KS3 · German · Year 9
Storytelling: pronouns 'du', 'ihr', 'Sie', object word order
Modern lives and tall tales: present tense
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Your learning goal
I can understand and correctly use the different forms of 'you' in German and use verbs with direct and indirect objects in the context of a modern fairy tale.
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I can understand and correctly use the different forms of 'you' in German and use verbs with direct and indirect objects in the context of a modern fairy tale.
Key learning points
- To say 'you' in German, use 'du' (singular) or 'Sie' (formal) or 'ihr' (plural informal) or 'man' (you, one or people).
- In a sentence with two object nouns, the indirect object (dative) always comes first.
- Identify the indirect object in a sentence by asking 'to/for whom'?' something is done and looking for dative articles.
Words to know
- ihr
- pronoun meaning you (all), used for more than one person that you address by their first name
- indirect object
- the person, people or thing(s) that the verb action is done to or for, taking the dative case in German
Common mistakes
'You’ in German is just one word.
German has four different words for 'you', depending on who you're talking to: 'du' – informal, singular; 'ihr' - informal, plural; 'Sie' - formal, singular; 'man' - people in general, one.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Teachers might choose to extend the theme of this lesson, setting pupils the task of writing a short fairy tale; pupils could choose to write a completely original story or take a well-known fairy tale and change some detail, including the ending.