In
the following activities you'll be looking into the publisher's list of German
publisher "DTV" (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag).
All texts and images are taken from either the editor's catalogue or the editor's
website http://www.dtv.de.
You will practice mainly three things:
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1.
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Guess
the content of the books by using reading strategies.
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2.
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Identify
noun phrases.
Since you're just beginning to work with noun phrases, you'll work on the level of the simple noun phrase such as |
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article
+ noun
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das
Internetradio
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article
+ adjective + noun
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das
deutschsprachige Internetradio
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adverb
+ adjective + noun
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neu
formatierte Disketten
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etc.
Some of these simple noun phrases form complex ones. You may disregard that fact for now. |
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3.
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Finally,
you'll pratice identifying adjectives by their location between
the article and the noun.
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1)
What
could "Taschenbuch" mean? One hint: "die Tasche" means "pocket."
2) Let's have a look at one of the books of "Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag."
Please type the answers to the following questions in English in the slots below.
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Here's another book from dtv publishers:
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Hobsbawm,
Eric: Ein weites Panorama des 20. Jahrhunderts, ein beeindruckender argumentierender Wurf. |
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1)
There are three compound nouns in the title.
In the first two compound nouns, you should identify at least one element; in
the third, both of them.
Please
type them in the slots below in the order they appear. Also, identify
their construction.
Correct answers will turn green and automatically
take you to the next slot.
Try to identify the meanings of these elements before you click on the "SHOW ANSWERS" button, which gives you a translation.
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