Year 11 - German
Biodiversität: definite and indefinite articles after prepositions, da-compounds
Lifestyle and wellbeing: Meine Welt
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Unit Summary
This unit revisits a range of known grammar in the context of social and global inequalities. The future and conditional tenses are reactivated. 'Nach' and 'nachdem', 'vor' and 'bevor' are revisited. Word order 3 with conjunctions ob, sobald, solange, bis and damit are practised.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use articles after prepositions and da-compounds to understand and describe where people are and what they are doing in the context of biodiversity.
Key Notes
- The prepositions 'durch, für, gegen, um' are used with the accusative. 'Aus, bei, mit, nach, von, zu' use the dative.
- 'An, auf, in, über, unter, vor, hinter, neben, zwischen' use the accusative for movement or the dative for no movement.
- Knowing the prepositions and their cases ensures that the correct form of definite and indefinite articles is used.
- Use da-compounds for inanimate nouns already mentioned, including with verbs taking prepositions.
- Use accusative or dative pronouns for animate nouns.
Vocabulary To Learn
- definite article: word for 'the' which may change according to gender, number and case
- indefinite article: the words 'ein', 'eine', 'ein', meaning 'a/an', which may change according to gender, number and case
- preposition: a word that is used before a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun, connecting it to another word
- da-, dar-: prefix added to prepositions to avoid repetition of the noun
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- All prepositions are followed by only one case - for example, the accusative or the dative.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
The prepositions 'durch, für, gegen, um' are used with the accusative. 'Aus, bei, mit, nach, von, zu' use the dative. 'An, auf, in, über, unter, vor, hinter, neben, zwischen' use the accusative for movement or the dative for no movement.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'definite article'
word for 'the' which may change according to gender, number and case. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: All prepositions are followed by only one case - for example, the accusative or the dative. Correction: The prepositions 'an, 'auf', 'in', 'über', 'unter', 'vor', 'hinter', 'neben' and 'zwischen' are used with the accusative case when there is movement, but the dative case when there is no movement.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Armut in Deutschland: 'bis' as preposition, 'bis' and 'wenn' as conjunctions Study Guide
- Das Leben mit Behinderung: stem changes in present tense weak verbs Study Guide
- Die Umwelt: word order with questions, questions with wo-compounds Study Guide
- Diskriminerung im Alltag: 'damit' da-compound vs 'damit' conjunction Study Guide
- Du siehst nicht krank aus: word order in 2-verb structures with conjunctions Study Guide
- Energiekrise in Deutschland: future vs conditional, 2-verb rule Study Guide
- Gemeinsam statt einsam: prepositions vor, nach and conjunctions bevor, nachdem Study Guide
- Meine Welt - Platz für alle: extended listening and spoken production Study Guide
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