Toorington People - Karli Freund

 

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?

 

Toorington LIfe - Inventions

  

Inventions

The world is full of inventions. Some good, some bad, and some good and bad! Aeroplanes are very good examples. They can take us to very nice places, and, they can drop bombs on our heads. Good and evil! Night and day!

So, what does Maxi B. Acs say? He says that pencil cases are the most useful inventions he knows. He always knows where his pencils are.

And, what does Helga Indra say? Her favourite invention is the mobile phone. She can speak all-day-long to her friends!

But, for many people, the computer is the most important invention of all. I don't agree. I believe the wheel is the most important of all! Wheels make life very easy.  Imagine a car with no wheels.

Vocabulary

agree – zustimmen (agree/agreed/agreed)

all-day-long – den Ganzen Tag

believe – glauben (believe/believed/believed)

day – Tag

ever – jemals

evil – böse

examples – Beispiele

important – wichtig (important/more important/the most important))

impossible – unmöglich

inventions - Erfindungen

many – viele (much – viel)

mobile (phone) – Handy -used mainly without „phone“

night – Nacht

pencil case - Fedepenal

people – Menschen

say – sagen (say/said/said)

some are good – Manche sind gut

without - ohne

zero – Null

Questions and Points for Discussion!

Name four inventions which are good and bad!

What is the most important invention ever?

Why are computers very good inventions?

What have you invented?

Who invented the aeroplane?

What are the most important household inventions?

What do you think of cars?