Chapter 2"The red wolf". A thriller textbook

The thriller textbook "The Red Wolf" by Janet Clark and Angelika Jo tells the exciting story of Hugo, Elli and the mysterious appearance of a red wolf. The thriller textbook is part of the Facebook Thriller series of the Goethe-Institut Mexico and contains reading comprehension, grammar and vocabulary exercises for each chapter. Beautiful, mysterious Black Forest. A nice village. All quiet - an idyll. At the moment, it's a little too quiet for police inspector Sepp because today the young Mexican Hugo is going to start working for him as a volunteer. But then something happens. Six sheep lie dead in the grass. And a red wolf has appeared. Mayor Gäbl believes the wolf killed the sheep. People are getting restless, they think wolves are evil, dangerous animals that shoot be shot. "No!" says young Elli, a student and wolf expert. "Wolves don't eat people. Those are old fairy tales!" Really? No one wants to believe Elli, everyone wants to kill the wolf. Only Hugo and the mayor's wife stand by her. And then there is another victim - but this time it is a human being: Elli's grandmother. She is badly injured. "Kill the wolf!" everyone shouts. Hugo and Elli still don't give up and continue to investigate. Until Elli herself disappears...in the deep, dark forest.

Learning Objectives: Learners (L) can globally understand the text and the topics "police work" "village life" "wolves". The L can extract relevant information from the story and answer specific questions about it. They can reproduce the main information in writing. The L can determine the gender of a noun by its ending. They discover reflexive verbs. The L can distinguish verbs with accusative and dative. They can recognize separable prefixes and clause brackets. The L can distinguish weak and strong verbs and use them in the perfect tense. The L know modal verbs and can conjugate them. They can use the imperative and can formulate subordinate clauses with that, because and if.