Year 10 - German
Badeschiff Berlin: possessive adjectives, modal verbs, 2-verb structures
Travel and tourism: Reiseziele
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Unit Summary
This consolidation unit revisits all of the grammar covered in previous units in the context of travel destinations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Pupils learn to use 'man' in order to avoid the passive, and also learn 'sein' and 'ihr' in nominative, accusative and dative to mean 'its'.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use the correct possessive pronoun to translate 'its' and apply your knowledge of present tense modal verbs and the two-verb rule in speaking and writing about a trip.
Key Notes
- There are 16 Bundesländer (states) in Germany, 9 in Austria and 26 Kantone (states) in Switzerland.
- Possessive adjectives are used with nouns to show ownership or belonging. They must agree with the noun which follows.
- To translate 'its', use 'sein' with masculine or neuter nouns, and 'ihr' with feminine nouns.
- Modal verbs express ideas of necessity or possibility. Use them with a 2nd verb in the infinitive at the sentence's end.
- Apply the two-verb rule if there are two verbs in a sentence. The second verb goes to the end.
Vocabulary To Learn
- possessive adjective: a word that goes before a noun to show ownership or belonging and matches the noun in gender, case and number
- sein: possessive adjective meaning 'his' or 'its'
- ihr: possessive adjective meaning 'her', 'their' or 'its'
- modal verb: verb of necessity or possibility (must, can, want) used with a 2nd verb in the infinitive, which goes to the end of the sentence
- two-verb rule: position of the 2nd verb at the end of two-verb sentences
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- A possessive adjective must match whoever possesses the noun in gender, number and case.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
There are 16 Bundesländer (states) in Germany, 9 in Austria and 26 Kantone (states) in Switzerland. Possessive adjectives are used with nouns to show ownership or belonging. They must agree with the noun which follows.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'possessive adjective'
a word that goes before a noun to show ownership or belonging and matches the noun in gender, case and number. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: A possessive adjective must match whoever possesses the noun in gender, number and case. Correction: A possessive adjective matches the gender, number and case of the noun it describes, not the person possessing it, e.g., 'his school' - 'seine Schule'. The possessor is male but the noun they possess is feminine.
More Lessons In This Unit
- 16 Bundesländer: numbers, articles following 'in', 'zu', 'nach' Study Guide
- Berlin: 'wissen' vs 'kennen' Study Guide
- Bern: 'es gibt' vs 'da sind', determiners and prepositions Study Guide
- Das Ruhrgebiet: perfect tense irregular verbs, imperfect tense, 'früher' Study Guide
- Die Sächsische Schweiz: 'man' + verb, 'Lieblings-' and 'Haupt-' Study Guide
- Die Wuppertaler Schwebebahn: past tense, past participles, time-manner-place Study Guide
- Düsseldorf: past participles of strong and irregular verbs, questions Study Guide
- Eine Reise: present tense, separable verbs, possessive adjectives Study Guide
- Frankfurter Buchmesse: uncountable quantifiers, abstract adjectival neuter nouns Study Guide
- Graz: word order rules, possessive adjectives Study Guide
- Reisen: extending vocabulary Study Guide
- Romantische Straße: future tense, present tense with adverbs to express future Study Guide
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