When you have finished this lesson you can:

• Name different vacations
• Name accommodations
• Name holiday activities
• Talk about past and future vacations

Most Germans and Austrians with permanent employment have about 5 or 6 weeks of vacation each year with pay. As a rule, you must earn the right to vacation the year before. Austrians prefer to make their vacation within the country, but if they plan to travel, they like to go somewhere, where you have a beach. Italy, Croatia or countries like Thailand are on the top list. Germans in contrast mostly like to spend their time in Austria, Italy, Spain.

In Germany, there are different terms for the holidays of working or adult people and for the holidays of pupils or people in training.

The term for being in a different place for relaxation or adventure or other holiday activities is also "Urlaub". You say:

Compound nouns may be formed as terms for various vacations, for example with an indication of time.

Christian holidays like Christmas, Easter, Pentecost or Ascension of Christ are used without articles.

Compound nouns may be formed as terms for various vacations, for example also with an indication of activity or location.

Arrange correctly: Click at the word on the left and drag them to the corresponding picture on the right side.

! Note:

1) "unterwegs sein" has a irreg. conjugation
sein: ich bin unterwegs, du bist unterwegs …

2) If you want to say that something is more than enough or less than good, you use the word "zu" in front of the adjective (similar to the English "too").

! Note: "schlafen" is a regular verb, accept:

        du schläfst

        er/sie/es schläft

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Arrange correctly: Click at the speaker-button on the left and drag them to the corresponding word on the right side.

“sich entspannen” is a reflexive verb what means that an additional reflexive pronoun is needed. It changes depending of person and number.

In perfect tense

Other reflexive verbs are for instance …

…. “sich freuen” (to be glad),

…. “sich interessieren” (to be interested) or

…. “sich ausruhen” (to rest).

Arrange correctly: Click at the pronoun on the left and drag them to the corresponding form of the verbs on the right side.

If you want to talk about the future, you usually use - we've already dealt with it - the present tense (with a term of time).The future 1 is only used on some occasions, for example to talking about plans:

Wir werden im Sommer nach Spanien fahren.     [In summer, we will go to Spain.]

Ich werde in Wien arbeiten.                                      [I will work in Vienna.]

The future 1 is build with

Wenn Sie über Urlaub sprechen, können Sie über Abenteuer und Erfahrungen in der Vergangenheit oder über Pläne in der Zukunft sprechen.

Arrange correctly: Click at the pronoun on the left and drag them to the corresponding form of the verbs on the right side.

How explained in the second chapter, there are many possibilities to “build” a complex sentence in German. Here we want to deal with the combination of two main clauses. For this, you can use so called coordinating conjugations like ...

…  aber     [but - in the sense of an objection or relativization]

…  sondern     [but - in the sense of an alternative]

…  denn    [because]

…  und    [and]

…  oder    [or]

The conjunction is always in position 0. It doesn‘t belong to either sentence. The structures of the clauses stay the same: subject, conjugated verb, object.

! Note: If there is the same verb or/and subject in both main clauses then you can leave it out:

! Remember: If there is the same verb or/and subject in both main clauses then you can leave it out:

! Remember: If there is the same verb or/and subject in both main clauses then you can leave it out:

! Note: "denn" is the only exception where you must say subject and verb in both clauses - also if they are the same:

Arrange correctly: Click at conjunction on the left and drag them to phrase on the right side for a correct sentence.