Lesson 10: Plans & Invitations – Scheduling Meetings and Times
In this lesson, you will learn how to invite people, arrange meetings, and offer, accept, or decline times in the German present tense.
About this lesson
In Lesson 10, we wrap up the A1 level with a highly practical topic: how to invite people and schedule meetings. You will practise straightforward questions about days and times, polite responses, and simple sentences using the modal verbs können and müssen. We will work with the expressions um (for clock times) and am (for days of the week).
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Ask questions about time and day (Wann? Um wie viel Uhr? Am Samstag?)
- Extend an invitation and suggest a time in a polite and natural way
- Accept (zusagen) and decline (absagen) a meeting with a brief explanation
- Use können and müssen in simple present-tense sentences
- Use the expressions um + Uhr and am + Tag to schedule a specific time and day
Lesson vocabulary
- — покана Ich schreibe eine Einladung zum Kaffee.
- — имам време Hast du heute Zeit?
- — срещам се Treffen wir uns am Freitag?
- — подхожда, удобно е Passt dir Montag um 10?
- — мога Ich kann am Abend telefonieren.
- — трябва Ich muss arbeiten.
- — може би Vielleicht morgen?
- — отказвам (среща/покана) Ich sage den Termin ab.
- — потвърждавам (среща/покана) Ich sage zu.
- — в ... часа Um 15 Uhr passt gut.
- — през уикенда Am Wochenende bin ich frei.