A music festival: perfect and imperfect, adjective endings
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use adjectives and different tenses to describe experiences at a music festival.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- The gender of a noun needs to be learnt, together with its meaning, spelling and sound.
- Nominative adjective endings are used when the noun is the subject, the person or thing doing the action.
- Accusative adjective endings are used when the noun is the direct object, directly receiving the action.
- 'War', 'hatte' and 'es gab' are imperfect tense verbs used to describe what things were like.
Keywords
Adjective - word that gives information about a noun
Imperfect tense - tense used to describe how things were or used to be in the past, or to say what was happening
Common misconception
Adjectives only change their spelling according to the gender of the noun they describe.
Adjectives change their spelling to match both the gender of the noun and the case, e.g., 'das ist ein lustiger Hund', 'ich habe einen lustigen Hund'.
Teacher tip
Teachers may wish to extend students' cultural awareness of German music festivals by sourcing suitable materials such as images and videos online. Festivals that can be searched for include Rock am Ring, Wave-Gotik-Treffen and Parookaville.
Equipment
A mini whiteboard and pen, together with pen and paper for making notes, would be useful, if available.
Licence
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which word means 'finally'?
Q2.Match the German and English.
to listen, listening
to sleep, sleeping
to dance, dancing
to understand, understanding
to play, playing
to stop, stopping
Q3.Match the German and English.
cat
people
person
mosque
number
lake
Q4.Order the words to say: 'a yellow hat and yellow trousers'.
Q5.Write in English: 'der Strand ist angenehm'.
Q6.Write in German: 'the railway station is very small'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Adjectives in German change their spelling according to ...
Q2.Match the German and English.
there was, there were
had
was
Q3.'Das ist __________ Tasche.' Choose the correct missing words.
Q4.'Ich sehe __________ Fluss.' Choose the correct missing words.
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