English and German schools: pronouns 'uns' and 'ihnen'
I can use object pronouns to talk about school.
- Year 8
English and German schools: pronouns 'uns' and 'ihnen'
I can use object pronouns to talk about school.
Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Practising vocabulary, both known and new, is important for building language knowledge.
- Starting school in Germany is different from a child’s first day at school in England.
- Many German verbs are followed by direct objects or pronouns; two plural direct object pronouns are ‘uns' and 'sie'.
- Some German verbs use indirect or dative objects; two plural indirect object pronouns are 'uns' and 'ihnen'.
- Sometimes indirect object pronouns mean ‘to us’, ‘to them’, etc., but they can just mean ‘us’, ‘them’.
Keywords
Dative - case used for the indirect object in a sentence and after a dative verb or preposition
Indirect object pronoun - replaces the person, people or thing(s) that the verb action is done to, when the action is to me, for you, to them, also called dative pronoun
Common misconception
Object pronouns like me, him, they are always the same in German, like English.
German object pronouns can be direct or indirect; they change their spelling depending on the case needed, e.g. direct object pronoun 'dich' - you is accusative; indirect object pronoun 'dir' - you is dative. The case is often determined by the verb.
Equipment
A mini whiteboard and pen, together with pen and paper for making notes, would be useful, if available.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the German word with its correct English meaning.
Q2.Which German word means “our”?
Q3.What do we call a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or use?
Q4.Which of these means 'their telephone' in German?
Q5.In which word is the syllable [er] not usually stressed?
Q6.Match the German and the English
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.Match the English and the German.
