Lesson 8: A Weekend in the City – Shopping, Directions & First Steps with the Perfekt
In this lesson, we introduce the Perfekt (past tense) with haben/sein and practise shopping in an urban setting, asking for and giving directions, and expressing short opinions.
About this lesson
Lesson 8 builds on your everyday communication skills: you'll talk about how your weekend went, ask for or give a receipt, enquire about a discount, and ask for directions around the city. We'll review essential shopping and city-navigation vocabulary and introduce the Perfekt with a range of common verbs — including separable verbs and verbs of motion.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Use the Perfekt to give a brief account of past events (haben/sein).
- Hold a basic conversation in a shop: price, payment, exchanges, and receipts.
- Ask for and give simple directions around the city (geradeaus, links, rechts).
- Express short opinions and preferences (gefällt mir/nicht).