different forms of ‘a’: ‘ein’, ‘eine’, ‘ein'

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

German

Greetings and location:  'wo' and singular definite articles

Greetings and locating things: capital letters on German nouns

What is it? 'Was' and 'sagen'

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

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

Match these English statements about how someone is doing to the correct German equivalents.

True or false? The German sound [ei] is pronounced like the English word 'eye'. 

Match each German question to the appropriate answer.

Which of these words are indefinite articles?

Match these German words to their English translations.

introduces new information and identifies something unknown 

refers to something already mentioned or known

a word which describes an action or state

Which of these definitions correctly describes the indefinite article?

True or false? In German, there is only one word for 'the'?

Match the following German words to the correct gender.

Which of these is the correct translation of the sentence 'Wo ist der Gast?' into English?

Which of these words contain a long vowel sound?

Which of these words contain a short vowel sound?

True or false? 'Sein' and 'ist' mean 'to be, being' and 'is'.

Starter Quiz

True or false? In German, there is only one word for 'the'?