3rd person singular pronoun meaning 'one, you', used to refer to people in general; its accusative form is 'einen' and its dative form is 'einem'

Die Sächsische Schweiz: 'man' + verb, 'Lieblings-' and 'Haupt-'

German

Badeschiff Berlin: possessive adjectives, modal verbs, 2-verb structures

16 Bundesländer: numbers, articles following 'in', 'zu', 'nach'

Eine Reise: present tense, separable verbs, possessive adjectives

Die Wuppertaler Schwebebahn: past tense, past participles, time-manner-place

Romantische Straße: future tense, present tense with adverbs to express future

Düsseldorf: past participles of strong and irregular verbs, questions

Graz: word order rules, possessive adjectives

Bern: 'es gibt' vs 'da sind', determiners and prepositions

Berlin: 'wissen' vs 'kennen'

Das Ruhrgebiet: perfect tense irregular verbs, imperfect tense, 'früher'

Frankfurter Buchmesse: uncountable quantifiers, abstract adjectival neuter nouns

This consolidation unit revisits all of the grammar covered in previous units in the context of travel destinations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Pupils learn to use 'man' in order to avoid the passive, and also learn 'sein' and 'ihr' in nominative, accusative and dative to mean 'its'.

Communication and the world around us: Reiseziele

Cognates have similar meanings in both languages.

False friends have similar meanings in both languages.

Cognates are pronounced the same in both languages.

False friends are pronounced the same in both languages.

Some words look like cognates, but are false friends.

'Das Smartphone hilft __________.'. Choose the correct missing word.

Order the words to say: 'It is said that there is a lot of traffic.'

Which of these English words is **not** a cognate in German?

'Ich sorge __________ mein Haustier.'. Choose the correct preposition.

Order the words to say: 'Digital technology can have lots of advantages.'

Write in English: 'Die Serie wird spannend sein.'

Starter Quiz

Which of these English words is not a cognate in German?