A1.1 · 10 of 30
Lesson · 3 rules · about 3 min
A short self-introduction of the kind you find on a language-course website or a pen-pal page: name, age, country, city, what she does, family, hobbies. Read it once for the gist without stopping at unknown words, then take the questions one at a time and go back to the text for each. Every question has a key word — alt, woher, arbeitet, trinkt — and the sentence containing the answer contains that key word or its twin (wie alt ↔ Jahre alt; was macht ↔ Studentin). That scanning move — question first, then hunt the key word — is the single most useful reading habit you can build, because in real life you rarely have time to translate.
Hallo! Ich heiße Lena Müller. Ich bin zwanzig Jahre alt und komme aus Österreich. Jetzt wohne ich in Hamburg. Ich bin Studentin und studiere an der Universität. Am Wochenende arbeite ich in einem Café. Ich habe einen Bruder und eine Schwester. Mein Bruder heißt Tim. Am Sonntag spiele ich gern Tennis und lese viele Bücher. Am Morgen trinke ich Tee, aber am Nachmittag trinke ich gern Kaffee. Ich spreche Deutsch und Englisch.
Hi! My name is Lena Müller. I am twenty years old and come from Austria. Now I live in Hamburg. I am a student and study at the university. At the weekend I work in a café. I have a brother and a sister. My brother is called Tim. On Sunday I like to play tennis and read a lot of books. In the morning I drink tea, but in the afternoon I like to drink coffee. I speak German and English.
Exercise
Lesen: Das bin ich · A1.1
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