexis and register together.

One pass across twelve lessons, weighted towards what C1 is actually for.