Greetings and location: 'wo' and singular definite articles
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can greet a teacher or friend, ask and answer about where someone is, and recognise the definite article 'the'.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- 'Hallo' is an informal greeting meaning 'hello' or 'hi' and 'Guten Tag' is a more formal version of 'hello'.
- 'Wo ist?' asks 'where is?' in simple location questions.
- [a] can be either short (followed by 2 consonants) or long (followed by a single consonant, double vowel or 'h').
- German has three words for 'the': der (masculine), die (feminine) and das (neuter).
- Every noun in German has a grammatical gender, which is not the same as biological gender.
Keywords
Wo - where
Ist - is
[a] - pronounced short [a] as in kalt and long [a] as in sagen
Definite article - different forms of the singular ‘the’: ‘der’, ‘die’, ‘das’
Common misconception
Grammatical gender is the same as biological gender. If a word is feminine we think of it as a girl if it is masculine we think of it as a boy.
Grammatical gender is not the same as biological gender.
Teacher tip
Focus on the importance of learning noun gender. Native speakers of languages with gender begin to predict what is going to be talked about as soon as the gender word is said i.e. if there are two objects in view and just the word for ‘the’ is said, it is clear what is being talked about.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Where is German spoken?
Q2.Which of these words is a noun?
Q3.Which of these words is an adjective?
Q4.Which word is the verb in the following sentence? 'I play football.'
Q5.Match each of these German words to the correct English translations.
Q6.Which of these words is a definite article?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these words is needed to fill the gap in the following sentence in order to correctly translate the sentence 'Where is Lucas?' into German? '__________ ist Lucas?'
Q2.Would you greet a teacher with 'Hallo' or 'Guten Tag'?
Q3.Which of these words contain the short [a] sound?
Q4.Which of these words contain the long [a] sound?
Q5.Match up the German forms of 'the' with their grammatical gender.
Q6.Which of these is correct?
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