• Aufgabe 1

    5 Minuten 10 Punkte
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    Vocabulary

    Match the German and English phrases for e-mails.

    English German
    Enjoy your…  Ich hoffe, ich höre bald von dir. 
    Thank you for your… Alles Gute, … 
    Dear…  Alles Liebe, … 
    I hope to hear from you soon. Viele Grüße, … 
    I’m glad to hear from you.  Danke für deine(n) … 
    Love,… Ich bin froh, von dir zu hören. 
    All the best,… Tschüss, … 
    Yours,…  Liebe(r) … 
    Bye,… Genieß deine(n) … 
    Best wishes,... Dein(e) ...

  • Aufgabe 2

    20 Minuten 16 Punkte
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    Writing

    It's Sarah’s first day at the new school and she wants to write an e-mail to her German friend Tina. Here are her notes. Please write the e-mail trying to use these notes.

    • thank her for e-mail
    • good that she enjoyed holidays
    • we’re back at school, too
    • ask Tina if I told her that I’m at new school, first day yesterday, really nervous
    • mum and dad took me by car, first had to go to head teacher, nice, name: Mrs Thompson, showed me how to get to new class
    • all kids in class new, we’re in secondary school now, like German “Gymnasium” (so far I attended primary school, stayed there for 6 years)
    • great: to be old enough, new school, lots of cute older boys
    • new classmates: nice
    • teachers: seem OK, too, only chemistry teacher (Mr Whitehead) strange, old, smells. Yuck!
    • later: went to cafeteria (have lunch), some older girls pushed us around, said we were sitting at their table. Samantha, really ugly & terrible, took bottle of ketchup & squeezed it all over my chips, couldn’t eat them anymore, but was lucky, chemistry teacher saw it, shouted at her
    • she had to buy new chips for me & he sent her to detention (= you have to stay longer at school after lessons/extra work/think about what you have done wrong). Ha-ha!
    • Mr Whitehead not so bad after all?
    • Ask Tina to tell about her first day at school, hope she had better start
    • write soon

  • Aufgabe 3

    5 Minuten 10 Punkte
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    Grammar

    Put in the correct possessive pronoun. Sarah spent her last school holidays in Scotland with her family and her uncle Craig. 
    In one of her e-mails she tells Tina about it.

    1. You told me about your holidays, so let me now tell you about ________.
    2. We have a lot of relatives all over the UK and we like to visit them. I don’t know where your family’s relatives live, ________ live in Scotland.
    3. Uncle Craig owns a house in Scotland – it’s ________.
    4. Mum lived in another house when she was young. Since her parents died, it has been ________. But it’s too small for all of us.
    5. So we went to stay with Uncle Craig and his dog Pete. We also took our dog Lucy, so that his dog could play with ________.
    6. Is ________ a friendly dog, too? ________ is a really good girl.
    7. My grandparents also have two dogs but ________ are really dangerous. They bite other dogs if you aren’t careful.
    8. One day we wanted to go to the next town with Uncle Craig but his car was broken so we had to take ________. It was a problem because our car isn’t as big as ________. 

  • Aufgabe 4

    15 Minuten 7 Punkte
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    Translation

    Translate these sentences from Tina’s e-mail into English. Use as many possessive determiners and pronouns as possible.

    Poor Sarah. She receives an answer from Tina, but Tina didn’t remember to write her e-mail in English. Sarah doesn’t speak German, so she needs someone to translate the e-mail for her.

    1. Vielen Dank für deine E-Mail, hier kommt meine.
    2. Als ich deine gelesen habe, musste ich lachen.
    3. Deine Familie ist genau wie unsere. 
    4. In unserer gibt es auch viele Hunde.
    5. Ich mag fast alle, außer (=except) den Hund von meiner Tante. Der ist wirklich schrecklich. Schlimmer als unserer.
    6. Nicht viele Hunde mögen es, mit Katzen zu spielen. Mag deiner Katzen?
    7. Unsere Nachbarn haben auch Wellensittiche (= budgies). Ihre sind blau und weiß.