Target group: Adults and young people aged 16 and over on all basic level courses (A1 to B1) worldwide. Learning objective: Steps International 2, together with Volume 1, leads to the A1 level and prepares you for the Start Deutsch 1 exam. Concept: You heard. Visible. I learned. To get you started, each lesson starts with a fun story from listening to pictures. With interesting themes, happy stories and plenty of local knowledge to experience. Success at any speed! Steps International offers many opportunities for internal differentiation. This enables you to specifically address different needs in your learning groups. Understood! The transparent structure and clear learning steps in the short lessons make learning and teaching easy. Learn by playing. Breaks for each lesson encourage fun and easy engagement with interesting cross-cultural reading and listening texts. It’s all in the frame! The language activities, grammar and vocabulary in Steps International fully comply with the requirements of the European Framework of Reference. The integrated workbook offers exercises and tasks on all pages in the course book at various levels of difficulty a detailed audio program teaching diaries teaching important learning strategies vocabulary learning pages writing practice tasks for self-assessment complete grammar overview repetition exercises The Stations offers a built-in audio CD – computer interactive repetition exercises for all lessons – audio texts and audio exercises for the training book.