Describe others: adjective agreement (accusative), female person nouns with -in
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can identify adjective endings in reading, apply them when describing others and when translating text from English into German.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- [r] needs practice to distinguish its pronunciation depending on its within-word position and surrounding letters.
- Feminine words for jobs often add -in to the masculine noun, often resulting in the mid-word consonantal [r] sound.
- When adjectives come before nouns, they have different endings depending on the noun gender, type of article and case.
- Singular accusative adjective endings for indefinite articles are: -en (masculine), -e (feminine) and -es (neuter).
- For accusative plural nouns after 'keine', the adjective ending is -en; without an article the accusative ending is -e.
Keywords
[r] - sound-symbol correspondence (SSC) pronounced as in 'reden' and 'Uhr'
Adjective agreement - when the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes in gender and number
Accusative - form(s) used for the object or 'receiver' of the action of the verb
Common misconception
The [r] sound in German is always the same, regardless of where it appears within the word.
German [r] can be pronounced in different ways. [r] is a gentle ‘rolling’ vibration pronounced from the back of the throat, if [r] is at a syllable start, after a consonant or between two vowels. [r] is a gentle ‘ah’ sound after a long vowel.
Teacher tip
Phonics and vocabulary can be easily and usefully combined in 'register routines', whereby pupils are given a sound-symbol correspondence, e.g., [r], and have to respond to the register with a German word containing that sound. Stipulating no repeated words keeps pupils listening to others, too.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.'Sie hat __________ nichts gesagt.'. Choose the correct missing word.
Q2.Match the German and English.
Q3.Match the German and English.
Q4.Order the words to say: 'As a child I spent time in France.'
Q5.Write in English: 'Ich verbringe meinen Sommer in Spanien.'
Q6.Write in German: 'He has a similar face.'
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.When is the German [r] a gentle 'ah' sound?
Q2.Match the German and English.
Q3.Match the articles to the correct noun and adjective pairs.
Q4.'Wir kaufen __________ Schuhe.'. Choose the correct adjective.
Q5.Write in German: 'I sing a good song.'
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