Guten Tag.
The session started with a revision for the test from Chapter 1 to 6. Model of the question paper were discussed. Some of the questions are as follows:
Q. Welche Sprachen sprechen Sie?
A: Ich spreche Tamil, Englisch …….
Translation:
Q. Which languages do you speak
A. I speak Tamil, English …………………
Similarly,
Q. Welche Sprache spricht man in
Frankreisch? (A: Franzosisch)
Spanien? (A: Spanisch)
Osterreich? (A: Deutsch)
Deutschland? (A: Deutsch)
Italien? (A: Italienisch)
Translation:
Q: Which language do one speak in
Here “man” refers to one - meaning people of
While writing numbers for example
101 should be written as einhundreteins
723 as siebenhundretdreiundzwanzig without any space.
The test was completed within a hour.
The homework of Chapter 7 were discussed
Chapter 8 and 9 was taught and completed.
Hausaufgabe:
Chapter 8: U1, U4, U8, U12, U13.
Chapter 9: U3, U4, U7, U9, U11, U12, U13, U15, U16.
Chapter 8:
Ubung 2: We listened to the szene and marked who said whether Paula, Ayhan or Werbespot.
New words: Werbung = advertising
Werbespot = advertisement.
Ubung 3: we listened to the szene and marked what Paula said.
Ubung 5: we learned the verbform in the past tense.
“ist” refers to gegenwart (present tense) (is) it changes to
“war” refers to vergangenheit (past tense) (was).
For example:
Paula, wie war es in Neuschwanstein?
Paula how was in Neuschwanstein? Here “was” refers to “war”.
Ubung 6:
New words: Gegensatz = opposite statement
Aber = but.
The word “but” is “aber” - for example:
- Paula ist in Neuschwanstein aber Ayhan ist in
Paula is in Neuschwanstein but Ayhan is in
Some of the Gegenteil (opposite) words are as follows:
In German in English
Weg sein X da sein not to be there X to be
Klar sein X mysterios sein clear X mysterious
Leben X tot sein live/living X dead
Stimmt X stimmt nicht right X not right
Unten X oben below/under X above/up.
Ubung 7: we matched the opposite statements.
Ubung 9: Mam taught us about the article der, die, and das in Nominativ and Akkusativ sentences. It is very important for us to learn the nouns with article.
For example:
1. Der Mann ist gut. – Nominativ
- Ich sehe den Mann. - Akkusativ
In the 1st sentence Der Mann is the subject but in the 2nd sentence subject becomes an object and article ‘der’ changes to ‘den’.
But for the article “die” and “das” they remain the same in both the sentences.
For example:
Die Frau ist jung. - Nominativ
Ich liebe die Frau - Akkusativ.
Das Buch heisst “Radio D”.
Ich sehe das Buch Radio D.
Ubung 10: we listened to the szene and filled in the blanks.
Ubung 11: we made sentences with the hints given making a Nominative and an akkusative sentences:
New Words:
Kennen = to know about a place, person in particular.
Wissen = to know information.
Sehen = to see / to view
Schauen = to see / to view.
Chapter 9:
Ubung 1: we listened to the szene and marked the statement to which szene they belong to.
New words:
Stau = traffic jam. (der Stau)
Ubung 2: we filled in the blanks i.e words for the pictures given.
Picture 1. Radio D 2. Telefon 3. Konig Ludwig 4. Stau.
Ubung 5: we match the colums to make a meaningful sentence:
- Was war in Neuschwanstein?
- Ich verstehe uberhaupt nichts.
- Bitte geh ans Telefon.
- Das mache ich sofort.
New words:
Verstehe = to understand
Uberhaupt = absolutely
Nichts = nothing.
($ nicht is different from nichts. For example: Ich verstehe uberhaupt nichts means I cannot understand anything or absolutely nothing.
But nicht means “no”).
Ubung 6: we marked which clue matches the sentences.
Ubung 8: we made sentences with the given hints and read them.
New words:
Interessant = interesting
Blod = stupidity
Wunderbar = wonderful
Amusant = amusing
Ubung 10: We listened and enjoyed a rap song named “nichts – Rap”.
Ubung 14: We made question and answers with the help of the words given in the text.
New words:
Fragen = question
Antwort = answer.
(Mam gave us sweets as promised.)
Thank you and happy week ahead.
Sumitha Selvakumar.
