| Introduction | p. viii |
| How to use this book | p. ix |
| Functional grammar | |
| Asking for and giving personal information | p. 1 |
| Say who you are | |
| State your nationality | |
| Say where you are from | |
| Say what your occupation is | |
| Give similar information about other people | |
| Ask for personal information about other people | |
| Introducing and identifying people, places and things | p. 12 |
| Introduce yourself and other people | |
| Greet people when being introduced | |
| Say goodbye | |
| Identify people, places and things | |
| Ask questions in order to identify people, places and things | |
| Talk on the telephone | |
| Write letters | |
| Pass on greetings | |
| Expressing existence and availability | p. 21 |
| Ask if something exists or is available | |
| State that something exists or is available | |
| Ask and answer questions regarding quantity | |
| Expressing location | p. 33 |
| Enquire about and give information about location | |
| Enquire about and give information about distance | |
| Talking about the present | p. 43 |
| Talk about something which is happening now | |
| Talk about something which is true as of now, but not necessarily at this specific time | |
| Describe a regular or habitual activity | |
| Express universal truths and well-known facts | |
| Present information about the past in a dramatic present form | |
| Expressing likes and dislikes | p. 55 |
| Express likes and dislikes | |
| Ask questions about likes and dislikes | |
| Expressing wants and preferences | p. 64 |
| Express wants and preferences | |
| Ask questions about wants and preferences | |
| Expressing permission and ability | p. 72 |
| Make statements about permission and ability | |
| Ask questions about permission and ability | |
| Expressing obligation and necessity | p. 79 |
| Make statements about obligation and need | |
| Ask questions about obligation and need | |
| Asking for and giving opinions | p. 86 |
| Ask for opinions | |
| Give opinions | |
| Talking about habitual actions | p. 94 |
| Ask for and give information about personal habits and routine actions | |
| Ask and state the exact time at which certain actions are performed | |
| Say how often you or others do certain things | |
| Ask for and give information about modes of transport used | |
| Relate a sequence of habitual actions | |
| Expressing possession | p. 105 |
| Express possession | |
| Ask questions regarding possession | |
| Giving directions and instructions | p. 113 |
| Ask and give directions | |
| Ask for and give instructions | |
| Making requests and offers | p. 122 |
| Make requests | |
| Reply to a request | |
| Make offers | |
| Reply to offers | |
| Issue and accept invitations | |
| Describing people, places and things | p. 130 |
| Ask questions leading to the description of people, places and things | |
| Describe people, places and things | |
| Describe the weather | |
| Referring to future plans and events | p. 140 |
| Ask and give information about future plans | |
| Ask and answer questions about future events | |
| Describing the past | p. 147 |
| Describe states or actions which were habitual in the past | |
| Describe events or activities which indisputably belong to the past from the narrator's points of view | |
| Turn direct into reported speech | |
| Describe states or actions which occurred before some past event | |
| Describe a past event or activity in writing | |
| Talking about the recent past | p. 157 |
| Talk about events in the past which are of relevance or interest to the present | |
| Talk about events which have happened in the recent past | |
| Describing processes and procedures | p. 167 |
| Describe processes and procedures | |
| Ask questions regarding processes and procedures | |
| Reporting what was said and asked | p. 175 |
| Report who said and asked what | |
| Expressing conditions | p. 183 |
| Express open conditions | |
| Express remote conditions | |
| Express unfulfilled conditions | |
| Reference grammar | |
| Pronunciation | p. 190 |
| The german alphabet | |
| Pronunciation and spelling | |
| Nouns | p. 194 |
| Gender | |
| Compound nouns | |
| Noun plurals | |
| Weak nouns | |
| Declension of determiners | p. 198 |
| Changes in the definite article | |
| Changes in the indefinite article | |
| Declension of personal pronouns | p. 199 |
| Adjectives | p. 200 |
| Adjectival endings | |
| Adjectival nouns | |
| The comparative and superlative forms of adjectives | |
| The use of the cases | p. 204 |
| The nominative case | |
| The accusative case | |
| The dative case | |
| The genitive case | |
| Adverbs | p. 207 |
| The formation of the comparative forms of adjective-adverbs | |
| The formation of the superlative forms of adverbs | |
| Numbers and dates | p. 209 |
| Cardinal numbers | |
| Ordinal numbers | |
| Dates | |
| Verbs | p. 211 |
| The present tense | |
| Modal verbs | |
| Separable and inseparable verbs | |
| Verbs associated with particular prepositions | |
| Reflexive verbs | |
| Tenses | p. 219 |
| The formation of the simple past tense of regular verbs | |
| The formation of the simple past tense of irregular verbs | |
| The perfect tense | |
| The pluperfect tense | |
| The future tense | |
| The future perfect tense | |
| List of irregular verbs with simple past and perfect forms | |
| The subjunctive | p. 226 |
| The use of the subjunctive | |
| The formation of the subjunctive | |
| The imperative mood | p. 230 |
| The passive voice | p. 231 |
| Word order | p. 233 |
| Main clauses | |
| The position of the direct and indirect object | |
| The position of other elements in the main clause | |
| Subordinate clauses | p. 236 |
| The occasional omission of conjunctions | |
| Relative clauses | |
| Key to the exercises | p. 240 |
| Glossary of terms | p. 251 |
| Taking it even further | p. 260 |
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