Make changes at home: prepositions and verbs of location and movement
Learning outcomes
I can use verbs and prepositions correctly to talk about placing, moving and locating items in the context of changing things at home.
I can distinguish betweeen [u] and [ü] and pronounce both accurately.
- Year 9
Make changes at home: prepositions and verbs of location and movement
Learning outcomes
I can use verbs and prepositions correctly to talk about placing, moving and locating items in the context of changing things at home.
I can distinguish betweeen [u] and [ü] and pronounce both accurately.
Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Short [u] is pronounced as in 'Punkt' and long [u] as in 'du'; short [ü] sounds as in 'fünf' and long [ü] as in 'Tür'.
- Dual-case prepositions take the accusative case with movement and the dative case for location.
- Three placement verbs ‘stellen’, ‘setzen’, ‘legen’ describe putting something somewhere, and take the accusative case.
- Placement verbs can also be used reflexively for animate objects, when the sentence's subject and object are the same.
- When items are already in position, we use equivalent position verbs 'stehen', 'sitzen' and 'liegen' with the dative.
Keywords
[u] - pronounced short as in 'Punkt' and long as in 'du'
[ü] - pronounced short as 'fünf' and long as in 'Tür'
Dual-case preposition - preposition followed either by accusative to indicate movement or by dative to indicate location
Placement verb - verb that describes putting something somewhere, taking the accusative case
Position verb - verb that describes where something is
Common misconception
German has one general verb meaning 'to put, putting'.
German has 3 placement verbs meaning 'to put'; 'stellen' - to make something stand (vertically), 'setzen' - to make something sit, and 'legen' - to make something lay down (horizontally). Equivalent position verbs are 'stehen', 'sitzen', 'liegen'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which word means 'at least'?
Q2.Match the German and English.
Q3.Match the German and English.
Q4.Match the German and English.
Q5.Order the words to say: 'There is neither food nor drinks.'
Q6.Write in German: 'the music was too loud'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Match the words to their missing sounds.
