1 - A Fruit You Already Know ~5 mins
Which fruit word do you already know in German? Someone in this room will know at least one. Shout it out if you dare!
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Name eight fruits in German with der or die
- Sort fruit words into gender groups
- Spot whether gender has a pattern you can hear
2 - Eight German Fruits ~10 mins
Here are today's eight fruits, in two waves.
Wave 1: listen to each fruit as it is tapped on screen, then say the whole pair out loud together (der or die plus the fruit). The list stays up in front of you.
Wave 2: four more fruits, the same way. Then you say wave 1 once more, so both waves stay warm in your mouth.
Learn each fruit as a pair with its article.
3 - Label the Wochenmarkt Stall ~9 mins
Watch the stall on the board. When your table is called, one pupil comes up and places one fruit label. Everyone else points at the fruit and whispers the full pair (article plus fruit) as each label lands.
4 - Into Your Copy ~3 mins
Open your copy and write today's eight fruits, each with der or die in front. Put a star beside any whose article surprised you. Take care with capital letters.
5 - Sort by Gender ~9 mins
Two fruits go into the columns together first, so you can see how the sorting works. After that, every fruit is your call: hold up one finger for der or two fingers for die (or point to the left or right column), and a volunteer moves the label to match. You have the list still on screen and the pairs you wrote in your copy, so use both.
Der means a masculine word and die means a feminine word. In German every noun has a gender we learn with it.
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