Birthdays: recounting personal experiences
I can understand and write about birthday experiences in past and present tenses.
Birthdays: recounting personal experiences
I can understand and write about birthday experiences in past and present tenses.
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Key learning points
- Numbers 20 and above are formed as unit + 'und' + ten, e.g., 21 - 'einundzwanzig'.
- There are a number of rules for forming noun plurals which should be learnt and practised.
- Encountering previously taught language when listening and reading in German develops our comprehension.
- Awareness of register helps us choose words and structures suited to spoken or written language.
Keywords
Noun - word for a person, place, or thing
Register - level of formality or style of language used, depending on the audience, purpose, and context
Common misconception
German numbers 21 and above work the same as in English: ten followed by unit.
In German, numbers 21 and above are structured unit-und-ten, e.g., 'einundzwanzig' - twenty-one. It translates literally as 'one and twenty'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
to eat, eating
to drive, travel
to read, reading
to bring with
to bake, baking
to celebrate, celebrating
evening
birthday
shop
morning
afternoon
night
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
add -e (sometimes with an umlaut)
no change
add -er (with or without umlaut)
add -n or -en
add -s