Upgrade your German

Do you want to increase your chances of getting a top grade in your German exam? Upgrade your German offers a thirty-day revision programme that is guaranteed to improve your results. In the countdown to your exams, simply spend between 30 minutes and an hour a day with this book, and see your mark upgrade.

This short revision guide focuses on three key strategies for improving your exam results: eliminating basic errors and slips of the pen; increasing and consolidating your vocabulary; and improving the style and quality of your German.

List 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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Annemarie Kunzl-Snodgrass, Kunzl-Snodgrass Annemarie, Silke Mentchen, Mentchen Silke
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2003
• EAN: 9780340806623
• ISBN: 978-0-340-80662-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 338 g
• Series: Upgrade Your...
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Literature: history & criticism, Language: reference & general, Language: reference and general, Language teaching and learning, Literature: history and criticism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT)