Upgrade Your German

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

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 moving on from school-book German.

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