Telc-B1-Course Index
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| 1 | Telc-B1-Course Index | Tue Jul 21 2026 | 📙 Index of Telc-B1-Course posts | |
| 2 | B1 Course Guide: Cases & Declension | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Consolidated reference on the genitive case (-s/-es, trotz/wegen), N-Deklination weak masculine nouns, articles used as pronouns, adjectives used as nouns, and the three adjective-ending tables — merged from across the B1 live-class notes. | German B1 telc Course Notes Genitive Declension |
| 3 | B1 Course Guide: Prepositions | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Consolidated guide to German prepositions for telc B1: place/direction and temporal prepositions, genitive prepositions, the Wechselverb PDTA/SDMA case rules, the combined list of verbs with fixed prepositions, and the wo(r)-/da(r)- system. | German B1 telc Course Notes Prepositions |
| 4 | B1 Course Guide: Connectors & Sentence Structure | Sun Jun 28 2026 | A consolidated guide to German word order and connectors for B1: verb-position basics, the weil/da/deshalb/obwohl/trotzdem group, sodass vs. so...dass vs. damit, trotz/wegen, the nachdem/bevor/seit/während/bis tense-sequencing rules, Doppelkonnektoren, and je...desto/umso. | German B1 telc Course Notes Connectors Word Order |
| 5 | B1 Course Guide: Negation (nicht vs. kein) | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Consolidated guide to German negation: when to use kein (its 16 declined forms) versus nicht, how nicht's position in a sentence changes what is being negated, and special cases like es gibt, replacing a negated dative object, and negating the subject. | German B1 telc Course Notes Negation |
| 6 | B1 Course Guide: Verb Tenses (Präteritum, Plusquamperfekt, Futur I) | Sun Jun 28 2026 | A consolidated reference on the German past-tense system: when to use Präteritum vs. Perfekt, how to form regular and irregular Präteritum verbs, a deduplicated irregular-verb table, and the formation/usage of Plusquamperfekt and Futur I. | German B1 telc Course Notes Tenses Präteritum |
| 7 | B1 Course Guide: Passiv (Passive Voice) | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Consolidated guide to German Passiv: the Aktiv→Passiv transformation rule, how Passiv forms across Präsens/Präteritum/Perfekt/Plusquamperfekt (including the critical worden-vs-geworden distinction), modal-verb passive, and how to tell werden/wurde/würde/geworden apart. | German B1 telc Course Notes Passiv Passive Voice |
| 8 | B1 Course Guide: Modal Verbs & Konjunktiv II | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Consolidated guide to modal verbs in Präteritum and Perfekt (including the double-infinitive rule) plus Konjunktiv II — its five uses, formation, the haben/sein vs. würde rule, modal verbs and reflexives in K2, and wenn...würde conditionals. | German B1 telc Course Notes Modal Verbs Konjunktiv II |
| 9 | B1 Course Guide: Infinitive Constructions & Causatives | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Consolidated guide to German infinitive constructions: the core Infinitiv-mit-zu rule and its three exceptions, um...zu vs. damit purpose clauses, brauchen + zu as a müssen-alternative, and the lassen + Infinitiv causative (including its perfect-tense double-infinitive quirk). | German B1 telc Course Notes Infinitiv mit zu lassen |
| 10 | B1 Course Guide: Reflexive Verbs & Dative Quirky-Subject Verbs | Sun Jun 28 2026 | A consolidated guide to German reflexive pronouns (accusative vs. dative), the rule for ignoring prepositional objects, the body-part exception, reflexive verbs in Konjunktiv II, and dative quirky-subject verbs like gefallen and weh tun. | German B1 telc Course Notes Reflexive Verbs Dative |
| 11 | B1 Course Guide: Relativsätze (Relative Clauses) | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Consolidated guide to German relative clauses: the relative pronoun table, the three-step method for finding gender and case, relative clauses with fixed-preposition verbs, and the special patterns with was and wo/woher/wohin. | German B1 telc Course Notes Relativsätze Relative Clauses |
| 12 | B1 Course Guide: Adjectives, Comparison & Participles as Adjectives | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Consolidated guide to German comparative/superlative formation (umlaut and -esten spelling rules, als and so...wie comparisons), the im Gegensatz zu / im Vergleich zu tense rule, the irregular viel-mehr-am meisten comparative, and Partizip I / Partizip II used as attributive adjectives with correct ending agreement. | German B1 telc Course Notes Adjectives Comparative |
| 13 | B1 Course Guide: Writing & Exam Skills | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Consolidated cheat sheet for the telc Schreiben section: formal/informal letter conventions, a worked sample email, the imperative mood, modal particles, B2 vocabulary and connector upgrades, and essay templates for scoring higher. | German B1 telc Course Notes Writing Exam Tips |
| 14 | B1 Course – Video 1: Genitive, Comparative/Superlative & Prepositions Recap | Sun Jun 28 2026 | First live B1 class: a structured recap of A2 grammar before diving into B1 — genitive ('s vs von), comparative/superlative forms, place prepositions, word order with two objects, verbs with fixed prepositions, question-word formation, and dative-subject verbs like gefallen/gehören. | German B1 telc Course Notes Genitive Prepositions Comparative Word Order |
| 15 | B1 Course – Video 2: Infinitiv mit zu & Place Prepositions for Vacations | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Second live B1 class: the full "Infinitiv mit zu" structure (when, how, and when NOT to use zu + infinitive), plus fixed prepositions for talking about vacation destinations (Strand, Meer, Insel, Wald, Berg, Stadt, Land). | German B1 telc Course Notes Infinitiv mit zu Prepositions Vocabulary |
| 16 | B1 Course – Video 3: Reflexive Verbs, Vacation Vocab & Subordinating Connectors | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Third live B1 class: sometimes-reflexive vs. always-reflexive verbs, a large vacation/travel vocabulary set used in a reading-comprehension exercise, and the connector group weil/da, deshalb, trotzdem, and obwohl with their fixed verb-position rules. | German B1 telc Course Notes Reflexive Verbs Connectors Vocabulary Reading Comprehension |
| 17 | B1 Course – Video 4: Obwohl Practice, Dative Locations & Nominalisierung | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Fourth live B1 class: extensive obwohl/weil/da/deshalb/trotzdem sentence-building practice, the angekommen/wartet stationary-vs-movement an-Bahnhof contrast, a vacation reading-comprehension exercise (Maya/Liam/Thomas, Anna/Paula, Rothenburg text), and an introduction to Nominalisierung (turning verbs into das-nouns) with bei/zum and für/zum. | German B1 telc Course Notes Connectors Nominalisierung Prepositions Reading Comprehension |
| 18 | B1 Course – Video 5: Camping Vocabulary, aufpassen auf & Travel Role-Play | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Fifth live B1 class: camping/outdoors vocabulary with a fixed-preposition deep-dive on aufpassen (auf), a listening exercise contrasting driving vs. flying to vacation, the hin/her direction pair and da as a meaningless filler, and an extended travel-agency role-play (Kunde/Mitarbeiter) built from a fully modeled example dialogue. | German B1 telc Course Notes Fixed Prepositions Vocabulary Speaking Practice |
| 19 | B1 Course – Video 6: Modal Verbs in Präteritum & Nominalisierung | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Sixth live B1 class: homework correction drilling müssen vs. "must," indirect questions with ob, and als/ganz with comparatives, followed by modal verbs in the Präteritum (wollte vs. möchte), a deep dive into Nominalisierung with dative quirky-subject verbs like Spaß machen, and railway-station vocabulary with an opposites drill. | German B1 telc Course Notes Modal Verbs Nominalisierung Vocabulary |
| 20 | B1 Course – Video 7: deshalb vs. sodass & Coordinating vs. Subordinating Connectors | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Seventh live B1 class: a smart-home/modern-gadgets listening exercise (door fingerprint locks, standing desks, cargo bikes, language assistants, wireless headphones) followed by a grammar deep dive into deshalb as a synonym of "so dass" (sodass), the emphatic so...dass construction, and the distinction between coordinating and subordinating conjunctions (verb-second vs. verb-final) plus adjective vs. adverb. | German B1 telc Course Notes Connectors Word Order Vocabulary |
| 21 | B1 Course – Video 8: Technik-Vokabular & lassen + Infinitiv (Causative) | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Eighth live B1 class: a large vocabulary set around technology/devices and complaints (charging, repairing, ordering online, customer-service calls), plus the grammar of reflexive verbs with body parts (definite article, not possessive) and the lassen + infinitive causative construction ("to have something done"). | German B1 telc Course Notes Vocabulary lassen Reflexive Verbs |
| 22 | B1 Course – Video 9: Genitive Case with Common Nouns | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Ninth live B1 class: homework review covering lassen + Partizip II, deshalb/deswegen/zodass word order, and email-writing conventions, plus a deep dive into the B1 genitive case — using genitive with common nouns (not just names), the "of"-test for opening a sentence, and the monosyllable/polysyllable rule for choosing -s vs -es endings. | German B1 telc Course Notes Genitive Word Order Email Writing |
| 23 | B1 Course – Video 10: Genitive Wrap-Up, Demonstrative Artikel & trotz/wegen | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Tenth live B1 class: homework correction on genitive (von-to-genitive conversion, -s/-es ending rule), the demonstrative article der/das/die as "this/these," a full shop-complaint role-play with corrections, and the genitive prepositions trotz (despite) and wegen (because of), including their fallback to dative with personal pronouns. | German B1 telc Course Notes Genitive Prepositions Speaking Practice |
| 24 | B1 Course – Video 11: Smart-Home Reading, sodass & the Imperative | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Eleventh live B1 class: a genitive-heavy "smart home" reading text with relative clauses, positive/kritisch text evaluation, the sodass connector drilled through spontaneous sentence combining, a quick trotz/wegen review, and the imperative mood (du/ihr/Sie forms) practiced through everyday commands. | German B1 telc Course Notes Genitive Imperative Connectors |
| 25 | B1 Course – Video 12: Comparison Expressions & Präteritum | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Twelfth live B1 class: tense-specific comparison expressions (im Gegensatz zu früher/heute, im Vergleich zu), correct use of comparative adjectives instead of "mehr + adjective," and an introduction to the Präteritum (simple past) — its usage, conjugation rule for ich/er-sie-es, and the first batch of regular and irregular verb forms. | German B1 telc Course Notes Präteritum Comparatives Verb Conjugation |
| 26 | B1 Course – Video 13: Präteritum Practice & Temporal Prepositions | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Thirteenth live B1 class: continued Präteritum (simple past) practice through reading texts about real people's life stories — spotting and forming irregular verb forms — followed by a new grammar block on temporal (time-related) prepositions: fixed dative prepositions, fixed accusative prepositions, and Wechsel prepositions that default to dative when used with time. | German B1 telc Course Notes Präteritum Prepositions Vocabulary |
| 27 | B1 Course – Video 14: B1 Written Test Session (Vocabulary & Connectors) | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Fourteenth class was largely a supervised written test/exam session rather than a teaching session: a vocabulary "odd one out" task and a sentence-connector exercise requiring students to combine sentences and conjugate the given connector words, with minimal live grammar explanation. | German B1 telc Course Notes Connectors Vocabulary Exam Practice |
| 28 | B1 Course – Video 15: Perfekt Recap, Dative Prepositions, Adjective Endings Without an Article, Compound Nouns | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Fifteenth class mixed Perfekt-tense reading practice (a biographical letter and two true/false comprehension texts) with dative prepositions, the verändern/wechseln distinction, an exam-essay modal-verb tip, and two grammar tables: adjective endings without an article, and the gender rule for German compound nouns (Komposita). | German B1 telc Course Notes Adjective Endings Komposita Prepositions |
| 29 | B1 Course – Video 16: Genitive Prepositions (während/innerhalb/außerhalb) and Travel Vocabulary | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Sixteenth class covered border/travel vocabulary (Grenze, Botschaft, Konsulat, Visum), a "what makes us happy" reading text with vocabulary and indirect-speech style reporting, the fixed expression auf Dauer, and the three genitive time/place prepositions während, innerhalb, and außerhalb — including how to tell während apart from the connector use of the same word. | German B1 telc Course Notes Genitive Prepositions Travel Vocabulary Reading Comprehension |
| 30 | B1 Course – Video 17: Konjunktiv II (Subjunctive) – Formation, Irreal Situations, würde | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Seventeenth class introduced Konjunktiv II from scratch: its five uses (polite requests, wishes, irreal/unreal situations, suggestions/advice, assumptions), how to form it from the Präteritum stem plus Umlaut, when to use haben/sein directly versus würde + infinitive, and a long round of student-built wenn...würde practice sentences plus chapter-2 vocabulary. | German B1 telc Course Notes Konjunktiv II würde Irreal Situations |
| 31 | B1 Course – Video 18: Job/Application Vocabulary, Konjunktiv II Review, weh tun (Dative) | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Eighteenth class opened with Chapter 9 job-and-application vocabulary, then drilled Konjunktiv II (würde/hätte/wäre) hypothetical sentences with modal verbs and reflexive verbs, covered the dative quirky-subject verb weh tun, fixed prepositions for water bodies and markets, and closed with a picture-description speaking exercise. | German B1 telc Course Notes Konjunktiv II Dative Verbs Vocabulary |
| 32 | B1 Course – Video 19: Wechsel Verbs (PDTA), SDMA Recap, and Verbs with Fixed Prepositions | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Nineteenth class covered wechsel verbs that take both a person and a thing (PDTA rule: Dativ for the person, Akkusativ for the thing), revised the SDMA rule for wechsel prepositions like auf/hinter, and introduced verbs with fixed prepositions (feste Präpositionen) — their own case rules, the wo(r)-/da(r)- question and reference words, and the start of the 70-verb B1 list. | German B1 telc Course Notes Verbs with Fixed Prepositions Wechsel Verbs Cases |
| 33 | B1 Course – Video 20: Verbs with Fixed Prepositions Drill, um...zu vs. damit | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Twentieth class spent its first half drilling the 70-verb list of verbs with fixed prepositions (case + English meaning, roll-call style), then taught the difference between um...zu and damit clauses of purpose, including the same-subject restriction and the special modal-verb (können) exception. | German B1 telc Course Notes Verbs with Fixed Prepositions um...zu damit |
| 34 | B1 Course – Video 21: um...zu vs. damit, Genitive Review, Connectors, and Verbs with Fixed Prepositions | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Twenty-first class reviewed comparative/superlative adjective endings, drilled the same-subject rule that decides between um...zu and damit, revisited genitive case for proper vs. common nouns, recapped connector verb-position rules (weil/da/obwohl/trotzdem/deshalb/aber/und), and continued verbs with fixed prepositions plus da(r)-/wo(r)- constructions through a job-application reading text. | German B1 telc Course Notes Infinitiv mit zu Genitive Case Connectors Verbs with Fixed Prepositions |
| 35 | B1 Course – Video 22: Präteritum vs. Partizip II, Komposita, and Fixed-Preposition Verbs in an Environment Reading Text | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Twenty-second class corrected Präteritum/Partizip II homework sentences, distinguished verbs vs. adjectives with fixed prepositions, practiced reflexive/apology vocabulary, drilled Komposita formation from verbs/adjectives/nouns, ran a spontaneous e-books-vs-classic-books debate with live corrections, and worked through an environment/eco-balance reading text packed with fixed-preposition verbs. | German B1 telc Course Notes Präteritum Komposita Verbs with Fixed Prepositions Speaking Practice |
| 36 | B1 Course – Video 23: Environment/Startup Vocabulary, Opinion Phrases, and Superlative Adjective Endings | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Twenty-third class corrected homework vocabulary (environment, sustainability, and recycling-themed words), worked through three "green startup" reading texts with um...zu/damit purpose clauses and opinion-giving phrases, then introduced the B1-level superlative form with full adjective-ending declension (building on the A2 comparative/superlative basics). | German B1 telc Course Notes Superlative Adjective Endings Environment Vocabulary Opinion Phrases |
| 37 | B1 Course – Video 24: Environment Vocabulary, Weather Terms, and N-Deklination (Weak Masculine Nouns) | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Twenty-fourth class worked through sustainability/environment reading vocabulary (aus for material/origin, stammen aus), weather expressions, a Hörverstehen exercise on saving electricity and eco-campaigns, noun-verb derivation pairs, and closed with a full introduction to N-Deklination (weak masculine nouns) including the teacher's own heuristic for spotting them. | German B1 telc Course Notes N-Deklination Weak Nouns Weather Vocabulary Environment Vocabulary |
| 38 | B1 Course – Video 25: N-Deklination Exceptions and Introduction to Relativsätze | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Twenty-fifth class wrapped up N-Deklination with six genitive-taking exception nouns and the special neuter word Herz, then introduced Relativsätze (relative clauses): the relative pronoun table, verb-at-the-end word order, and how to identify nominative vs. accusative/dative using wer/was and the PDTA Wechselverb rule. | German B1 telc Course Notes N-Deklination Relativsätze Relative Pronouns |
| 39 | B1 Course – Video 26: Relativsätze (Relative Clauses) with Cases and Fixed-Preposition Verbs | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Twenty-sixth class briefly reviewed clock-time expressions (halb, vor/nach) and a Wechselverb reading text, then spent most of the lesson on relative clauses — a step-by-step method for finding the relative pronoun's gender and case, and how to build relative clauses around verbs with fixed prepositions. | German B1 telc Course Notes Relativsätze Relative Pronouns Uhrzeit Verbs with Fixed Prepositions |
| 40 | B1 Course – Video 27: Relative Clauses with Prepositions, Fixed-Preposition Verbs, and a Future-Cities Reading Text | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Twenty-seventh class worked through a "city of the future" reading text (mobility, micro-living, green roofs) packed with fixed-preposition verbs, then drilled relative clauses with prepositions (choosing the antecedent by gender/case and reflexive-pronoun word order) and a homework recap of verbs with fixed prepositions. | German B1 telc Course Notes Relative Clauses Verbs with Fixed Prepositions Reading Comprehension |
| 41 | B1 Course – Video 28: No Substantive Teaching Content (Silent/Unusable Recording) | Sun Jun 28 2026 | This recording's transcript is almost entirely Whisper silence-filler ("Thank you.") for its full ~1 hour 42 minute length, with no German grammar or vocabulary teaching captured. | German B1 telc Course Notes No Content |
| 42 | B1 Course – Video 29: Future Vocabulary, Picture Description, and Plusquamperfekt | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Twenty-ninth class reviewed Futur I homework and future-related vocabulary, ran a long Bildbeschreibung (picture description) speaking drill with live corrections, then introduced Plusquamperfekt (past perfect) — when to use it relative to Perfekt/Präteritum and how to build it with hatte/war + Partizip II. | German B1 telc Course Notes Plusquamperfekt Futur I Bildbeschreibung |
| 43 | B1 Course – Video 30: Plusquamperfekt Review, Temporal Prepositions, and nachdem | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Thirtieth class corrected a Plusquamperfekt narrative exercise (genitive apostrophe, word order, fixed-preposition vocabulary), reviewed the temporal prepositions am/gegen/wegen/seit, and then spent the bulk of the lesson on the time-connector nachdem and its tense-sequencing rules. | German B1 telc Course Notes Plusquamperfekt nachdem Temporal Prepositions |
| 44 | B1 Course – Video 31: Temporal Connectors Review, Comparatives, and a Friendship Reading Text | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Thirty-first class opened with detailed homework correction on the temporal connectors nachdem/bevor/seit/während/bis (with the logic for choosing between them), touched on the viel-mehr-am meisten comparative, then spent most of the lesson reading and translating a course-book text about friendship before drilling reflexive conflict vocabulary and connectors again through picture-description speaking practice. | German B1 telc Course Notes Temporal Connectors Comparatives Reflexive Verbs |
| 45 | B1 Course – Video 32: nachdem Drill, Fable Vocabulary, and derselbe/dasselbe | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Thirty-second class drilled nachdem tense-sequencing with a worked fill-in exercise, covered a synonym-matching vocabulary set and a tabloid/celebrity-gossip reading text, worked through a Präteritum fairy-tale text about a fearful rabbit, then introduced derselbe/dasselbe (the exact-same construction), a short note on relative pronouns with neuter antecedents, and closed with diplomatic-language phrases and modal particles (aber, denn, ja, mal, wohl). | German B1 telc Course Notes nachdem derselbe/dasselbe Modal Particles |
| 46 | B1 Course – Video 33: Reflexive Verbs (Dative Table) and brauchen + zu | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Thirty-third class drilled a long health/fitness vocabulary list, then gave a detailed review and extension of reflexive verbs — when to use the A2 (accusative) vs. the new B1 (dative) reflexive pronoun table, the rule for ignoring prepositional objects, and the special case of body parts — before closing with brauchen + zu as a negated alternative to müssen. | German B1 telc Course Notes Reflexive Verbs brauchen + zu Vocabulary |
| 47 | B1 Course – Video 34: Doppelkonnektoren and Formal/Informal Schreiben Conventions | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Thirty-fourth class covers the six two-part (double) connectors used to make B1-level writing sound advanced — nicht nur...sondern auch, sowohl...als auch, weder...noch, einerseits... andererseits, zwar...aber, entweder...oder — then moves into formal vs. informal email/letter conventions: salutations, closings, du/Sie-consistent imperatives, and exam scoring tips. | German B1 telc Course Notes Doppelkonnektoren Schreiben Formal Letters |
| 48 | B1 Course – Video 35: Clinic Vocabulary, Music & Emotions Text, and Fixed-Preposition Verbs | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Thirty-fifth class worked through two long reading texts (clinic/hospital-stay information and a "music and emotions" article) for vocabulary and reading comprehension, then drilled a long list of fixed-preposition verbs and da(r)-compounds, finishing with a detailed review of a graded test. | German B1 telc Course Notes Fixed-Preposition Verbs Reading Comprehension Vocabulary |
| 49 | B1 Course – Video 36: Health Vocabulary, gegen vs. für, and Negation with nicht/kein | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Thirty-sixth class reviews health/pharmacy vocabulary and the gegen-vs.-für rule for talking about medicine, then moves into a detailed grammar block on negating sentences with nicht and kein — kein's 16 forms, where nicht changes meaning depending on its position, and the fixed positions (modal verb, separable prefix, prepositional object) that nicht cannot occupy. | German B1 telc Course Notes Negation nicht vs kein Health Vocabulary |
| 50 | B1 Course – Video 37: Negation Rules, Dative Replacement & Bildbeschreibung Vocabulary | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Thirty-seventh class works through nicht/kein negation exercises, the rule for replacing a negated dative object with another dative noun, a quick note on modal verbs in Perfekt vs. Präteritum, indefinite-article (unbestimmter Artikel) case endings, and a long picture-description (Bildbeschreibung) and listening segment full of art/city vocabulary and intensity adverbs (relativ, total, wirklich, etc.) used to grade opinions. | German B1 telc Course Notes Negation Unbestimmter Artikel Bildbeschreibung |
| 51 | B1 Course – Video 38: Kunst-Themed Reading Texts, Dative Verbs & Adjective Endings | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Thirty-eighth class works through several "Kunst" (art)-themed reading texts — a blog comment, course advertisements, and a news story about a cleaning lady destroying an artwork — while drilling dative verbs, fixed-preposition verbs, synonym/antonym pairs, and adjective-ending rules on mixed/unmarked articles. | German B1 telc Course Notes Adjective Endings Dative Verbs Reading Comprehension |
| 52 | B1 Course – Video 39: Introduction to Aktiv/Passiv (Active–Passive Voice) | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Thirty-ninth class works through a Sprachbausteine-style reading exercise (keyword-marking strategy), a batch of Kapitel-10 vocabulary on theatre/culture and society/values, and then introduces the core rules for converting active sentences into the passive voice with werden + Partizip II. | German B1 telc Course Notes Aktiv-Passiv Passive Voice Wortschatz |
| 53 | B1 Course – Video 40: Passiv – Präteritum, Perfekt, Modalverben & werden/wurden/würden | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Fortieth class continues the Passiv (passive voice) topic from video 39 — reviewing homework on present-tense passive, then extending the rules to Präteritum passive, Perfekt passive (with worden vs. geworden), modal-verb passive, and disambiguating the four look-alike forms werden/wurde/würde/geworden, plus a Tafel/Patenschaft reading and related vocabulary. | German B1 telc Course Notes Aktiv-Passiv Passive Voice Wortschatz |
| 54 | B1 Course – Video 41: Passive Voice Practice + Mini-München Reading Text | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Forty-first class drills Partizip II / Präteritum passive sentences (turning on/off, watering plants, picking up books), works through modal-verb passive ("müssen + werden") sentences with city-administration vocabulary, then reads and translates a long passive-heavy text about the "Mini-München" children's city-simulation project. | German B1 telc Course Notes Aktiv-Passiv Passive Voice Modalverben Leseverstehen |
| 55 | B1 Course – Video 43: Artikel als Pronomen, Adjektive als Nomen & Test Review | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Forty-third class covers two short grammar topics — using articles as pronouns (ein(e)s/keins) and adjectives used as nouns (capitalized, person/abstract reference only) — works through Kapitel 11 reading texts (traffic, night shift, bakery, garbage truck/homeless person), then reviews a graded test covering relative pronouns, time connectors, and reflexive dative. | German B1 telc Course Notes Artikel als Pronomen Adjektive als Nomen Test Review |
| 56 | B1 Course – Video 44: Relativsätze mit was, wo, woher, wohin | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Forty-fourth class reviews the relative-pronoun table and relative clauses with prepositions, then introduces two new B1/B2 relative-clause patterns: relative clauses with "was" (used with indefinite pronouns or to refer back to a whole sentence) and relative clauses with "wo", "woher", and "wohin" (used for places, distinguishing location vs. direction vs. origin). | German B1 telc Course Notes Relativsätze was-Relativsatz wo-woher-wohin |
| 57 | B1 Course – Video 45: Artikel als Pronomen Drill & Adjective-Ending Tables Recap | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Forty-fifth class continues drilling "ein-/kein-" used as a stand-alone pronoun (city/country life workbook exercise) across nominative, accusative, and dative, then recaps the three adjective-ending tables (with article, with unbestimmter article, without article) before most of the recording becomes silence/filler. | German B1 telc Course Notes Artikel als Pronomen Adjektivendungen kein-/ein- |
| 58 | B1 Course – Video 46: Irgend-Wörter, Partizip II als Adjektiv & je...desto | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Forty-sixth class covers the irgend- family (irgendein, irgendwelche) for unspecified "some/any," reviews Partizip II used as an attributive adjective in banking/customer-service vocabulary, the schon vs. noch distinction, separable verbs with an-/aus-/zu-, and finishes with the je...desto (the more... the more) comparative construction for Schreiben conclusions. | German B1 telc Course Notes Irgend-Wörter Partizip II als Adjektiv je...desto |
| 59 | B1 Course – Video 47: Geld-Redemittel, Banking Vocabulary & Partizip I/II as Adjectives | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Forty-seventh class reviews money-related idiomatic expressions and banking/finance vocabulary from homework, briefly revisits comparative adjective spelling rules, then works through a difficult Kapitel 12 bakery text to drill Partizip I (-ing) vs. Partizip II (-ed) used as adjectives with correct adjective endings. | German B1 telc Course Notes Redemittel Banking Vocabulary Partizip als Adjektiv |
| 60 | B1 Course – Video 48: Largely Silent Recording (Test Review, nicht-Position Only) | Sun Jun 28 2026 | This recording is almost entirely Whisper silence-filler for its ~2-hour length; the only extractable content is a brief test-review exchange on where to place "nicht" in a negated sentence, during a written test covering passive voice, verb position, and adjective endings. | German B1 telc Course Notes Nicht Position No Content |
| 61 | B1 Course – Video 49: B2 Wortschatz-Upgrades, Konnektoren & Final Logistics | Sun Jun 28 2026 | Final class of the course: a curated list of B2-level verbs/phrases to upgrade basic B1 sentences (Angst haben vor, Beitrag leisten, eine Entscheidung treffen, etc.), a short vocabulary drill on synonyms for "stark machen/wichtig sein"-type words, a clarification on reflexive vs. dative "mir/mich" with wechsel verbs like kaufen, a recap of sentence-opener and connector phrases for Schreiben (aber-alternatives, fillers, concluding lines), and closing course logistics about the final sample-paper session. | German B1 telc Course Notes B2 Wortschatz Konnektoren Schreiben Tips |
