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  • Week 1: Frühstück!
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  • Week 1: Frühstück!
  • Introduction
  • Open Centre for Languages and Cultures
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  • Week 1
  • Introduction
  • 1 At the breakfast table
  • 2 Let’s have breakfast!
  • 3 Practising the irregular verb essen
  • 4 Was essen Sie zum Frühstück?
  • 5 Was essen Sie zum Frühstück?
  • 6 The irregular verb nehmen
    • 6.1 Checking verb forms in your dictionary
  • 7 Wurstsorten, Brotsorten
  • 8 Food vocabulary
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    9 This week’s quiz
  • 10 Summary of Week 1
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  • Week 1 practice quiz
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  • 1 The adverb gern
  • 2 gern, sehr gern, nicht gern
  • 3 What do you like to eat?
  • 4 My favourite cuisine
  • 5 More likes and dislikes
  • 6 Pronunciation
  • 7 Writing about likes and dislikes
  • 8 This week’s quiz
  • 9 Summary of Week 2
  • Next steps
  • Acknowledgements
  • Week 2 practice quiz

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