Aufgabe A
Write short dialogues for the following situations (examples: exercise 5).
1. Your colleague is hungry but is too busy to go out for lunch.
2. Your boss wants to talk to you in his / her office.
3. A customer is coming to visit your company but doesn't know how to get
there.
4. A very good friend is going on holiday and has to get to the airport.
5. You are at the cinema with a very good friend and have forgotten to bring
any money.
6. You need someone to chair the next department meeting. You ask one of
your colleagues.
Aufgabe B
Put the following sentences into the passive.
1. They are offering guided tours around the city at reduced prices today.
2. You must not leave baggage unattended.
3. Someone has stolen Katrin’s handbag.
4. They built this church in 1648.
5. You can buy tickets for the trip when you get on the bus.
6. We should do more to save our old buildings.
7. Angela will send the programmes when the printers have printed them.
8. They were preparing dinner when I arrived.
9. Visitors should not park their cars in the spaces for disabled people.
10. Katrin said that Michael had found her handbag behind a chair in the
living-room.
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Aufgabe C
When people are describing their home country or town, they often use words in
their own language when they talk about the most famous sights. Foreigners can
not always understand this, so it’s important to find ways to describe them in
English. Either choose six of the following sights in Germany or six from your
own area and describe them so that a foreigner would know what you are talking
about. Write about four sentences per sight.
Kölner Dom Englischer Garten Reeperbahn Dresdner Zwinger
Reichstag Kurfürstendamm Elbsandsteingebirge Loreley
Brandenburger Tor Deutsches Museum Rhein Bodensee
Semperoper Meißener Porzellanmanufaktur Bayerischer Wald
Aufgabe D
Write about 200 words telling a visitor from another country what he / she should
or should not do in your country.