Kultur, Kunst und Geschichte

Talk about culture and history, narrate a sequence of past events, and describe artworks or traditions.

Module 5 of German B1 · about 100 minutes · 14 new words.

Lessons in this module

• Vocabulary — Flashcards with spaced repetition
• Grammar — Rules, tables and guided drills
• Reading — Texts with comprehension questions
• Listening — Listen, transcribe, understand
• Writing — Guided tasks with instant feedback
• Speaking — Say it, hear it, get a score
• Conversation — Real conversations, line by line
• Module quiz — Check what this module taught

Grammar in this module

• Plusquamperfekt: what had already happened — The Plusquamperfekt describes an action that had already finished before another past action. It uses hatte/war + past participle.
• Nominalisation: turning verbs into nouns — Formal and written German often turns a verb or adjective into a noun, especially with -ung, -heit, -keit or the infinitive itself.

Vocabulary you will meet

das Jahrhundert · das Denkmal · die Ausstellung · das Gemälde · der Künstler · die Tradition · der Brauch · der Krieg · der Frieden · gründen and 4 more. Every word is stored with its article and an example sentence, then scheduled for review by spaced repetition.

Reading: Die Geschichte einer Kleinstadt. Conversation: Im Stadtmuseum.

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