German Essay Writing Notes for Foreign/Second Language Learners
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REMINDERS
● viel Verschmutzung - cannot count
● viele Menschen - can count
● wegen + genitive
TYPE OF ESSAY
1) Leserbrief
● A letter to the news-editor
● Explain what article you are referring to (refer to the topic of the essay) and why you are
writing the letter.
● Start with: e.g “Sehr geehrter Herr Schmidt”
2) Beitrag
● An article
● Start with: e.g “Hallo Leute!”
LAYOUT
1) Short introduction + Summary of all 4 points (make sure to reword)
● SEHR GEEHRTER HERR SCHMIDT
● Rhetorical question
● Peter sagt / behauptet / meint / glaubt / denkt / ist der
Meinung, dass… / ist der Ansicht, dass… / ist der
Auffassung, dass…
2) Opinion on all 4 ideas
● Use a personal experience to show that you can use the past tense
● Advantages + disadvantages of each idea
● Im Vergleich
● Doppelt so viel wie
● … weniger/mehr als
● Es gibt ein bisschen Altersbeschränkungen, zum Beispiel…
3) Own idea
● Use the future tense (Konjunktiv 2)
○ Make some suggestions - what would you change/improve?
● Use the conditional to talk about the consequences if we were to use someone else’s idea
● HOCHACHTUNGSVOLL - YOURS RESPECTFULLY
● Empfehlen, vorschlagen, beantragen
● Ich würde gerne eine bessere Idee vorschlagen.
● Das Ergebnis ist abhängig von Teamarbeit und Fleiß.
● Es wäre sinnvoll, die Möglichkeiten dieses Projekts zu
prüfen
,** zu etw.Dat Stellung nehmen verb
give one's view on sth. v
die Mehrheit (Eine Mehrheit von…)
der Großteil the majority
die Mehrzahl
die Minderheit the minority
die Minderzahl
die Tatsache the fact
der Fakt
der Sachverhalt the situation
die Berichterstattung the report
die Ausrede the excuse
der Gebrauch the use
der Zweck the purpose
die Bestimmung
der Plan
das Vorhaben the plan
der Entwurf
die Abhängigkeit the addiction
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