~It is taken for granted that the student already knows the common pronouns, the inflection of~ haben, sein, ~and~ werden ~and of the weak verb, and has become familiar with the words found early in every grammar, such as~ aber, groß, gut, immer, so, zwei, drei, weil, ~and so on.~ ~It is furthermore assumed that these exercises will be taken up in the order in which they appear here, the questions in each instance being answered before the translation into German is begun. This is mentioned because in some cases the English exercise that is set for translation contains words which do not occur in the text on which the exercise is based but which are found in the questions.~ ~Parentheses, in addition to their ordinary use, enclose hints on translation, the vocabulary form of words to be used in properly inflected form, or words to be inserted in the German that are not required in English.~ ~Square brackets enclose words that are to be omitted in German.~ ~Words connected by a tie or ties are to be rendered by a single word.~ ~The same abbreviations are used in these exercises as in the vocabulary.~ Die Fliege, die in die Schule ging. ~A.~ 1. Wie kam die Fliege in die Schulstube? 2. Warum war das Fenster offen? 3. Was lernte die Fliege in der Schule? 4. Wem gab die Fliege die erste Gesangstunde? 5. Wie kam es, daß sie sich in der ersten Gesangstunde beinahe den Hals brach? 6. Welches Lied lehrte sie ihren zweiten Schüler? 7. Gab die Fliege ihre dritte Gesangstunde einem Schüler oder einer Schülerin? (Ich stelle diese Frage, weil man auf deutsch sagt: /der/ Esel, /der/ Fisch, aber /die/ Ente.) 8. Können Sie mir nun auch sagen, ob unsere Fliege ein Gesanglehrer war oder eine Gesanglehrerin? 9. Glauben Sie, daß die Ente wirklich taub war? 10. Warum kann die Fliege jetzt keine Gesangstunden mehr geben? 11. Von wie vielen Tieren handelt diese Geschichte? 12. Wenn Sie in den Stammformen /fliegen/, /flog/, /ist geflogen/ statt des g ein h setzen, was bedeuten die Formen dann auf englisch? ~B. 1. It was a hot summer‿day. 2. The window of the schoolroom was open. 3. The children in the school were singing a song. 4. The fly was very (~sehr~) curious and flew through the window into the schoolroom.~ ~5. She soon (_position!_) learned the song which the children were singing. 6. Then (~dann~) she went into the wide world and gave the other (~ander~) animals singing‿lessons.~ ~7. On the meadow she saw (~sehen~) an old donkey grazing (_infinitive_), and she taught him her song. 8. But the old donkey was a very ungrateful fellow, for he almost broke her neck (to‿her the neck).~ ~9. Thereupon (~darauf~) the fly caught‿sight‿of a fish in the brook and wanted‿to (~wollen~) give him a singing‿lesson. 10. He was also ungrateful and splashed water on her.~