Banff Academy - Mrs Main's Classes

Drogen/Drugs

Click here to download the vocab for the section on drugs we did last week.

S4 - Today's vocab (28/08/08)

Im Second-Hand-Laden            At the second-hand shop

Hallo, kann ich dir helfen?          Hello, can I help you?
Ja, kann ich bitte diese             Yes, can I try on these
   (Jacken) anprobieren?               (jackets) please?
Röcke                                       skirts
Hosen                                       trousers
Jacken                                      jackets
T-shirts                                    T-shirts
Ja, natürlich.                            Yes, of course.
Die Kabine ist dort drüben.        The changing room is over there.
Na (welches T-shirt) passt          Now (which T-shirt) fits
    dir am besten?                          you best?
welcher Rock                             which skirt
welche Hose                              which trousers
welches T-shirt                          which T-shirt
Das (grüne T-shirt) ist               The (green T-shirt) is
    (genau richtig).                           (just right).
der blaue Rock                          the blue skirt
die karierte Hose                      the checked trousers
das rote T-shirt                         the red T-shirt
genau richtig                             just right
zu groß                                     too big
zu klein                                     too small
zu lang                                      too long
zu kurz                                      too short
O.K., die Schuhe kosten             OK, the shoes cost
    (vierzig) Euro, bitte.                    (forty) Euros, please.
Ach, das ist sehr preiswert.       Oh, that is very good value.
Vielen Dank.                             Thanks a lot.

Lots of good vocabulary there!

Advanced Higher - reading materials

Here's a good website to get you reading some 'authentic' German...

Nachrichten für Kinder

Just to remind you that we'll start studying Bahnwärter Thiel next week, so please finish reading it.

2P4 - 26/08/08

Today in class, we worked firstly on numbers up to 100 so that we could say our telephone numbers. We did a short listening exercise to do with this which you all managed to do really well. Well done!

New vocabulary from today:

Zimmer                         Rooms

der Garten                     garden
der Keller                       cellar
die Küche                       kitchen
die Toilette                    toilet
das Badezimmer             bathroom
das Esszimmer               dining room
das Schlafzimmer           bedroom
das Wohnzimmer            living room
das Zimmer                    room

Try to learn this vocabulary well as we will be using this vocabulary in the next few lessons.

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)

1P4 - 26th August

Well done to those of you who did well in your vocab check today - I was really pleased with you, particularly with those of you who got 9 or 10 of them correct! However, I was a little disappointed with some of you and the lack of effort that had been put into learning your vocab for today. It is vital that you learn your vocab as what we do now leads on to what we do tomorrow and what we do tomorrow leads on to what we do the next day etc etc.

On a more positive note, it is god to see that you are settling in well to Banff Academy and your behaviour has been very good. Let's keep it that way!

Well done!

Advanced Higher

Homework for Tuesday, 2nd September:

„Nichtraucher können oft nicht entscheiden ob sie passiv mitrauchen oder nicht.“ Was ist Ihrer Meinung nach einem Rauchverbot in öffentlichen Gebäuden?

Write 250-300 words

S4 - 25/08/08

Firstly, a reminder that I expect a first draft of your essay by tomorrow - 4(1) - or Thursday - 4(2).

Today, in class, we were looking at larger numbers and how to form them. The most important point for that was that you only put 'und' in between the tens and the units. e.g. tausendfünfhundertzweiundzwanzig.

hundert
zweihundert
dreihundert
vierhundert ...etc.

tausend
zweitausend
dreitausend
viertausend ...etc.

neunhundertneunundneunzig = 999

Can you work out what numbers these are?:
1) vierhundertzweiundachtzig
2) tausendneunhundertzwölf
3) siebenhunderteinundvierzig
4) zwölftausendelf
5) neunhundertneunundneunzigtausendneunhundertneunundneunzig (phew, that's a long word!)

Can you write the following numbers as words in German?
1) 163
2) 2834
3) 7568
4) 8220
5) 15634

*answers to follow in a few days*

2Q3 - 25/08/08

This morning, we were looking at prepositions (click on the link for more information about prepositions in English). We learned a chant with some actions to go along with the following prepositions in German:

an
auf
hinter
in
neben
über
unter
vor
zwischen

Hopefully the chant and actions we learned today will help you to remember these prepositions, as we will need to know them for our next few lessons (and, indeed, the rest of your "German-career"!). Can you remember what they mean?

Vocabulary from today:

Zimmer                         Rooms

der Garten                     garden
der Keller                       cellar
die Küche                       kitchen
die Toilette                    toilet
das Badezimmer             bathroom
das Esszimmer               dining room
das Schlafzimmer           bedroom
das Wohnzimmer            living room
das Zimmer                    room

*Remember that Badezimmer, Esszimmer, Schlafzimmer and Wohnzimmer are all 'das words' (neuter) because the word Zimmer is a 'das word'.

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