Frankfurter Buchmesse: uncountable quantifiers, abstract adjectival neuter nouns
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use 'viel' and 'wenig' with neuter adjectival nouns and complete a dictogloss task to reinforce my grammatical understanding.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- 'Viel' means ‘a lot’ or ‘much’. The opposite is 'wenig', which means ‘little’.
- Adjectival nouns, like adjectives, change according to gender, case and the article used with them.
- Following 'wenig' or 'viel', capitalise an adjective and add '-es' to turn it into a neuter adjectival noun.
- Use dictogloss tasks to reinforce your grammatical understanding in different contexts.
Keywords
Adjectival noun - a type of noun that takes the same endings as adjectives
Viel - word meaning 'a lot', 'much', sometimes followed by a neuter adjectival noun
Wenig - word meaning 'little', often followed by a neuter adjectival noun
Common misconception
Adjectives don’t have capital letters in German, so to say ‘the green ones’ in German, no capital letter is needed.
Whilst adjectives don't have capital letters, adjectival nouns always have capital letters; ‘die Grünen’ - 'the green ones'.
Teacher tip
Allow sufficient time between audio clips for students to complete Task A1. Task A3 could be adapted to be a written translation task, perhaps using mini-whiteboards.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.'Es regnet, __________ bleibe ich zu Hause.' Choose the correct missing word.
Q2.'Er gab __________ das Buch.' Choose the correct missing word.
Q3.Match the German and English.
close
tiring
mental, psychological
green
pure
safe, secure, certain, certainly
Q4.Match the German and English.
beginning
poet
landscape, countryside
chocolate
traffic
culture
Q5.Write in English: 'Es war sehr ruhig.'
Q6.Write in German: 'There is a lot to do.'
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Which phrase means 'the famous ones'?
Q2.Match the German and English.
lovely
the lovely thing
a lot of lovely things
not much that's lovely
Q3.Write in German: 'lots of poems'.
Q4.Write in German: 'We have little time.'
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