How to buy a German train ticket from a machine

Whenever I teach a beginners’ class there is always the obligatory lesson on how to buy a train ticket. You know the ones, asking how much a ticket is and then buying it …

But what do you do when you get to the station and there is no kiosk to buy your ticket, only a machine or nothing at all?

You panic! Right?

No, you won’t because a) there will be machines, either at the station or on the train, b) the machines can be set to the English language, but that’s not much fun, and c) I will show...