Greetings and locating things: capital letters on German nouns
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can capitalise and apply grammatical gender to nouns and ask and answer where something is.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- [a] can be short or long, but an 'e' at the end of a word is always very short, for example 'danke'.
- All German nouns start with a capital letter.
- German has three words for 'the': der (masculine), die (feminine) and das (neuter).
- Wo ist ..?', meaning 'Where is ... ?' is followed by the definite article and noun for simple location questions.
- Simple location questions can be answered using 'ist' (is) and 'hier' (here) or 'da' (there).
Keywords
[a] - pronounced [a] as in 'kalt' and [a] as in 'sagen'
Noun - a word for a person, place, or thing
Der, die, das - words for 'the'
Wo ist? - where is?
Common misconception
Only proper nouns have a capital letter.
In German, all nouns, regardless of where they are in a sentence, have a capital letter.
Teacher tip
Cycle 3 slides 27-30: Say the gender of either one and students respond by either turning their heads to the left or right or pointing at the correct picture. This can be framed as the partially completed question 'Wo ist der/die/das?'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the gender definitions.
Way to categorise all nouns as either feminine, masculine or neuter
Refers to physical gender e.g. male, female
Q2.Identify the nouns.
Q3.Which words mean 'the' in German?
Q4.Translate 'Mia ist hier' into English.
Q5.Match up the German with the English.
(the) window
(the) table
(the) bottle
Q6.Translate 'wo ist' into English.
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which word has a short [a] sound?
Q2.Which two words have a long [a] sound?
Q3.What does every noun in German need?
Q4.Put this sentence in the correct order.
Q5.Translate this sentence into English: Wo ist das Fenster?
Q6.Translate this sentence into German: The class is here.
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