Family experiences: relative clauses
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Based on the core foundation of present tense knowledge, this unit introduces pupils to relative clauses, which are applied firstly to define and describe people and things, (who, which, that). This is in the familiar context of family and neighbours. Then pupils practise using relative clauses to talk about particular characteristics, learning to embed the relative clause into a main clause. This is practised in the context of a murder mystery party, with the added cultural context of the German TV series 'Tatort' .
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know and can use word order 3 with single verb structures.
- Pupils can use adjective endings after indefinite articles in nominative, accusative and dative cases.
- Pupils know and can pronounce and read aloud the German sound-symbol correspondences.
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Why this why now
Based on the core foundation of present tense knowledge, this unit introduces pupils to relative clauses, which are applied firstly to define and describe people and things, (who, which, that). This is in the familiar context of family and neighbours. Then pupils practise using relative clauses to talk about particular characteristics, learning to embed the relative clause into a main clause. This is practised in the context of a murder mystery party, with the added cultural context of the German TV series 'Tatort' .
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know and can use word order 3 with single verb structures.
- Pupils can use adjective endings after indefinite articles in nominative, accusative and dative cases.
- Pupils know and can pronounce and read aloud the German sound-symbol correspondences.
Family experiences: relative clauses
This unit introduces introduces relative clauses in the nominative cases, as well as the indefinite pronouns 'jemand' and 'niemand'. Pupils also learn to embed (non-defining) relative clauses within main clauses and revisit adjective endings with indefinite articles.
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