Using German Vocabulary

Sarah M. B. Fagan

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9780521797009
• eBook ISBN:
  9781139064224
• Topic: Sprachen & Linguistik
• Subtopic: Sprachen

This textbook provides a comprehensive and thematically structured vocabulary for students of German. Designed for all but the very beginning levels of undergraduate study, it offers a broad range of vocabulary, and is divided into 20 manageable units dealing with the physical, social, cultural, economic, and political world. The word lists are graded into three levels that reflect difficulty and likely usefulness, and are accompanied by extensive exercises and activities, designed to reinforce work done with the lists, and to increase students' competence in using the vocabulary. Suitable for both classroom teaching and private study, the exercises also make use of authentic German texts, enabling students to work with the vocabulary in context. Clearly organized and accessible, Using German Vocabulary is designed to meet the needs of a variety of courses at multiple stages of any undergraduate programme.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations and symbols
• Introduction
• Words and word formation
• Unit 1 Towns and buildings
• Unit 2 The physical world
• Unit 3 The human body and health
• Unit 4 Physical appearance
• Unit 5 Personality and human behaviour
• Unit 6 Clothes, accessories and grooming
• Unit 7 Perception
• Unit 8 Shapes and patterns
• Unit 9 Visual and performing arts
• Unit 10 Literature and literary criticism
• Unit 11 Leisure
• Unit 12 Tourism, travel and transport
• Unit 13 Family, birth, death and marriage
• Unit 14 Education
• Unit 15 Agriculture
• Unit 16 Business and commerce
• Unit 17 The office and computing
• Unit 18 Law
• Unit 19 Geography, history, war and peace
• Unit 20 Politics and international relations
• Key to exercises