People and lifestyle: das Schulleben
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Why this why now
In this unit, pupils consolidate a wide range of grammar including present and perfect tenses, word order, and adjective agreement as prenominal superlative adjectives are introduced. Opportunities for comprehension and extended spoken production are provided in the context of the German education system. Pupils compare school life this year and last year, read about therapy dogs, peer pressure, and deepen their knowledge of the German school system in normal and unusual settings.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the present and perfect tense of separable verbs.
- Pupils know and are more confident with past participles of strong (irregular) verbs.
- Pupils know and can use the comparative 'gern, lieber and am liebsten' with present tense verbs.
- Pupils know the position of adverbs of time, manner and place.
- Pupils know adjective agreement with definite and indefinite articles in the nominative, accusative and dative cases..
Threads
Why this why now
In this unit, pupils consolidate a wide range of grammar including present and perfect tenses, word order, and adjective agreement as prenominal superlative adjectives are introduced. Opportunities for comprehension and extended spoken production are provided in the context of the German education system. Pupils compare school life this year and last year, read about therapy dogs, peer pressure, and deepen their knowledge of the German school system in normal and unusual settings.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the present and perfect tense of separable verbs.
- Pupils know and are more confident with past participles of strong (irregular) verbs.
- Pupils know and can use the comparative 'gern, lieber and am liebsten' with present tense verbs.
- Pupils know the position of adverbs of time, manner and place.
- Pupils know adjective agreement with definite and indefinite articles in the nominative, accusative and dative cases..
People and lifestyle: das Schulleben
This unit revisits separable verbs in present and perfect tenses, adjective agreement and use of time, manner, place adverbs. It introduces nouns and adjectives with prepositions, the preposition and adverb 'bis', superlative prenominal adjectives and abstract nouns, for example 'das Gute'.
9 lessons in unit
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