Unfortunately grammar is essential if you want to learn a language. In each of the building blocks in our building block system there is a certain amount of grammar; however, we recommend participants take some additional lessons in grammar. Once the grammar lessons are ordered, the instructor will include them in the lesson plan in the most logical order possible, or – if the participants prefer – the sequence in which the grammar lessons are taught can be agreed upon before the course begins.
Basic Grammar
- the simple tenses in the active voice
- pronouns
- expressing amounts
- simple prepositions
- adjectives and adverbs
- simple modal verbs
- relative clauses
Intermediate Grammar
- the simple tenses in the passive voice
- modal verbs used in simple delegation
- conditional sentences
- the proper use of articles
- plurals and genitives
- the comparative and superlative
- two part verbs
- indirect speech
Advanced Grammar
- complex sentence construction
- complex delegation
- subject-verb agreement
- proper punctuation
- separable and inseparable verbs
- gerunds and participles
Translation Skills
- German-English, English-German
- abbreviating correctly
