Questions: word order: inversion; intonation; question words: warum, was, wann, wie, wo, wieviel, wie lange, um wieviel Uhr, wohin; Negative: kein, nicht; Verbs: infinitive; infinitive with zu; polite requests; reflexives; lassen for having something done; verb + preposition; modal verbs; separable and inseparable verbs; imperative; conditions: wurde; ware + infinitive; Tenses: present; future: werden; using the present tense; past simple: introduction with haben, sein and modal verbs; Adverbs: including expressions of time; Prepositions: + accusative and dative: mit, fur, auf, nach, seit, zu, unter; Conjunctions: co-ordinating and subordinating: wenn, aber, denn, weil, ob; Personal pronouns: nominative; introduction to accusative and dative: mich; mir; Sie; Ihnen; Definite article: der, die, das; Nouns: gender; Prefixes: hin, ein, ab, fort, durch,. weg, aus, wider, uber, her, dorthin, auf, an; Vocabulary: similarities to English; cognates; Pronunciation.