Personal details
At the beginning of a Lebenslauf, you will normally give your personal details. This means that you tell people your name, date of birth, address and telephone number.
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See whether you can match these details with the section on the CV where they belong.
Did you match them up correctly? Remember that even if there are words that you don’t know in an activity, you may still be able to work out the correct answer. Look for cognates and near-cognates. Once you have worked out some answers like this, you will find that there are fewer options that could be the correct answer for other questions – it’s a process of elimination, which will help you to narrow down the number of possible answers.
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Read this email and see whether you can fill in the personal details section for this person’s CV.
Did you know?
When the Germans give their address, they put their street name first, and then their house number. Look at this:
Nordstraße 8, Tönisvorst
This means that this person lives at number 8, Nordstraße (North Street).
Germans usually give out their phone numbers in separate digits like in English. But watch out, as some people occasionally choose to give out numbers in pairs, so you might hear the number 791 640 as either:
- sieben-neun-eins, sechs-vier-null - seven-nine-one, six-four-zero
- neunundsiebzig, sechzehn, vierzig - seventy-nine, sixteen, forty
