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Einheit Zwei - die zweite Einheit
Topics/Texts Communication Grammar Learning Skills Getting info about people
A quiz: wer ist das?
Names of countries
A song
EmailWo wohnst du?
Woher kommst du?
Was mag sie?
Wie alt bist du?Verbs in the singular: ich lerne / du lernst
Interrogatives: wie/wo/woher/was?
Pronunciation: word accent, sentence rhythmPutting info into tables
Marking verbs
Reading strategy with questions
Learning Poster: pronunciationREGULAR VERB PATTERN
Most verbs follow this pattern of endings: geh-en (go), mach-en (do, make), wohn-en, etc.
SPIELEN ich spiel-e
du spiel-st
er/sie/es spiel-twir spiel-en
ihr spiel-t
sie spiel-enSie spiel-en -
NEW PRONOUNS
- ich = I
- du = you (one family or friend)
- Sie = you (formal - someone you'd say Mr. or Mrs. to, strangers, adults who are not close or family friends)
- sie = she (not capitalized unless first word in a sentence)
- er = he
Personal pronouns and adjectives are a fruitful nuisance in this language, and should have been left out. For instance, the same sound, sie, means you, and it means she, and it means her, and it means it, and it means they, and it means them. Think of the ragged poverty of a language which has to make one word do the work of six -- and a poor little weak thing of only three letters at that. But mainly, think of the exasperation of never knowing which of these meanings the speaker is trying to convey. This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger. ----Mark Twain on The Awful German Language
sein = to be
ich bin
du bist
er/sie/es istwir sind
ihr seid
sie sindSie sind
KENNEN = familiarity, acquaintance (people, places, things). KENNEN is regular like SPIELEN.kennen ich kenne wir kennen du kennst ihr kennt er
sie kennt
es
sie kennen
Sie kennen
sein = to be
ich bin
du bist
er/sie/es istwir sind
ihr seid
sie sindSie sind
.ich habe wir haben - I have We have du hast ihr habt - You have Y'all have er
sie hat
es
sie haben
- He
She has
ItThey have Sie haben - You have (formal)
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