LESSON NOTES

Survival Phrases S1 #45

Do you have an English
information guide.

CONTENTS
2 German
2 English
2 Vocabulary
3 Sample Sentences
3 Grammar
4 Cultural Insight

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 GERMAN

1. Haben Sie eine Informationsbroschüre auf Deutsch?

2. Haben Sie eine Informationsbroschüre auf Französisch?

3. Haben Sie eine Informationsbroschüre auf Japanisch?

4. Habt ihr eine Informationsbroschüre auf Englisch?

5. Habt ihr einen Guide auf Englisch?

ENGLISH

1. Do you have a German information guide?

2. Do you have a French information guide?

3. Do you have a Japanese information guide?

4. Do you have an English information guide?

5. Do you have an English guide? (informal)

VOCABULARY

Ge r man English C lass Ge nde r

haben Sie (formal);

hast du (singular
informal); habt ihr do you have phrase
(plural informal)

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 plural:
Informationsbroschür
information guide noun; feminine, die Informationsbroschür
e
en

Deutsch German language noun, neuter, das

Französisch French language

Japanisch Japanese noun; neuter, das no plural

Englisch English language noun, neuter, das

SAMPLE SENTENCES

H a st d u /H a be n S i e Mi l ch ? Im In fo rm a ti o n sbü ro fi n d e st d u e i n e
In fro m a ti o n sbro sch ü re .
Do you have milk?
At the information desk you can find an
information guide.

D e u tsch i st e i n e i n te re ssa n te Ich spre ch e ke i n En g l i sch , a be r i ch

S pra ch e . spre ch e Fra n zö si sch .

German is an interesting language. I do not speak English, but I speak French.

Mu tte rspra ch l e r bi e te t g ü n sti g e n Ich h a be m i r Fra n zö si sch se l bst

Fra n zö si sch u n te rri ch t. be i g e bra ch t.

Native speaker offers cheap French I taught myself French.

lessons.

Ka rl a ka n n a u ch J a pa n i sch Kö n n e n S i e bi tte m i t m i r En g l i sch

spre ch e n . spre ch e n ?

Karla can also speak Japanese. Could you please speak English with me?

S pri ch st d u En g l i sch ?

Do you speak English?

GRAMMAR

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In today’s lesson we’ll introduce you to a crucial phrase for travellers who are interested in
learning more about the tourist attractions you’re going to visit. Learning about the history and
the cultural significance of places you visit can be just as rewarding as seeing them. Today
we’ll cover Haben Sie eine Informationsbroschüre auf Englisch?“Do you have an English
information guide?”

We’ll also provide you with some background on audio guides and a list of popular museums
in Germany’s capital city Berlin.

CULTURAL INSIGHT

Quick Tip #1

If you’re visiting museums, exhibitions or art galleries, you might not be satisfied with just a
small information guide or flyer in your native language or in English, because these
documents usually don’t cover all information. Nowadays modern info guides are not only
printed info guides but they can be also audio guides. So when entering a place you’re
visiting you might be asked: Möchten Sie einen Audioguide? or Benötigen Sie einen
Audioguide? which both mean “Do you want an audio-guide?”

If you are not offered one and you know there are some you can ask for it using nearly the
same phrase of today: Haben Sie einen Audioguide auf Englisch? “Do you have an English
audio-guide?”

Alternatively, you can say: Gibt es eine Audioführung? “Is an audio guide available?“

Quick Tip #2

Germany is famous for its many museums and art galleries. There are so many around that it
would take hours to list all of them. But below is a list with some very famous places you
might come across when in Germany’s capital Berlin:

- check out the Mueseumsinsel “Museum Island” in Berlin; on this World Cultural Hertiage
island you can find the Nationalgalerie (National Gallery), the Pergamon Museum (Egyptian
museum) and the Vorderasiatisches Museum (Middle East museum) among others

- the Jüdisches Museum (Jewish Museum) with its permanent exhibition on 2.000 years of
Jewish-German history.

- DDR Museum “Museum of the former GDR”; in this interactive museum you will be set
back to the time between 1949 and 1989, when Germany was split into an east and a west
part. Here you’ll get to know important facts about communist east Germany (GDR).

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- and the Naturkundemuseum (Museum of Natural Science) with it’s 30 million natural
history objects.

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