Note the Sprache im Alltag box on p.81 and its explanations of “bestimmt,” “wohl,” etc.
Remember that if a verb has a stem-change, the stem-change only happens in the 2nd and 3rd person singular (i.e. the du- and er/sie/es-forms). So: du isst, but ich esse; du siehst, but ich sehe; du trägst, but ich trage etc.
Listen to the Anlauftext [pp. 82-83 in the eBook] and do Aktivität 5
Versteht sie etwas von Politik? von Fußball? = Does she know anything about politics/soccer? [Literally: Does she understand something of…]
Aktivität 7 (Partner*innen): Replay the text, then do the activity.
Instructor reads statements from the overhead (without showing it); students decide in groups if these are typical of a student
Instructor shows the overhead; class discusses what was/was not “typisch”
Students describe themselves based on the prompts on the overhead, e.g. Ich stehe um 9 Uhr auf; Ich schlafe nicht in meinen Kursen; Ich rufe meine Familie jeden Tag an; Ich lerne in meinem Zimmer etc.
Note the stem-changing verbs in many of these questions!
OR: Wie sagt man “What do you like to eat?” [Was isst du gern?”] Wie sagt man “I like to eat SPAM®?” [Ich esse gern SPAM®] ==> Partners discuss what they like to eat using the food vocab p. 117