Childhood experiences: nouns, past tense, conjunctions
Learning outcomes
I can recognise correspondences between German and English nouns and can use a range of familiar vocabulary with the past tense, to understand Germany's past and discuss my childhood.
I can correctly pronounce a range of sound-symbol correspondences.
- Year 9
Childhood experiences: nouns, past tense, conjunctions
Learning outcomes
I can recognise correspondences between German and English nouns and can use a range of familiar vocabulary with the past tense, to understand Germany's past and discuss my childhood.
I can correctly pronounce a range of sound-symbol correspondences.
Lesson details
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Key learning points
- German nouns ending '-heit' often correspond to English nouns ending '-ity', '-ness', e.g., 'die Sicherheit' (security).
- After WW2, Germany was split into West and East Germany. Life was very different in each country.
- Use the perfect tense and shorter imperfect tense forms 'war', 'waren', 'es gab', 'hatte' to narrate past events.
- The conjunctions 'als' or 'bevor' trigger word order three and can be used at the start of a sentence.
- If 'als' or 'bevor' begin a clause, the following clause uses word order two, creating a verb-comma-verb pattern.
Keywords
War - imperfect tense form meaning 'was'
Waren - imperfect tense form meaning 'were'
Es gab - imperfect tense form meaning 'there was | there were'
Hatte - imperfect tense form meaning 'had'
Word order three - after certain conjunctions, the verb is sent to the end of the sentence or clause
Common misconception
There aren't any patterns in German nouns that help you identify their grammatical gender.
There are some suffixes in German nouns that signal the noun is feminine, for example '-heit', '-ung', '-in'. There may be some exceptions!
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of the following is a conjunction meaning 'after' and sends the verb to the end of the clause/sentence?
Q2.Match up the German and the English.
Q3.Fill in the missing word in the following sentence: '__________ der Schule spiele ich Tennis.' (After school, I play tennis.)
Q4.Choose the correct word for 'when' in the following sentence: '__________ ich nach Deutschland gefahren bin, habe ich meinen Freund besucht.' (When I went to Germany, I visited my friend.)
Q5.Match the German and the English.
