Transcript Slide 1

Starter
 Schreib
diese Wörter in alphabetischer
Reihenfolge auf:
Berlin, groß, bringen, gehen, Buch, Biologie,
alt, essen, Eis, Meerschweinchen,
machen.
 Write
“V” next to the verbs
 Write “N” next to the nouns
 Write “A” next to the adjectives
Antwort:
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alt (A)
Berlin (N)
 Biologie (N)
 bringen (V)
 Buch (N)
 Eis (N)
 essen (V)
 gehen (V)
 groß (A)
 machen (V)
 Meerschweinchen (N)
 For
your GCSE assessments it is essential
to be able to use a dictionary well by:...knowing the different types of words which
make up sentences (verb/ noun/ adjective)
...having the skill to identify/select the correct
word(s) from a dictionary
....using the grammatical information in
dictionaries successfully to your advantage
Nouns in a Dictionary
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When you need to find the German for an
English word, you fist need to decide whether
you are looking for a noun, verb or adjective
Which word is the noun out of the following:
Buy
Run
Remember, a noun is the
Happy
name of something!
Onion
Fat ?
What’s in a name?
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look up “onion” to see what it is in
German.
 You should find something like this:
 Onion
[‘ʌn yən] n Zwiebel f
Onion [‘ʌn yən] n Zwiebel f
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Onion – the words in bold are the words you
want to translate
[‘ʌn yən] this tells you how to pronounce the
word in bold type.
n – this is telling you that the word which follows
is a noun.
Zwiebel – this is the German noun which means
“onion”
f – This tells you that “Zwiebel” is a feminine
noun.
Onion [‘ʌn yən] n Zwiebel f
 How
do you say in German:
 An onion
 The onion
 A shirt
 The shirt
 A head
 The head
But I want two!
 If
you want to find the correct way to write
the plural of a German noun, you first
need to be able to find it in the GERMAN
side of the dictionay
 Look
up “Zwiebel”
Zwiebel [‘tsvi:bəl] (-,-n) f onion
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We know what Zwiebel is.
We know what [‘tsvi:bəl] is
(-,-n)?
The brackets are basically saying “I contain your instructions
for forming a plural”
-, -n : the fist dash represents the vowels in the word and
shows that they don’t change
The second dash followed by an “n” represents the changes
we make to the end of the word.
So onions =
Zwiebeln
What might ( -¨,-n) mean?
Or ( -¨,- )?
Find the German for:
 Dogs
 Cats
 Girls
 Mothers
 Brothers
adj
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Find the following
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To play
A play
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To fly
A fly
Happy
Sad
What does “adj” indicate
What do “vt” and “vi” indicate
vi
vt
The essentials
1. Use your common sense – if a word ‘feels’ wrong, it possibly is. If in
doubt, look the word up in the opposite section of the dictionary.
2. Read carefully the information from the dictionary about the type of
word it is. (Particularly important if you are looking up a word which
could be used in two ways).
3. If a word has two or more unrelated meanings (e.g. Bat), the
dictionary will generally have two separate entries for it.
4. Always read the examples given under the entry – you may find
something useful.
5. If in doubt about plurals, the German/French/Spanish – English
section of the dictionary (front section generally) will give this
information so find your word there.
6. Remember that most of the time, you will not be able to use the
F/G/S verb as it is in the dictionary – it will need conjugating
BAD DICTIONARY SKILLS (A GERMAN EXAMPLE)
Fred wanted to write in his coursework, “Overall, it was a good film”. He
found the word “Arbeitshose” (which means ‘overalls’ – clothes to wear for
work). This could’ve been avoided by:-Fred looking at the word carefully realising that Arbeit means “work” and
Hose meaning “trousers” – or suspecting that it might mean “overall” and
double checking in the other section of the dictionary
- he could’ve looked for a second time and realised that he was looking at
“overalls” not “overall”.
- he should have realised that he wanted an adverb for his sentence not a
noun.
Use your dictionary to find the
word for:
 to
help
 help (support)
 match (to light a fire)
 match (football/tennis)
 bat (cricket/rounders)
 to fly
 to book (holiday)