KS4 · German · Year 10
Therapiehunde: nouns and adjectives with prepositions
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Your learning goal
I can use nouns and adjectives with prepositions to describe my interest and emotions in the context of therapy dogs in school.
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I can use nouns and adjectives with prepositions to describe my interest and emotions in the context of therapy dogs in school.
Key learning points
- [qu] sounds like in 'bequem'.
- [w] sounds like in 'Antwort'.
- The letter combination 'kw' in German sounds like [qu], but only occurs in compound nouns, e.g., 'Trinkwasser'.
- Certain nouns are always followed by particular prepositions and cases.
- Certain adjectives are always followed by particular prepositions and cases.
Words to know
- preposition
- a word that is used before a noun, a noun phrase or a pronoun, connecting it to another word
- [qu]
- pronounced as in 'bequem'
- [w]
- pronounced as in 'Antwort'
Common mistakes
[qu] sounds the same in English and German.
In German, the SSC [qu] is pronounced 'k' then 'w' (which in German is like the English 'v' sound). Avoid confusion with English - for example, 'Qualität' vs 'quality'. In German, 'kw' appears only in complound words, e.g., 'Trinkwasser'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Give students plenty of pronunciation and read aloud practice with [qu] words, to ensure accurate German pronunciation, and highlight the different stress patterns between English and German: the stress is on the first syllable in English and on the last in German ('consequence' vs 'Konsequenz').