Topic Five (1.5): Wer war das?
Objectives for this topic
- Learning numbers 31-1000
- Identifying personal pronouns
- Exam strategy: using cognates to work out meaning
Introduction
In this topic, you will learn how to count all the way up to 1000. You will also discover the personal pronouns in German and how to use them. You will start to develop exam skills, such as working out the meaning of new words by looking for similarities with English words.
Working through your coursebook
Please work through the following sections in your coursebook, completing all listed exercises:
- Complete exercise 1 on page 18: read the German sentences on the left (1-4) and match them to the English sentences on the right (a-d).
- Complete exercise 2 on page 18: put the numbers in the correct order and say them aloud.
Extra: try counting in tens to 100 and then in hundreds to 1000 from memory, to see if you can remember all the numbers
- Complete exercise 3 on page 18: listen to the audio and check that everything is correct.
LISTEN – Audio Exercise 3 Links to an external site.
- Complete exercise 4 on page 18: match up the numbers with the German words
Extra: to challenge yourself further, how about writing up some really tricky numbers?
- Complete exercise 5 on page 19: listen to the audio as you read the texts. Choose the correct date for each gap (a-d).
LISTEN – Audio Exercise 5 Links to an external site.
- Complete exercise 6 on page 19: write out the sentences from exercise 1 in the ‘er’ form. Be sure to check the verb ending is corresponding with the pronoun you use (e.g. ‘er heißt’)
- Complete exercise 7 on page 19: choose one of the people listed and write out their details using the correct personal pronoun (er/sie).
Review
Look up a famous person from Germany, Austria or Switzerland and write a short account about them in German, following the examples from exercise 5 on page 19.
Extra: Why not design a poster about them? For example, you could add a photo or a picture.
Interactive Kerboodle activities
Log into Kerboodle and complete the following activities for this module:
- Complete this exercise to practise the personal pronouns
PRACTISE – Identifying Personal Pronouns (Kerboodle) Links to an external site.
- Complete this reading and translation worksheet
PRACTISE – Reading and Translation Worksheet (Kerboodle) Links to an external site.
- Complete this strategy worksheet
PRACTISE – Using Cognates to Work Out Meaning (Kerboodle) Links to an external site.
Interactive LanguageNut activities
Log into Language Nut and try the following:
- Vocab trainer – basics – numbers 40-100
Support and extension exercises for this topic
- For extra grammar practice, practise the forms of sein on this website. You don’t need to create an account for this.
PRACTISE – Personal Pronouns (grammar.net) Links to an external site.
Check your answers
If you would like to check your answers for this topic, you can do so by consulting the Echt module answers for Topic 1.5
CHECK – Answers 1.5 Download CHECK – Answers 1.5
CHECK – Worksheet Answers 1.5 Download CHECK – Worksheet Answers 1.5
CHECK – Audio Transcripts Links to an external site.
Grammar Alert
- Find out about personal pronouns in German by studying the ‘Grammatik’ box on page 19.
Vocabulary
Study the vocabulary section ‘Wer war das?’ on page 29 of your textbook.