Activities: time phrases, word order, prepositions
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' prior understanding strong and weak verbs. With the introduction of new vocabulary including time adverbials, they develop their knowledge in talking about when they do things. They will explore changes in word order when using time phrases and how to apply these to both statements and questions. Later in the unit, they will learn about the use of different cases (accusative and dative) to express movement or location with 'in' and 'auf'. This lays the foundation for later units addressing movement versus location.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know a range of high frequency weak and strong verbs in singular persons and 1st and 3rd person plural.
- Pupils know the verb 'können' in singular persons and the two-verb rule.
- Pupils know a wide range of previously taught high frequency vocabulary and cognates.
- Pupils know a wide range of sound-symbol correspondences, including vowels and [v], [r], [eu] and [th]
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Why this why now
This unit builds on pupils' prior understanding strong and weak verbs. With the introduction of new vocabulary including time adverbials, they develop their knowledge in talking about when they do things. They will explore changes in word order when using time phrases and how to apply these to both statements and questions. Later in the unit, they will learn about the use of different cases (accusative and dative) to express movement or location with 'in' and 'auf'. This lays the foundation for later units addressing movement versus location.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know a range of high frequency weak and strong verbs in singular persons and 1st and 3rd person plural.
- Pupils know the verb 'können' in singular persons and the two-verb rule.
- Pupils know a wide range of previously taught high frequency vocabulary and cognates.
- Pupils know a wide range of sound-symbol correspondences, including vowels and [v], [r], [eu] and [th]
Activities: time phrases, word order, prepositions
This unit introduces word order 2 for sentences starting with time adverbs. It contrasts word order 1 and 2 when describing what others do and when. Pupils then apply these rules to question forms. The dative case is introduced to describe location, plus sound-symbol correspondences [th] and [st].
6 lessons in unit
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