pronounced [a] as in 'kalt' and [a] as in 'sagen'

Greetings and locating things: capital letters on German nouns

German

Greetings and location:  'wo' and singular definite articles

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

Translate this sentence into English: Wo ist das Fenster?

Translate this sentence into German: The class is here.

Way to categorise all nouns as either feminine, masculine or neuter	

Refers to physical gender e.g. male, female

Greetings and locating things: capital letters on German nouns

Lesson outcome