New
New
Year 8

Describe others: adjective agreement (accusative), female person nouns with -in

Learning outcomes

I can identify adjective endings in reading, apply them when describing others and when translating text from English into German.

I can confidently pronounce the different [r] sounds.

Link copied to clipboard

New
New
Year 8

Describe others: adjective agreement (accusative), female person nouns with -in

Learning outcomes

I can identify adjective endings in reading, apply them when describing others and when translating text from English into German.

I can confidently pronounce the different [r] sounds.

Link copied to clipboard

These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.

These resources were created for remote use during the pandemic and are not designed for classroom teaching.

Lesson details

Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons

Key learning points

  1. [r] needs practice to distinguish its pronunciation depending on its within-word position and surrounding letters.
  2. Feminine words for jobs often add -in to the masculine noun, often resulting in the mid-word consonantal [r] sound.
  3. When adjectives come before nouns, they have different endings depending on the noun gender, type of article and case.
  4. Singular accusative adjective endings for indefinite articles are: -en (masculine), -e (feminine) and -es (neuter).
  5. 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.


To help you plan your year 8 german lesson on: Describe others: adjective agreement (accusative), female person nouns with -in, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...

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.
Teacher tip

Equipment

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Lesson video

Loading...

Some of our videos, including non-English language videos, do not have captions.

6 Questions

Q1.
'Sie hat __________ nichts gesagt.'. Choose the correct missing word.
nie
Correct answer: bisher
über
viel
sehr
Q2.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:Auge (nt),eye

eye

Correct Answer:Augen (ntpl),eyes

eyes

Correct Answer:Haar (nt),hair

hair

Correct Answer:Haare (ntpl),hair(s)

hair(s)

Correct Answer:Mund (m),mouth

mouth

Correct Answer:Nase (f),nose

nose

Q3.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:gegessen,ate, (have, has) eaten

ate, (have, has) eaten

Correct Answer:gelegen,lay, (have, has) lain

lay, (have, has) lain

Correct Answer:gesprochen,spoke, (have, has) spoken

spoke, (have, has) spoken

Correct Answer:geschrieben,wrote, (have, has) written

wrote, (have, has) written

Correct Answer:gesungen,sang, (have, has) sung

sang, (have, has) sung

Correct Answer:getroffen,(have, has) met

(have, has) met

Q4.
Order the words to say: 'As a child I spent time in France.'
1 - als
2 - Kind
3 - habe
4 - ich
5 - Zeit
6 - in Frankreich
7 - verbracht
Q5.
Write in English: 'Ich verbringe meinen Sommer in Spanien.'
Correct Answer: I spend my summer in Spain
Q6.
Write in German: 'He has a similar face.'
Correct Answer: Er hat ein ähnliches Gesicht, Er hat ein aehnliches Gesicht

5 Questions

Q1.
When is the German [r] a gentle 'ah' sound?
at a syllable start
after a consonant
between two vowels
Correct answer: after a long vowel
Q2.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:Schauspielerin (f),actor, actress

actor, actress

Correct Answer:Schülerin (f),student

student

Correct Answer:Lehrerin (f),teacher

teacher

Correct Answer:Sängerin (f),singer

singer

Correct Answer:Sportlerin (f),sportsperson, sportswoman

sportsperson, sportswoman

Correct Answer:Musikerin (f),musician

musician

Q3.
Match the articles to the correct noun and adjective pairs.
Correct Answer:einen,dünnen Mund

dünnen Mund

Correct Answer:eine,breite Nase

breite Nase

Correct Answer:ein,rundes Gesicht

rundes Gesicht

Correct Answer:keine,langen Haare

langen Haare

Q4.
'Wir kaufen __________ Schuhe.'. Choose the correct adjective.
neu
neuen
Correct answer: neue
neues
Q5.
Write in German: 'I sing a good song.'
Correct Answer: Ich singe ein gutes Lied

Additional material

Download additional material