KS4 · German · Year 10
Frankfurter Buchmesse: uncountable quantifiers, abstract adjectival neuter nouns
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Your learning goal
I can use 'viel' and 'wenig' with neuter adjectival nouns and complete a dictogloss task to reinforce my grammatical understanding.
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Frankfurter Buchmesse: uncountable quantifiers, abstract adjectival neuter nouns: 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 'viel' and 'wenig' with neuter adjectival nouns and complete a dictogloss task to reinforce my grammatical understanding.
Key learning points
- 'Viel' means ‘a lot’ or ‘much’. The opposite is 'wenig', which means ‘little’.
- Adjectival nouns, like adjectives, change according to gender, case and the article used with them.
- Following 'wenig' or 'viel', capitalise an adjective and add '-es' to turn it into a neuter adjectival noun.
- Use dictogloss tasks to reinforce your grammatical understanding in different contexts.
Words to know
- adjectival noun
- a type of noun that takes the same endings as adjectives
- viel
- word meaning 'a lot', 'much', sometimes followed by a neuter adjectival noun
- wenig
- word meaning 'little', often followed by a neuter adjectival noun
Common mistakes
Adjectives don’t have capital letters in German, so to say ‘the green ones’ in German, no capital letter is needed.
Whilst adjectives don't have capital letters, adjectival nouns always have capital letters; ‘die Grünen’ - 'the green ones'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Allow sufficient time between audio clips for students to complete Task A1. Task A3 could be adapted to be a written translation task, perhaps using mini-whiteboards.