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Greetings and locating things: capital letters on German nouns

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I can capitalise and apply grammatical gender to nouns and ask and answer where something is.

I can pronounce short and long [a] sound correctly.

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Greetings and locating things: capital letters on German nouns

Learning outcomes

I can capitalise and apply grammatical gender to nouns and ask and answer where something is.

I can pronounce short and long [a] sound correctly.

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Key learning points

  1. [a] can be short or long, but an 'e' at the end of a word is always very short, for example 'danke'.
  2. All German nouns start with a capital letter.
  3. German has three words for 'the': der (masculine), die (feminine) and das (neuter).
  4. Wo ist ..?', meaning 'Where is ... ?' is followed by the definite article and noun for simple location questions.
  5. Simple location questions can be answered using 'ist' (is) and 'hier' (here) or 'da' (there).

Keywords

  • [a] - pronounced [a] as in 'kalt' and [a] as in 'sagen'

  • Noun - a word for a person, place, or thing

  • Der, die, das - words for 'the'

  • Wo ist? - where is?

Common misconception

Only proper nouns have a capital letter.

In German, all nouns, regardless of where they are in a sentence, have a capital letter.

Cycle 3 slides 27-30: Say the gender of either one and students respond by either turning their heads to the left or right or pointing at the correct picture. This can be framed as the partially completed question 'Wo ist der/die/das?'.
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6 Questions

Q1.
Match the gender definitions.
Correct Answer:Grammatical gender,Way to categorise all nouns as either feminine, masculine or neuter
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Way to categorise all nouns as either feminine, masculine or neuter

Correct Answer:Biological gender,Refers to physical gender e.g. male, female
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Refers to physical gender e.g. male, female

Q2.
Identify the nouns.
go
Correct answer: cat
eat
Correct answer: London
Correct answer: day
Q3.
Which words mean 'the' in German?
Correct answer: der
da
Correct answer: die
Correct answer: das
Q4.
Translate 'Mia ist hier' into English.
Correct Answer: Mia is here.
Q5.
Match up the German with the English.
Correct Answer:das Fenster,(the) window
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(the) window

Correct Answer:der Tisch,(the) table
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(the) table

Correct Answer:die Flasche,(the) bottle
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(the) bottle

Q6.
Translate 'wo ist' into English.
Correct Answer: Where is?, Where is

6 Questions

Q1.
Which word has a short [a] sound?
fahren
sagen
Correct answer: Klasse
Q2.
Which two words have a long [a] sound?
Gast
Correct answer: Paar
Correct answer: Tag
Flasche
kalt
Q3.
What does every noun in German need?
Correct Answer: A capital letter, capital letter, capital
Q4.
Put this sentence in the correct order.
1 - Der
2 - Tisch
3 - ist
4 - da
Q5.
Translate this sentence into English: Wo ist das Fenster?
Correct Answer: Where is the window?
Q6.
Translate this sentence into German: The class is here.
Correct Answer: Die Klasse ist hier.

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