Festivals and traditions: using plural verbs reflexively
Learning outcomes
I can use verbs reflexively to describe people's self-directed actions in the context of traditional festivals.
I can use my knowledge of stress and sound-symbol correspondences to read text aloud with accurate pronunciation.
- Year 9
Festivals and traditions: using plural verbs reflexively
Learning outcomes
I can use verbs reflexively to describe people's self-directed actions in the context of traditional festivals.
I can use my knowledge of stress and sound-symbol correspondences to read text aloud with accurate pronunciation.
Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Idioms are expressions that often don’t have a literal meaning and may not translate directly into another language.
- Several German idioms include ‘Wurst’ because sausage is a culturally important German food, popular at many festivals.
- Stress is part of intonation and syllable stress refers to the syllable in a word that is spoken more strongly.
- Plural reflexive pronouns 'uns', 'euch' and 'sich' make verbs reflexive when subject and object are the same.
- In sentences where subject and object are different, 'uns' (us) and 'euch' (you all) are object pronouns.
Keywords
Idiom - phrase whose meaning isn’t always literal and doesn’t always translate word for word
Stress - pronouncing one syllable more heavily than other syllables in a word
Reflexive pronoun - used to indicate doing something to yourself, words like ‘myself’ and ‘yourself’
Common misconception
The meaning of all German phrases should be taken literally.
Just like English, German contains idioms, phrases that mean something other than their literal meaning, e.g., ‘da haben wir den Salat’ - 'we have the salad there', which should be understood as 'now we have a problem'.
Equipment
A mini whiteboard and pen, together with pen and paper for making notes, would be useful, if available.
Licence
Lesson video
Loading...
Some of our videos, including non-English language videos, do not have captions.
Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the subject to the correct object pronoun.
Q2.Match the German and the English.
Q3.Match each verb to its meaning.
Q4.How do you say '14:35' in German using the 24-hour clock?
Q5.Put the words below in the correct order to form an open question in German.
Q6.Translate into English: 'dann wasche ich mich'.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Complete the following sentence using the correct reflexive pronoun: 'Wir waschen .'
Q2.Match each idiom to its meaning.
