mann

paar

fahren

klasse

danke

Greetings and location:  'wo' and singular definite articles

German

Greetings and locating things: capital letters on German nouns

What is it? 'Was' and 'sagen'

Identifying things: ‘ist’, ‘sein’ and learning vocabulary

How's it going? 'Wie' and the singular indefinite articles 'ein', 'eine', 'ein'

What is it like? 'Ist' with adjectives

Describe things: 'sein' 1st and 2nd person singular, negation 'nicht' and 'kein'

Classroom conversations: German alphabet

Who, what, how and where? Forming questions, compound nouns

This unit introduces core vocabulary and grammatical gender to identify and describe items in the classroom. The verb 'sein', definite and indefinite articles and key question words enable simple conversations. Pupils practise sound-symbol correspondences long and short [a] and [e], [ei] and [z]

In the classroom:  'sein', nouns, articles, questions

Which of these words is needed to fill the gap in the following sentence in order to correctly translate the sentence 'Where is Lucas?' into German? '__________ ist Lucas?' 

Would you greet a teacher with 'Hallo' or 'Guten Tag'?

Which of these words contain the short [a] sound?

Which of these words contain the long [a] sound?

Match up the German forms of 'the' with their grammatical gender.

Which word is the verb in the following sentence? 'I play football.'

Match each of these German words to the correct English translations.

Which of these words is a definite article?

Starter Quiz

Where is German spoken?