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The Ultimate Guide to Dutch Grammar for the A1 and A2 Levels With Teacher's Companion

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This is a PDF-file of 471 pages.

This book provides learners and teachers with a detailed insight into Dutch grammar, focusing on the beginner levels A1 and A2. It also includes additional information to facilitate the transition to higher levels. Clarity, thoroughness, and completeness are the core objectives of this publication.


Throughout the book, schematic analyses of example sentences present consistent colour coding and glossing of sentence elements. The colour scheme used in the example sentences matches that of the sentence-structure tables, ensuring coherence. All examples are numbered and translated into English for easy reference and discussion.


Grammar concepts are explained in a way that helps learners understand why structures function as they do. These explanations are informed by common questions from students in the classroom. Frequent mistakes made by learners are also presented, demonstrating potential errors and illustrating the boundaries of grammatical rules. Additionally, numerous tables summarize key aspects such as sentence structures, sentence elements, verb conjugations, and pronouns. All Dutch words used in these tables are translated into English.


The book is divided into five parts, beginning with the topic that, based on the author's experience, students refer to most: sentence structure. Part 1 covers different sentence types and conjunctions, starting with broad sentence structures before gradually addressing smaller components. Part 2 focuses on sentence constituents, called elements of the sentence. Part 3 examines the various forms verbs can take, including present and past tense conjugations, past participle formation, separable verbs, and related topics. Part 4 explains the use of verb tenses and modal verbs. Part 5 explores the noun phrase and its components, including nouns, articles, prepositions, adjectives, pronouns, and numbers. The book concludes with five appendices. Appendices 1 and 2 are lexicons of grammatical terms, one from English to Dutch and the other from Dutch to English. Appendix 3 provides a list of irregular verbs. Appendix 4 contains a treasure trove of handouts with grammar and exercises as well as worksheets for guided discovery of grammatical structures that can be completed in class or online. All exercise handouts contain instructions for the students and an answer key. Appendix 5 is the Teacher’s Companion. This compendium contains detailed instructions for teachers on how to best use the worksheets and different types of exercises in Appendix 4.


This book is designed for both teachers and learners. It is suitable for new learners at the A1 and A2 levels, as well as those refreshing their grammar knowledge before or during B1 classes. Teachers can use it to prepare lessons, not only because of the ready-to-use examples but also because the book provides clear explanations that can be used verbatim or adapted for classroom instruction.


Contents


Introduction

List of abbreviations

PART 1. SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND SENTENCE TYPES

1. Overview of the structure of the sentence

2. Questions to find different elements in the sentence

3. The clause and the sentence

4. Types of sentences

5. Independent Clauses (Hoofdzin)

6. Blue Conjunctions: linking two independent clauses

7. Dependent Clauses (Bijzin) and Pink Conjunctions

8. Dependent questions: indirect questions

PART 2. THE ELEMENTS OF THE SENTENCE

9. The Verb

10. What is going on in the sentence?

11. The Topic

12. The Subject

13. The Complement

14. The Object

15. The Target element

16. Describing the action: adverbs and adverbials

17. Negation: geen, niet

18. Other adverbs that behave like geen and niet: ook, wel

19. Er = Dummy Subject

20. ER/DAAR/HIER replace a Place

PART 3. VERBAL FORMS AND CONJUGATION

21. The infinitive and the root

22. Conjugation (1): Present tense

23. The past participle: formation

24. Conjugation (2): past-tense

25 Verbs that have roots ending in -v or -z: present past, and past participle

26 Separable verbs

PART 4. VERBAL TENSES AND MODAL VERBS

27 Quick overview of the usages of the different tenses

28 Introduction

29 The Present

30 The present continuous

31 Modal Verbs

32 Talking about the future

33 The imperfectum

34 The Perfectum

PART 5. THE NOUN PHRASE AND ITS BUILDING BLOCKS

35 Nouns

35.6 Classifier constructions: een kopje koffie, een kilo aardappels

36 The noun phrase

37 The Articles

38 Position Verbs and prepositions

39 Adjectives

40 Personal Pronouns

41 Demonstrative pronouns

42 Numbers

42.1 Cardinal numbers

42.2 Ordinal numbers

42.3 Years

Appendix 1. Lexicon of grammatical Terms: English – Dutch

Appendix 2. Lexicon of grammatical terms: Dutch English

Appendix 3. Handouts: Grammar, Worksheets and Exercises

Grammar: Question Words A1-Level

Grammar: The Article A1-level

Grammar: The Adjective A1-Level

Grammar: Position verbs A1-Level

Grammar: Prepositions A1-Level

Grammar: Demonstrative Pronouns A1-Level

Grammar: The Plural A1-Level and beyond

Grammar: Negation A1-Level

Grammar: Negation, Some Specific Expressions A2-Level

Grammar: Conjunctions A2-Level

Grammar: Separable Verbs A2-Level

Worksheet Separable Verbs A2-Level

Worksheet Separable Verbs: Answers

Worksheet ER/DAAR A2-Level

ER/DAAR: Answer Sheet

Perfectum: Worksheet for Teachers A1-Level

Perfectum: Worksheet for Students A1-Level

Worksheet Sentence Structure A2-Level

Listening and speaking exercise: Possessive Pronouns A1-level

Listening and Speaking Exercise: The Plural A1-Level

Listening and speaking exercise: Object Pronouns A1-Level

Listening and speaking exercise: Perfectum (1) A1-Level

Listening and speaking exercise: Perfectum (2) A1-Level

Listening and speaking exercise: Perfectum & Imperfectum A2-Level

Listening and speaking exercise: Reflexive Pronouns A2-Level

Listening and speaking exercise: Separable Verbs (1) A2-Level

Listening and speaking exercise. Separable Verbs (2) A2-Level

Listening and speaking exercise: Indirect Questions A2-Level

Listening and speaking exercise: ER / DAAR A2-Level

Verb practice: Present tense (1) A1-Level

Verb practice: Present tense (2) A1-Level

Verb practice: Present tense (3) A1-Level

Verb practice: Present tense (4) A1-Level

Verb practice: Present tense (5) A1-Level

Verb practice: Perfectum (1) A1-Level

Verb practice: Perfectum (2) A1-Level

Verb practice: Perfectum (3) A1-Level

Verb practice: Imperfectum A2-Level

Exercise: Making Questions A1-level

Exercise: Starting a sentence with something that is not the subject A1-Level

Exercise: Making a proposition A1-Level

Exercise with Personal Object Pronouns A1-Level

Exercise with Personal Subject and Object Pronouns A1-Level

Exercise with Prepositions A1-Level

Exercise with Separable Verbs A2-Level

Exercise with Indirect questions (1) A2-Level

Exercise with Indirect questions (2) A2-Level

Exercise with word order in Independent Clauses A2-Level

Exercise with Personal Pronouns and ER (1) A2-Level

Exercise with Personal Pronouns and ER (2) A2-Level

Exercise with ER/DAAR A2-Level

Exercises with Conjunctions (1) A2-Level

Exercises with Conjunctions (2) A2-Level

Exercise with Reflexive Verbs and Elkaar A2-Level

Negation Quiz 1 A1-Level

Negation Quiz 2 A1-Level

Negation Quiz 3 A1-Level

Negation Quiz 4 A1-Level

What is wrong? / Wat is er fout? (1) A1-Level

What is wrong? / Wat is er fout? (2) A1-Level

What is wrong? / Wat is er fout? (3) A2-Level

Appendix 4. Teacher’s Companion

1. Introduction

2. Grammar handouts – Teachers’ Instructions

3. Worksheets

3.1 Worksheet Separable Verbs – Teachers’ Instructions

3.2 Worksheet ER/DAAR – Teachers’ Instructions

3.3 Perfectum Worksheet for Students – Teachers’ Instructions

3.4 Worksheet sentence Structure – Teachers’ Instructions

4. Listening and Speaking exercises – Teachers’ Instructions

5. Verb Practice exercises – Teachers’ Instructions

6. Grammar exercises – Teachers’ Instructions

7. Negation Quizzes – Teachers’ Instructions

8. What is wrong? – Teachers’ instructions

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