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
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