Verkehrsmittel – Wortschatz

Welche Verkehrsmittel kennen Sie schon?

Arbeit mit dem Wortschatz

Welche Verkehrsmittel gibt es bei Ihnen? Machen Sie eine Liste mit der Gruppe.

Which modes of transportation do you have near you? Make a list with a group.

Arbeit mit dem Hören

Listen to the interviews with people about their experiences traveling in and around Vienna. Pay attention to any words from the vocabulary that you hear and use what you hear to complete the activities below.

Partnerarbeit: Sprechen

Wie fährst du zur Schule?

With a partner or in groups, describe how you get to campus. Here are some potential phrases that are useful.

mit dem Bus / mit dem Fahrrad / mit dem Auto / mit dem Skateboard fahren | zu Fuß gehen

S1: Wie kommst du zur Schule?
S2: Ich fahre mit dem Bus. Und du? Wie fährst du zur Schule?

You might have noticed that even though we say “der Bus” we use the expression “mit dem Bus” in the previous exercise to explain that we travel by bus, car, or other modes of transportation. This is because “mit” is a preposition and it changes the case of the noun. You’ve already learned about the nominative and accusative cases, now we’re going to learn about dative. Specifically we are focused on the prepositions that go along with the dative and the prepositions that have to do with the location of things and traveling.

Dative Case

Note: The nouns in dative plural get an extra -n added onto the end – unless they end in -s, then don’t do anything.

Dative Prepositions

Here is a list of prepositions that go along with the dative. You can usually figure out what they mean from context, but we’re going to go over a few of them over the next few lessons.

aus
außer
bei
mit
nach
seit
von
zu

As you can see, you have already used some of these prepositions, without even knowing that they were dative.

We’re going to focus on just a couple of them that are useful for talking about modes of transportation, but we’ll go over more of them throughout this section. Look at the explanations below to see how these prepositions are used to talk about travel and transportation.

You will also notice that you will sometimes see “vom” instead of “von” or “zur” instead of “zu”. These are contractions. They combine the prepositions with the articles. Take a look at the list below to see what some of the options are for contractions with dative prepositions.

bei + dem = beim
von + dem = vom
zu + der = zur
zu + dem = zum

Arbeiten mit den Strukturen

Let’s practice this a bit. We will go over this many times throughout this unit, so you will have plenty of chances to practice in the future.

Take a look at these photos. Choose one, and describe how you think some of these people travel and why?