Drei starke Frauen: subject pronouns, relative clauses, historic present
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can understand relative clauses and the historic present in an extended text.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Relative clauses add information about the noun in a main clause, without starting another sentence.
- Some relative clauses are embedded in a main clause.
- Match subject pronouns 'er', 'sie', 'es', 'sie' with the gender and number of a noun to mean 'it' and 'they'.
- The historic present narrates events in the past to make them feel more immediate.
Keywords
Subject pronoun - represents the person, people or thing(s) doing the verb, e.g., 'I', 'we', 'they'
Relative clause - adds information about the noun in the main clause
Historic present - narrates events in the past using the present tense
Common misconception
Like English, German uses 'it' and 'they' as subject pronouns to replace nouns.
In German, subject pronouns 'er', 'sie', 'es', 'sie' mean 'it' and 'they' and match the grammatical gender and number of the noun.
Teacher tip
If time allows, a wider discussion of women and their role in science would be stimulating and enriching. Starter quiz question 2 contains only higher vocabulary.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the German words below to the correct English translations.
double, twice
to sit down, sitting down
Cologne
sausage
voice, vote
Q2.Match the German words below to the correct English translations.
to separate, separating
to originate, to develop
minority
pressure, printing
people, folk
Q3.Which sentence uses word order three (verb to the end)?
Q4.Sort the words below into the correct order to translate the following sentence into German: 'Here is a people that works hard.'
Q5.What does 'sie' mean in the following sentence? 'Ich mag die Donau. Sie ist schön.'
Q6.Sort the words below into the correct order to combine the following two sentences using a relative clause: 'Hier ist eine Gruppe.' 'Die Gruppe ist riesig.'
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the German words below to the correct English translations.
group
automatic, automatically
positive, positively
to sense, notice, feel
human
sacrifice, victim
Q2.How would you say 'it' in the following sentence? 'Das ist eine spezielle Möglichkeit. __________ ist positiv.'
Q3.Sort the words below into the correct order to translate the following sentence into German: 'Someone who has a lot of strength is this woman.'
Q4.Which sentence ending is correct? 'Ich setze mich auf den Stuhl und __________.'
Q5.Which tense does the following sentence use? '1900 bekommt die Frau gute Ergebnisse.'
Q6.How would we most likely say '1900 bekommt die Frau gute Ergebnisse.' in English?
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