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Christmas: singular and plural nouns

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In this unit, pupils consolidate their knowledge of 'sein' and 'haben' in the context of Christmas traditions and songs in German speaking countries. Throughout the unit, they will extend their ability to label and describe items with plural nouns (using 4 of the 9 German rules for plurals) and numbers. They will also extend their range of questions.

Prior knowledge requirements

  • Pupils know 'haben', 'sein' and a range of weak verbs in the infinitive and in singular forms.
  • Pupils know the gender of pre-learned words.
  • Pupils know a range of sound-symbol correspondences, including long and short vowels [a].[e]. [i], [o] and [u].
  • Pupils know how to form verb-subject-object questions with question words.

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Why this why now

In this unit, pupils consolidate their knowledge of 'sein' and 'haben' in the context of Christmas traditions and songs in German speaking countries. Throughout the unit, they will extend their ability to label and describe items with plural nouns (using 4 of the 9 German rules for plurals) and numbers. They will also extend their range of questions.

Prior knowledge requirements

  • Pupils know 'haben', 'sein' and a range of weak verbs in the infinitive and in singular forms.
  • Pupils know the gender of pre-learned words.
  • Pupils know a range of sound-symbol correspondences, including long and short vowels [a].[e]. [i], [o] and [u].
  • Pupils know how to form verb-subject-object questions with question words.

Christmas: singular and plural nouns

This unit introduces pupils to 4 rules for forming plural nouns in German and provides opportunities for practice with the use of 'es gibt'. It will also teach pupils how to use plurals with 'sein' 3rd person plural, and 'sie' meaning 'they'. They practise sound-symbol correspondence [ü] and [ä].

8 lessons in unit

  1. 1

    Christmas: definite article 'die', plurals with umlaut +e, no change -el/-en/-er

    I can apply masculine and neuter plural rules 1 and 2 and understand some German Christmas traditions.
  2. 2

    Christmas: 'Es gibt' with plurals, the song 'O Tannenbaum'

    I can apply masculine and neuter plural rules 1 and 2 to build sentences with ‘es gibt’ and ‘viele’.
  3. 3

    Christmas traditions: 'sein' 3rd person singular and plural, plurals - +(e)n

    I can recognise and use German plural rule 3 - add -(e)n to feminine nouns - and say what things are like using ‘ist’ and ‘sind’.
  4. 4

    Christmas traditions: singular and plural nouns

    I can recognise and use three different plural rules, understand some German Christmas traditions and write a Christmas letter in German.
  5. 5

    Saying what something is like: subject pronouns 'er', 'sie', 'es' for 'it'

    I can say what something is like, identifying grammatical gender and using the correct word for ‘it’.
  6. 6

    What you and others have and what it is like: subject pronoun 'sie' for 'they'

    I can describe what I and others have, using the correct subject pronouns for 'it' and 'they', and I can understand a longer text on Christmas in Berlin.
  7. 7

    Numbers 1-12: plurals adding umlaut + -er

    I can count to twelve in German, and recognise plurals of masculine, feminine and neuter nouns using four different plural rules.
  8. 8

    How many? Ask questions and give statements with plural nouns

    I can ask and answer questions in speaking and writing about more than one thing, and build my own sentences from known vocabulary.

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