Local Area, Holiday and Travel

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    Candidates must demonstrate the ability to transact in tourist scenarios, describe geographical features and weather, and narrate past holiday experiences or future travel plans. Mastery requires the manipulation of time frames to contrast past holidays with future intentions, alongside the expression of justified opinions regarding accommodation, transport, and destination preferences. Responses must show command of transactional vocabulary and descriptive syntax.

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    Travel and Transport: Navigating public transport systems (Bahnhof, Flughafen); requires accurate use of the 24-hour clock, separable verbs (abfahren, ankommen), and prepositions of motion (nach, in, an).
    Accommodation and Services: Executing transactions for lodging; necessitates formal register (Sie-form) for reservations and complaints, utilizing conditional structures (ich möchte, ich hätte gern) and modal verbs.
    Tourist Activities and Weather: Describing regions and excursions; demands correct adjectival endings for description, 'wenn' clauses for weather dependencies, and the perfect tense with 'haben' vs 'sein' for narrating past events.

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