A new home and new neighbours: word patterns and word order
I can use a growing vocabulary to talk about a new home and new neighbours, varying word order to emphasise specific ideas in my responses to questions.
- Year 8
A new home and new neighbours: word patterns and word order
I can use a growing vocabulary to talk about a new home and new neighbours, varying word order to emphasise specific ideas in my responses to questions.
Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Knowing key word patterns helps us understand words more quickly and recall them more easily.
- Add 'Haupt-' to nouns to mean 'main'. The created noun has the gender of its base noun: 'die Idee' - 'die Hauptidee'.
- 'Wo' is the question word 'where'; it asks where something is located and is answered in the dative case.
- 'Wohin' is the question word 'where to'; it asks where something is going and is answered in the accusative case.
- Start German sentences with any element (e.g., object, adverb) to emphasise it. The verb stays in 2nd place.
Keywords
Haupt- - prefix added to nouns to mean 'main', e.g., 'Hauptidee' - 'main idea'
Wo - question word asking where something is located and answered in the dative case
Wohin - question word asking where something is going and answered in the accusative case
Word order two (WO2) - inverts the subject and verb in a sentence by starting the sentence with an element other than the subject
Common misconception
German word order is just like English - it's always subject-verb-object.
In English, word order is usually fixed: subject-verb-object, e.g., 'she eats an apple'. In German, the word order is more flexible because in main clauses the verb must be in second position. Any element can start a German sentence for emphasis.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.'Das Bild hängt __________ Wand.' Choose the correct missing words.
Q2.Match the German and English.
Q3.Match the German and English.
