Using German Vocabulary
Cambridge University Press, 5/27/2004
EAN 9780521797009, ISBN10: 0521797004
Paperback, 598 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 3.4 cm
Language: English
This textbook provides a comprehensive and thematically structured vocabulary for students of German. Designed for all but the very beginning levels of undergraduate study, it offers a broad range of vocabulary, and is divided into 20 manageable units dealing with the physical, social, cultural, economic, and political world. The word lists are graded into three levels that reflect difficulty and likely usefulness, and are accompanied by extensive exercises and activities, designed to reinforce work done with the lists, and to increase students' competence in using the vocabulary. Suitable for both classroom teaching and private study, the exercises also make use of authentic German texts, enabling students to work with the vocabulary in context. Clearly organized and accessible, Using German Vocabulary is designed to meet the needs of a variety of courses at multiple stages of any undergraduate programme.
1. Towns and buildings, household, gardens
2. The physical world, the animal world, weather
3. The human body and health, the health service and medicine
4. Physical appearance, gesture and movement
5. Personality and human behavior
6. Clothes, accessories and grooming, food and drink
7. Perception, color and light, materials and textures
8. Shapes and patterns, size and quantity, containers, time
9. Visual and performing arts, media and popular culture
10. Literature and literary criticism, speaking, reading and writing
11. Leisure, sport
12. Tourism, travel and transport
13. Family, birth, death, and marriage, religion
14. Education, science
15. Agriculture, industry
16. Business and commerce, employment
17. The office and computing, post and telecommunications
18. Law, finance
19. Geography, history, war, and peace
20. Politics and international relations, public services, social and environmental issues
Answers to the exercises.