Chapter 16 of 17 · Explore the German path
Reading · Chapter 16 of 17
Try a story before you reveal the help
Read a second story with the pronunciation and the English hidden until you reveal them. If you can recover who did what, you are ready for your first book.
≈ 3 min of reading · Practise at your own pace
What’s in this chapter
- This time the pronunciation and the English begin hidden.
- The story is told in the one-word past that books are printed in.
- Aim for the scene: doing word in slot two, then the last word of the line.
- If you can recover who did what, you are ready for the first book.
One new word; everything else you have met
One word in this story is new. Learn it here, and everything else is something you have already read.
| hieß |
Er hieß Tika.
Tika and the tree
Read each line aloud, say what you think happened, then reveal.
- Es war einmal ein kleiner Vogel. Er hieß Tika.
The fairy-tale opening, then the new word.
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Es war einmal ein kleiner Vogel. Er hieß Tika.ess var INE-mahl ine KLINE-uh FOH-gul. air heess TEE-ka “Once upon a time there was a small bird. His name was Tika.” - Eines Tages kam der Wind, und sein Baum fiel.
Something other than the doer went first.
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Eines Tages kam der Wind, und sein Baum fiel.INE-es TAH-gess kahm dair vint, oont zine bowm feel “One day the wind came, and his tree fell.” - Ein alter Fuchs sah den kleinen Vogel an. „Warum bist du traurig?“, fragte er.
Read the last word of the first sentence before deciding what its doing word meant.
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Ein alter Fuchs sah den kleinen Vogel an. „Warum bist du traurig?“, fragte er.ine AL-tuh fooks zah dayn KLINE-en FOH-gul an. va-ROOM bist doo TROW-rich, FRAHK-tuh air “An old fox looked at the small bird. "Why are you sad?" he asked.” Not “saw” — the an an makes it “looked at”. - „Komm mit mir“, sagte der Fuchs. Jetzt war Tika wieder glücklich.
An order: the doing word goes first and drops its ending.
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„Komm mit mir“, sagte der Fuchs. Jetzt war Tika wieder glücklich.kom mit meer, ZAHK-tuh dair fooks. yetst var TEE-ka VEE-duh GLEWK-lich “"Come with me," said the fox. Now Tika was happy again.”