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1 languages and biographies

1 German teacher in Singapore

a) Who does what? Read the texts and tick.

Dr. Chan Wai Meng is from Singapore. He speaks Chinese,

English and German, loves traveling and is interested in
Foreign languages. After school, he has at first without a teacher
Learn German and then German courses at the Goethe-Institut
visited. In 1982 he went to Germany and joined the
University in Würzburg studied German literature and language. Later he has in
Kassel studied German as a foreign language and graduated in 2000.
In Germany he also got to know his wife. Han Jing is from Taiwan.
She speaks Chinese, English and German and also has German in Würzburg
educated. Today she is an expert on traditional Chinese medicine. Wai Meng
now teaches German as a foreign language. He is the director of the Language Center
the National University of Singapore.

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Chen Ing Ru comes from Taiwan. She speaks German, English and
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of course Chinese too. Actually, her career aspiration was
teacher, but then she decided to speak German.
four First, she spent four years at Fu-Jen University in Taiwan
educated. She also played theater in German! From-
Speech exercises have been a lot of fun. After this
She studied in Taiwan at the University of Trier
Studied phonetics. She spent a few years in Taipei learning German as a foreign language.
directs and lives since 1996 with her husband in Singapore. They have two children and
speak Chinese at home. In the first years in Singapore, Ing Ru am
Goethe-Institut worked. Since 2000 she teaches at the National University in
Language Center German.

Andrea Verry is from Germany. At school, she has

Learned French and French. After her graduation is
she traveled a lot. She is first for a year as an au pair to Paris
went. She dreamed in Paris, she studies in Hamburg
Russian. That's what she really did! she also has Rio
studied three semesters in St. Petersburg. Back in Hamburg she has her husband
met. He is from Indonesia and studied in Hamburg. Andrea has
then learned Indonesian and also obtained a degree in German as a Foreign
language made. Today, Andrea and Rio live with their two children in Singapore.
Rio works at a German company and Andrea teaches at the German
School and at the National University German.
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ai Meng
W Han JingIng Ru AndreaRio
1. ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ... has studied a foreign language.
■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ... has learned German as a foreign language.
Second
Third■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ... now lives abroad.
■ ■ ■ ■ ... taught German at the Goethe-Institut.
4th
5th ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ... got to know the partner in Germany.
6th ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ... studied abroad.
7th ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ... speaks five languages.
8th. ■ ✗ ■ ■ ✗ ■ ✗ ■ ... teaches in Singapore German.
9th ■ ■ ■ ■ ... first learned German without a teacher.

b) What fits together? Connect.

a because he is a foreign language

Ing Ru has in Germany
Interested.
Studied phonetics, 1
b because the pronunciation exercises in
Wai Meng teaches today
Theater games were a lot of fun.
German at the Sprachenzentrum, 2
c because they speak Russian as a foreign language
Wai Meng learned German, 3 unit
studied.
Andrea has Indonesian 1
d because he spoke German as a foreign
learned, 4
studied language.
Andrea was in semester three
e because the mother tongue of their
St. Petersburg, 5
Man is.
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five
2 Who is this? Arrange the gray-marked words. Do you know the person?

He is GENBERO on November 25, 1844 in Karlsruhe born 1.

After his ITUSDUM 2 in engineering he has
first in various companies GEABRTIEET 3 . since
In 1871 he had his own WKRETTAST with a business partner

4 for mechanics in Mannheim. He already has that

first LPA 5 made for a car.
In 1877 he built a 1-horsepower gas engine. 1885 was the first OUTA 6
finished. It had only three RDEÄR 7 : front one and two behind. So
you could drive it better. But humans have not forgotten the inventor.

stood. In 1888 he has his FINERDNUG 8 hours a day for two hours
an AULL 9 shown in Munich. The ZIETNUGEN

10 wrote very good articles about the car, but none

it wanted KFUAEN 11 . An RJHA 12 later, on the
World's Fair in Paris, it was not much SSEBER 13 .
In 1892 he started plans for a four-wheeled car. And that was one

Success! In 1900, the FARMI 14 already 603 different

Car types produced. The inventor is Carl Friedrich ZNBE 15 .

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3 Word field Education and occupation. Which verb fits the words?
Complement and make the right verb form and time.
would have Jun Wei finally succeed ! He
 1. After more than ten years working in the lab
has an important invention in the last month , morning

he made an appointment in an international company. He introduces his invention.

2. Peter is from Bern and works for a major computer company in Geneva.
He Colleagues from around the world and often serving
travel , especially to China and India. There his company many

Cooperation partner .

3. Erika trained as a medical shoemaker four years ago

, you now a small workshop in Würzburg.

There she shoes for people with foot problems. you

Customers throughout Europe.

4. Ahmad get a study place in Darmstadt. There

he still has a German course before his first semester . He learns

unit 1 also English and would like to spend a semester abroad in Switzerland
,
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4 Comparative. Complete.
six he goes more often to the movies.
1. Peter often goes to the theater, but
2. Eva speaks good Chinese, but Russian.

3. Tom pays a lot for his language course, but for his
Vacation.

4. Mr. Moll likes to work in sales, but at the computer.

5. I'm walking fast in the office, but with the bike there.

5 Compare with as. Which adjectives fit? Complete.

healthy - old - modern - far - large - fast - famous

1. An elephant is greater than a mouse.

2nd salad is Fries.

3. The pyramids are in Egypt the Cologne Cathedral.

4. The Mona Lisa is international Madonna.

5. The MP3 player is the CD-player.

6. A car is driving a bus.

7. The way from Munich to Hamburg is the way of

Munich to Berlin.

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6 World records. First complete the superlative. Then write answers

to the questions. Help the information below.

1. Which internet address was

most expensive (expensive)?
■ bThe Internet address business.com
was the most expensive.

2. Which island is
(large)?
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3. Which country is
(long)?
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4. Which University in South America

is (old)?
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■ seven

5. Which German city has

(much) inhabitants?
■

The capital of Germany has almost Marc Ostrofsky from Texas has the address
3340000 inhabitants. She is not just that business.com on December 1, 1999 for
largest city in Germany. Berlin is Sold 7.5 million US dollars.
also the second largest city in Europe. b
a
The University of San Marcos in Lima,
Peru, is over 450 years old. They exist
since 1551
c

Many think Australia is the biggest The country Chile is in the west of South America
Island of the World, but Australia is cheese. In the north of Chile lies Peru, in the
a continent. Greenland is 2.2 Northeast Bolivia and in the east
Million m 2 the largest island in the world. gentina. The land is 4329 km long.
d No other country in the world is longer!
e

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7 Why …? - Because …
a) Write questions with why.

1. ■ b you - do sport - Why do you do sports?

2. ■ Anna - Learn Portuguese -

3. ■ the children - do not play outside -

4. ■ you - drink so much coffee -

5. ■ you - take a German course -

6. ■ - Put on a rain jacket -

b) Arrange the answers.

a) cold - it is - too - is
Because

b) would like to stay - fit - me -

 Because
I want to stay fit.

c) I'm tired - very tired

unit 1 Because
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d) she - a - in - internship - Brazil - year - next - makes
Because
eight

e) raining - it
Because

f) we - study - Austria - in - want

Because

c) Assign the answers from task b) to the questions from task a).

8th "Mom is learning German". Write sentences with because.

1. Many families from abroad live in Germany.

Often the mothers speak little or no German.
They have little contact with Germans.
Often the mothers speak little or no

German, because they have little contact with Germans.

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2. Mothers often can not help children with homework problems

help. They do not understand the language.

Often mothers can not help with homework

3. Especially the mothers of schoolchildren need help. Bavaria has been around since 2003
the project "Mom learns German".

In Bavaria, the project "Mama is learning German" has been around for a few years,

4. Classes are held twice a week in the morning for half a year.
Most children are in the morning at school.

The German lessons take place in the morning,

5. German lessons take place in schools. The mothers can do so the schools
to get to know.
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Classes are in schools,
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6. The project "Mom Learns German" is much more than a language course. The mothers
find in the course also new friends.
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The project is more than a language course,
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9 Michael Sommer meets a new colleague. Arrange the dialog.

■ ■ I also came back from Hong Kong last night.

■ ■ I speak English and still learn Chinese. And you?

■ ■ 1 Hello. Are you new here?

■ ■ Marketing. I organize product sales in Asia.

■ ■ My name is Michael Sommer. Welcome to the company!

■ ■ Where to go?

◆ ■ Thank you! In which department do you work?

◆ ■ To Eastern Europe. That is not so far.
Do you speak many languages?

◆ ■ 2 Yes, I started a week ago.

My name is Elena Krawietz.
◆ ■ In addition to German I speak Polish, that's mine
Mother tongue, English and Russian.
◆ ■ That's interesting. I also have to travel a lot soon.
◆ ■ Marketing? That's my department too. I have you though
never seen here.