Family and friends: verbs with indirect objects
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Why this why now
Developing the thread of giving opinions, pupils learn the concept of verbs with indirect objects within the context of exchanging gifts. Accusative and dative are revisited with the prepositions 'für' and 'von'. Pupils build knowledge and confidence in giving opinions and reasons with a broader range of opinion verbs, and revisiting word order 3 with verbs with 'weil' and 'dass'. Pupils apply this knowledge in a range of familiar contexts.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know a range of weak and strong verbs in the present tense.
- Pupils know the proposition 'von' with the dative case.
- Pupils know verbs of opinion, for example 'denken' and 'glauben'.
- Pupils know word order 3 used with 'weil'.
- Pupils know all the German sound-symbol correspondences apart from [pf] and [kn]
Threads
Why this why now
Developing the thread of giving opinions, pupils learn the concept of verbs with indirect objects within the context of exchanging gifts. Accusative and dative are revisited with the prepositions 'für' and 'von'. Pupils build knowledge and confidence in giving opinions and reasons with a broader range of opinion verbs, and revisiting word order 3 with verbs with 'weil' and 'dass'. Pupils apply this knowledge in a range of familiar contexts.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know a range of weak and strong verbs in the present tense.
- Pupils know the proposition 'von' with the dative case.
- Pupils know verbs of opinion, for example 'denken' and 'glauben'.
- Pupils know word order 3 used with 'weil'.
- Pupils know all the German sound-symbol correspondences apart from [pf] and [kn]
Family and friends: verbs with indirect objects
This unit introduces verbs with indirect objects in familiar contexts involving family and friends. Pupils apply this in terms of exchanging gifts, and giving a range of opinions using verbs such as 'gefallen'. Word order 2 and 3 are revisited as pupils give opinions with or without 'dass'.
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