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Upper Intermediate S1
German Holidays

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Vocabulary
Phrase Usage
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Grammar Points 4
Cultural Insight 4
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Jones So das war‘s! Ich wünsch Ihnen alles Gute, Frau Bayer!
Bayer Was?! Haben Sie gekündigt?
Jones Nein, keine Sorge. Ich habe nicht gekündigt. Ich habe ab morgen
Urlaub.
Bayer Ach so. Mensch, Sie haben mich aber erschreckt! Ich dachte schon, wir
arbeiten hier Tag für Tag zusammen und Sie erzählen mir nicht, dass Sie
hier aufhören!
Jones Oh, tut mir leid. Das wollte ich nicht. Ich freue mich nur so, weil ich ab
morgen im Urlaub bin!
Bayer Wohin fahren Sie denn?
Jones Ich werde zwei Wochen durch Europa reisen und mir verschiedene
Städte angucken. Schritt für Schritt durch Europa also.
Bayer Wow, das hört sich interessant an. Und welche Städte besuchen Sie?
Jones Also zuerst fliege ich nach Amsterdam und Paris. Danach geht es noch
nach Wien und Prag und dann wieder zurück nach Berlin.
Bayer Wow, das ist ja eine tolle Route! Dann sehen Sie nach und nach viele
tolle Städte.
Jones Ja, ich hoffe doch, dass sie toll sind. Waren Sie schon in einer dieser
Städte?
Bayer Ich war in Amsterdam, in Wien und in Paris. Aber ich habe die Städte
einzeln besucht, eine nach der anderen.
Jones Und welche Stadt fanden Sie am besten?
2 Bayer Hmm, Paris!
Jones Aaah, die Stadt der Liebe…haha….
Bayer Haha, ja!

English
Jones So that's it! I wish you all the best, Mrs. Bayer!
Bayer What?! Did you quit?
Jones No, don't worry. I didn't quit. I have vacation starting tomorrow.
Bayer Oh. Man, you scared me! I thought, we work here together day by day,
and you didn't tell me that you quit!
Jones Oh, sorry. I didn't want that. I'm just looking forward to being on
vacation tomorrow!
Bayer So, where are you going?

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Jones I'm travelling for two weeks through Europe to check out various cities.
So step by step through Europe.
Bayer Wow, that sounds interesting. And which cities are you visiting?
Jones First I'm flying to Amsterdam and Paris. After that, continuing to
Vienna and Prague, and then back to Berlin.
Bayer Wow, that's quite a nice route! Bit by bit, you'll see a lot of cool cities.
Jones Yeah, I hope so. Have you been to any of those cities?
Bayer I've been to Amsterdam, Vienna, and Paris. But I visited them each
individually, not one after the other.
Jones And which city did you like the best?
Bayer Hmm, Paris!
Jones Aaah, the city of love, haha...
Bayer Haha, yeah!

Vocabulary
German English Notes
Urlaub vacation noun masculine
erschrecken to frighten, scare verb
aufhören to stop verb "auf" splits off
Schritt step noun masculine; plural:
Schritte
danach afterwards conjunction
3 Route route noun feminine; plural: Routen
nach und nach by and by, bit by bit expression
einzeln single, individually, adjective / adverb
seperately
Liebe love noun feminine

Vocabulary Sample Sentences

Ich werde mich um Ihre Blumen kümmern, wenn
Sie im Urlaub sind.
Der Verlust meiner Urlaubsfotos ist wirklich
ärgerlich.
Hör auf deine Schwester zu ärgern!
Kurz danach verstummte die Musik und alle
schauten zur Bühne.
I will take care of your flowers while you're on
holidays.
The loss of my holiday pictures is really
aggravating.
Stop annoying your sister!
Shortly afterwards the music fell silent and
everybody looked towards the stage.

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Vocabulary Phrase Usage

1. Alles Gute! (roughly the same as 'Wish you all the best') is a general thing you can say at birthdays,
weddings, wedding anniversaries and so on. If you don't know the specific expression that an occasion
calls for, "Alles Gute" is never wrong.
2. The "denn" in "Wohin fahren Sie denn?" does NOT mean "then" in this case. Rather, I'd translate it
as "so" - "So where are you going?". It's an invitation to say more.
3. „Eine nach der anderen“ means „one after the other“. It's almost like in English, except you have to
adjust this expression for the gender of the implied noun. So with cities (die Stadt) you'd indeed say
„eine nach der anderen“, but for men you'd have to say „einer nach dem anderen“ and for things you'd
have to say „eins nach dem anderen“. „eins nach dem anderen“ is also an idiom, meaning that people
should slow down and finish one thing first.
Grammar Points
The focus of this lesson is Tag für Tag, Schritt für Schritt, nach und nach etc.
Schritt für Schritt durch Europa
"Step by step through Europe"

Today let's look at how to express graduality in German. Things like „day by day“, „month after
4 month“, „year after year“...
In most cases, German uses the word „für“ to connect words this way. Tag für Tag, Woche für Woche,
Monat für Monat, Jahr für Jahr.
This also applies to the expression „Schritt für Schritt“ (step by step).
However, it does not apply to „nach und nach“. „nach und nach“ is a set expression meaning „by and
by“ or „bit by bit“, and as you heard, this is irregular because there's an „und“ in the middle - „nach
und nach“.

Cultural Insight
Germans on vacation

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Mallorca (island in the mediterranean sea) is the most popular holiday destination for those
craving sun and booze
- Northern Italy or the Garda lake are also popular for that
- „Balkonien“ („balconia“) is what you call the holiday destination of people who can't afford to go
anywhere but do as if they were tourists in their own city
- Germans like to travel abroad, even outside the EU if they can afford to. A situation like in the
USA, where the majority of the population doesn't even have a passport, is unimaginable.
- one habit of German tourists is to „claim“ patches on the beach or the chairs by putting a towel
out there early in the morning and then leave for breakfast or whatever
- another characteristic is that they can't cope with „relaxed“ schedules, such as people or public
transport being more than twenty minutes late on average

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