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?