Banff Academy - Mrs Main's Classes

S3 homework

Your homework for Friday - 16/01/09 - is to write 10 sentences in German - each sentence must contain a modal verb.

e.g. Ihr müßt deine Hausaufgaben machen!

Here are the conjugations for the modal verbs müssen, dürfen and können:

 

                müssen               dürfen                 können

ich              muß                  darf                   kann

du               mußt                darfst                 kannst

er/sie/es     muß                  darf                   kann

wir             müssen             dürfen                können

ihr              müßt                 dürft                  könnt

sie/Sie      müssen               dürfen                können

 

Remember to put the infinitive at the end of your sentence. Ask for help if you get stuck!!

S3 - Describing physical appearance

Today, we were learning to describe physical appearance (ich habe or er/sie hat). If you did not get a note of the vocabulary, please catch up from here:

Aussehen                               Appearance

Ich habe braune Augen und                   I have brown eyes and

     kurze rote Haare.                                  short, red hair.

Ich habe grüne Augen und                     I have green eyes and

     blonde Haare.                                       blonde hair.

Ich habe blaue Augen und                     I have blue eyes and

     lange braune Haare.                              long, brown hair.

Ich habe braune Augen und                   I have brown eyes and

     kurze schwarze Haare.                          short, black hair.

Meine Augen sind blau.                         My eyes are blue.

Meine Haare sind braun.                       My hair is brown.

Ich habe einen Schnurrbart.                   I have a moustache.

Ich habe eine Glatze.                             I am bald.

Ich habe einen Bart.                              I have a beard.

Ich habe sehr lange Haare.                    I have very long hair.

Ich habe ziemlich kurze Haare.               I have quite short hair.

Sie hat lange blonde Haare und             She’s got blonde hair and

     blaue Augen.                                        blue eyes.

Mein Freund hat...                                My (male) friend has...

Meine Freundin hat...                            My (female) friend has...

Mein Bruder/Vater hat...                       My brother.father has...

Meine Schwester/Mutter hat...              My sister/mother has...

Peter/Paula hat...                                  Peter/Paul has...

S3 - Nominative and Accusative

Here's a simple flowchart to help you decide which case (and, therefore, which article) to use for nouns - click on the piture to see it full size:

Click here to download the picture which you can print off at home.

Hopefully this helps!

S3

Please look over your vocabulary to do with sports and hobbies as we will be adding a little bit to your essays about what you like to do in your spare time.

Was machst du in deiner Freizeit?
Ich...
...spiele gern Fußball.
...fahre gern Rad.
...mag Tennis spielen.

(for example)

22/08/08 - S3 - Nationalities

Today in class we worked on some vocabulary to do with nationalities. We used the following vocabulary:

Nationalitäten                                   Nationalities

Welche Nationalität hat (Jan)?             What nationality is (Jan)?

Er ist …                                              He is ...

Sie ist ...                                           She is ...

England

M – Engländer                                     

F – Engländerin                                    English

Italien

M – Italiener

F – Italienerin                                      Italian

Spanien

M – Spanier

F – Spanierin                                       Spanish

Österreich

M – Österreicher

F – Österreicherin                                Austrian

Frankreich

M – Franzose

F – Französin                                       French

Deutschland

M – Deustscher

F – Deutsche                                        German

Irland

M – Ire

F – Irin                                                Irish

Schottland

M – Schotte

F – Schottin                                         Scottish

Wales

M – Waliser

F – Waliserin                                       Welsh

If you did not finish copying the vocab, please take it from here.

We pointed out the differences between the male and the female words for nationalities, and I also pointed out that these differences can be seen in other areas, for example job titles: e.g. Lehrer (male teacher) and Lehrerin (female teacher). Most often, the female word ends in "-in".

At the end of the period, we did an exercise to 'test' your general knowledge!!! How many of the nationalities of the following people did you get right?

Mozart war Österreicher.
Elizabeth 1. war Engländerin.
Napoleon war Franzose.
Goethe war Deutscher.
Florence Nightingale war Engländerin.
Marie Antoinette war Französin.
Robert Burns war Schotte.
Salvador Dali war Spanier.

Well done if you managed to get all 8 correct! I asked you, for Monday, to try and find out a little bit about who these people were. It's not formal homework, but I'd like you to have a look and see what you can find out about them. I'd suggest that a good place to start would be Wikipedia.

Enjoy!
Mrs Main

Welcome to new S1 and welcome back to everyone else!

Well, as the title says, welcome back for the new session! I bet you're all thrilled to be back! Welcome to the new S1 - it was nice to meet you yesterday. We've a busy year ahead of us - particularly the new S4 and S6 - so I'm expecting lots of effort and hard work from you, so that we can enjoy the year.

See you tomorrow (yes, some of us had to come in to school today...)

Mrs Main =]

Freizeit essays

New S4 - 4(1)

Here are some of your Freizeit essays - they're really good. Let's get some more on here!

1. Download freizeit_emily.doc
2. Download freizeit_jill.doc
3. Download freizeit_lois.doc

Now all you need to do is learn them up to do under exam conditions! :)

New website address!

Hi everyone,

I was told about a good way of making the website address smaller, so maybe less of you will have difficulty getting on here! http://tinyurl.com/3rw9ho is all you have to type to get on here now!

Mrs Main

Going to the doctors

Hello third year,

been working on your recordings about going to the doctors, but unfortunately there only seems to be 2 which we can post up here so far. Maybe we can record some more when you get back. For your entertainment, here are the two that I have....

Download andrew_and_luke.mp3
Download laura_and_jill.mp3

Well done with these, they're really good.

See you on Tuesday!

Schöne Ferien!

Hope you all have a really good holiday!See you in August. =]