Greetings and location: 'wo' and singular definite articles
Learning outcomes
I can greet a teacher or friend, ask and answer about where someone is, and recognise the definite article 'the'.
I can recognise the short and long [a] sound.
Greetings and location: 'wo' and singular definite articles
Learning outcomes
I can greet a teacher or friend, ask and answer about where someone is, and recognise the definite article 'the'.
I can recognise the short and long [a] sound.
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Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- 'Hallo' is an informal greeting meaning 'hello' or 'hi' and 'Guten Tag' is a more formal version of 'hello'.
- 'Wo ist?' asks 'where is?' in simple location questions.
- [a] can be either short (followed by 2 consonants) or long (followed by a single consonant, double vowel or 'h').
- German has three words for 'the': der (masculine), die (feminine) and das (neuter).
- Every noun in German has a grammatical gender, which is not the same as biological gender.
Keywords
Wo - where
Ist - is
[a] - pronounced short [a] as in kalt and long [a] as in sagen
Definite article - different forms of the singular ‘the’: ‘der’, ‘die’, ‘das’
Common misconception
Grammatical gender is the same as biological gender. If a word is feminine we think of it as a girl if it is masculine we think of it as a boy.
Grammatical gender is not the same as biological gender.
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Starter quiz
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Exit quiz
6 Questions
masculine
feminine
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