German B1 learning path – Intermediate
At B1 you deal with most situations likely to arise on a trip and can describe experiences, dreams and plans. You can give reasons and opinions in simple connected text.
What you can do at B1
- Deal with most travel situations and unplanned events
- Describe experiences, dreams, hopes and plans, and give reasons
- Follow the main points of clear speech and read texts on familiar topics
The B1 path brings together 160 vocabulary words, 42 grammar topics, 15 phrases, 4 writing tasks and 20 test questions. Work through the grammar topics in order, and use the vocabulary sets for daily practice.
Grammar topics at B1
- Genitive case
- Genitive prepositions
- Passive voice (present)
- Passive voice (past)
- Passive with modal verbs
- Agent in the passive
- Konjunktiv II – wishes
- Konjunktiv II – unreal conditions
- Polite requests
- Relative clauses
- Relative pronouns (dative, genitive)
- Relative clauses with prepositions
- Past perfect (Plusquamperfekt)
- Nachdem
- Bevor / ehe
- Während
- Obwohl
- Damit vs. um … zu
- Indirect questions
- Konjunktion sodass
- Konjunktion falls
- Konjunktion indem
- Konjunktion sobald
- Konjunktion bis
- Verb position with connectors (deshalb, trotzdem)
- Double connectors
- Prepositional objects
- Adjective endings after possessives
- Participles as adjectives
- Adjectival nouns
- Lassen
- Verbs with infinitive without zu
- Double infinitive
- Word order: Mittelfeld
- Wissen vs. kennen
- Comparisons with so … wie
- Je … desto
- Interrogative welch-
- Zeit expressions with accusative
- Präteritum of regular verbs
- Präteritum of strong verbs
- Präpositionen with temporal use