KS3 · German · Year 8
Compare school experiences: possessive adjectives 'unser' and 'ihr'
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Your learning goal
I can use possessive adjectives 'unser' and 'ihr' to describe school experiences for different people.
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Compare school experiences: possessive adjectives 'unser' and 'ihr': slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
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I can use possessive adjectives 'unser' and 'ihr' to describe school experiences for different people.
Key learning points
- [er] is usually stressed when it's part of the first syllable of a word or a single syllable word e.g. Herz, er, lernen.
- [er] is most often unstressed when it is is at the end of a word e.g. Bruder.
- Adding the suffix -heit to certain (though not all) adjectives creates nouns, usually meaning adjective + -ity or -ness.
- 'Unser' and 'ihr' are possessive adjectives; 'unser' means 'our' and 'ihr' means 'their'.
- Possessive adjectives 'unser' and 'ihr' change their spelling to agree with gender of the noun and the case.
Words to know
- suffix
- a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or how it is used, e.g. '-heit'
- possessive adjective
- word that goes before a noun to show ownership or belonging
Common mistakes
There is only one word in German for 'our' and 'their', just like in English.
Possessive adjectives like 'unser' and 'ihr' change the spelling according to the gender of the noun and the case that is needed e.g. 'unser Hund', 'unsere Katze'; 'ihr Vater', 'ihre Mutter'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Speaking Task D3 requires students to work in pairs. For each stage (there are two to allow both partners to do both roles), one student needs to be facing away from the board before showing the task slide.