What day is it today? What day comes next? You already know the answers in English, and probably in Irish too. Today we learn all seven days of the week in German, in order, so you can name any day of the school week, just as a class in Germany does on their wall planner.

Here is how a class in Hamburg labels their week on the wall planner. You will meet the seven days in two short chunks. For each card: hear the German and see it first, then say it with the class. Listen for the strong tahk ending on most days. Mittwoch is the odd one out: no tahk ending; it is MIT-vokh, like a soft clearing of the throat at the end. Have fun with it. Every German day starts with a capital letter.

A few of you will come up and click a word, then its meaning, on the board. Everyone else has a job: whisper the German day every time a volunteer picks one, and when a pair is found, say the German together with the class and listen to the audio.

Then you will see a simple German school timetable (Stundenplan) on the board. Your table says the full week Monday to Sunday in turn, and then you answer in German: which day is Sport? Which day is Musik?