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

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

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

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 the German nouns below to the correct English translations.

Match the German question words to the correct English translations.

Match the questions below to the correct answers.

What is the most natural English translation of 'nicht wahr' at the end of a question?

The window is yellow. - 'Das fenster ist gelb.'

Hello, how are you? - 'Hallo, wie geht's?'

Where is the football? - 'Wer ist der Fußball?'

A translator has translated these sentences from English into German. Which ones are correct?

Match the German words below to the correct English translations.

Match each article to the correct grammatical gender.

Match up the long form of each German verb to the correct English translations.

Match the German adjectives to the correct English translations.

True or false? If someone asked you 'Wie sagt man das?', you would tell them how to say something.

Starter Quiz

Match the German words below to the correct English translations.