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Karli
Freund
Karli
Freund is a carpenter, He works with wood. Karli Freund needs
many different tools for his work.
He
needs saws, chisels, planes, drills,
hammers, screwdrivers, and a lathe. Karli
Freund also uses lots of sandpaper and glue.
Karli
Freund makes window frames, door frames and furniture
in his workshop.
And,
Karli loves his weekends as well. He has a very nice little wooden
house in the Vienna Woods, which,
by-the-way, he
built himself!
Karli
Freund is a carpenter. He loves his job very much.
Vocabulary
built
– gebaut (build/built/built)
by-the-way
- übrigens
carpenter
– Tischler
chisel
– Meißel
different
– verschieden
door
frames – Türrahmen
drill
– Bohrer
furniture
– Möbel
glue
- Klebstoff
lathe
- Drehbank / Dressel (Öst.)
need
– brauchen (need/needed/needed)
plane
- Hobel
sandpaper
– Schleifpapier
saw
- Säge
screwdriver
– Schraubenzieher
tools
– Werkzeug
window
frames – Fensterrahmen
wooden
- hölzern
workshop
- Werkstatt
Questions
1
– What tools does Karli Freund need for his job?
2
- Why does Karli Freund make in his workshop?
3
– What does Karli Freund do at weekends?
4
– Where is Karli Freund's little wooden house?
5
– Who built Karli Freund's little wooden house?
6
– Who chose the furniture?
7
- Why is wood beautiful?