Popular culture: Kulturszene
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This unit provides a cultural backdrop in which pupils revisit known grammar and vocabulary, adding new vocabulary as they explore cultural traditions and famous lives in German speaking countries. The perfect tense with haben and sein and the simple past are reactivated, together with comparative adverbs, plural nouns, nationality nouns and relative clauses. Cultural traditions in Austria and Switzerland are explored in texts and exercises, and the lives and influence of famous German speakers, including the Grimm Brothers and the first Nobel peace prize winner Bertha Suttner are examined.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the perfect tense with haben and sein. With sein pupils know change of state verbs.
- Pupils know how to form plural nouns.
- Pupils know and can use irregular nationality nouncs, for example Deutsche.
- Pupils know and can use the perfect tense and the simple past (sein, haben, es gab) with adverbs, for example gern, lieber.
- Pupils know comparative adverbs.
- Pupils know and can use subject relative clauses
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Why this why now
This unit provides a cultural backdrop in which pupils revisit known grammar and vocabulary, adding new vocabulary as they explore cultural traditions and famous lives in German speaking countries. The perfect tense with haben and sein and the simple past are reactivated, together with comparative adverbs, plural nouns, nationality nouns and relative clauses. Cultural traditions in Austria and Switzerland are explored in texts and exercises, and the lives and influence of famous German speakers, including the Grimm Brothers and the first Nobel peace prize winner Bertha Suttner are examined.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the perfect tense with haben and sein. With sein pupils know change of state verbs.
- Pupils know how to form plural nouns.
- Pupils know and can use irregular nationality nouncs, for example Deutsche.
- Pupils know and can use the perfect tense and the simple past (sein, haben, es gab) with adverbs, for example gern, lieber.
- Pupils know comparative adverbs.
- Pupils know and can use subject relative clauses
Popular culture: Kulturszene
This unit revisits previously taught grammar with practice of the perfect tense (haben and sein) and simple past with früher, gern and lieber. Comparative adverb structures are consolidated along with plural nouns and irregular nationality nouns. 'wo' and 'was' in relative clauses are revisited.
6 lessons in unit
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