Objectives for this topic

Talking about what you eat and drink
Using the verbs essen and trinken

Introduction

In this topic, you will find out interesting cultural information about Germany. In terms of language, you will learn how to talk about food and drink.

Working through your coursebook

Please work through the following sections in your coursebook, completing all listed exercises:

Complete exercise 1 on page 96: decide which fruit or vegetable is in season in which month.
Extra: why not look up a few more fruits and vegetables and add to this list?

Complete exercise 2 on page 96: are the sentences describing picture a or picture b?
Complete exercise 3 on page 97: read the texts and complete the table in English.
Extra: why not translate the texts into English?

read the Kultur box on page 97 to find out what to say when having a meal in German.

Complete exercise 1 on page 98: match the words (1-16) with the pictures (a-p).
Compete exercise 2 on page 98: listen to the audio file. Then write what they eat and drink for breakfast.
LISTEN – Audio Exercise 2

Extra: rather than just writing the letters from exercise 1, why not write down the actual words?
Complete exercise 3 on page 98: write dialogues about what people eat for breakfast.
Complete exercise 4 on page 99: read the text and complete the table in English.
Complete exercise 7 on page 99: translate the article into English.

Review

Complete exercise 5 on page 99. Write from Ulli’s perspective. Aim for at least 50 words.
Extra: for extra exam practice, add more depth by including opinions and reasons.

Interactive Kerboodle activities

Log into Kerboodle and complete the following activities for this module:

Complete this grammar activity to practice using essen and trinken:

PRACTISE – Using essen and trinken (Kerboodle)

Complete this listening activity:

LISTEN – What you eat and drink (Kerboodle)

Complete this strategy activity to practise reusing language in new contexts:

COMPLETE – Using language in new contexts (Kerboodle)

Interactive LanguageNut activities

For a reminder of how to login in to Language Nut Secondary and access the activities see here.

You can find the activities for this topic in the 'Assignments' section. Scroll down to the bottom of the list of assignments where you will find the assignment labelled 'Year 8 German Module 1 Topic 1'.

You can also access these activities by following the following chain from the grey menu on the left-hand side of the screen:

Grammar and Verbs; verbs; essen

Support and extension exercises for this topic

Watch this video on YouTube to find out more about German food and drink:

WATCH – German Food (YouTube)

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 1.1.

CHECK – Answers 1.1

CHECK – Audio 1.1

Grammar Alert

Read the Grammatik box on page 98 to find out about using the verbs essen and trinken
Read the Strategie box on page 99 on reusing language in new contexts and take notes.
Read the Sprachmuster box on page 99 and take notes.

Vocabulary

• Study the vocabulary section, Frühstück – die wichtigste Mahlzeit!, on page 116.