Imperatives

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Imperatives

• Formation
• Translating let us (do something)
• Infinitive for command (instructions)

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Decide which you is required

• There are three words for you depending on whom
  you are addressing and whether the situation is
  familiar or formal
• du ihr Sie

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Three words for you

• mnemonic (aid to memory)
• CAFF Child, Animal, Friend, Family
• One CAFF du
• Two or more CAFFs ihr
• Non-CAFF(s) Sie

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Three words for you

• Mein Kind, wohin gehst du?
• Kinder, wohin geht ihr?
• Herr Braun, wohin gehen Sie?
• Meine Herren, wohin gehen Sie?

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Which you?

• A group of children in the playground
• ihr
• A teacher in the staffroom
• Sie
• A child in the canteen
• du
• Two classroom assistants
• Sie

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Regular command endings

• Mach(e) - du
• Macht - ihr
• Machen Sie - Sie
• So only the du form is different from the
  present tense.

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With reflexive

• Setze dich
• Setzt euch
• Setzen Sie sich

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Note

• e ending of the 1 CAFF form is often dropped
  leaving the stem only
• mach schnell! get a move on!
• The words doch, mal, schon are often put with the
  imperative of the verb to lend further emphasis,
  although mal and schon have little or no effect
  on the sense

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• Mach doch schnell!
• Singen Sie doch!
• Seid doch nicht so blöde!
• Sag mal, was du da hast!
• Komm schon!

Do be quick Come on, sing Dont be silly Tell
me what youve got there Come on
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Irregular Command Forms

• There is only one verb which has more than one
  irregular command form sein
• Sei ruhig! 1 CAFF
• Seid ruhig! 2 or more CAFFs
• Seien Sie ruhig! Non CAFF(s)

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Other irregular command forms

• Only occur in the 1 CAFF form
• Gib
• Lies
• Nimm
• Sieh
• Sprich
• Vergiß

Give Read Take See Speak Forget
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Translating let us (do something)

• Turn round the wir-form of the present tense!
• Singen wir!
• Gehen wir!
• Essen wir!

Lets sing Lets go Lets eat
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Infinitive for command (instructions)

• The infinitive is often used for instructions in
  official notices, directions and recipes
• Aufpassen! Watch out
• Hunde an der Leine halten Keep dogs on a lead
• Nicht hinauslehnen Dont lean out
• Nicht rauchen Dont smoke

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Practise!

• Tell a pupil not to talk so loudly (nicht so laut
  sprechen)
• Tell the whole class not to talk so loudly
• Tell the headteacher not to talk so loudly!
• Invite your friend into your home (hereinkommen)
• Invite two friends into your home
• Invite a policeman in!

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Answers

• Sprich nicht so laut!
• Sprecht nicht so laut!
• Sprechen Sie nicht so laut!
• Komm herein!
• Kommt herein!
• Kommen Sie herein!

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• www.standards.dfes.gov.uk

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• MFL German at key stage 2
• Unit 2 Wir stellen uns vor Section 7 St
  Martins Day, Advent and Christmas

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• Tell the children how children in Germany
  celebrate St Martins Day. Tell them that they
  process around the streets with a lit candle in a
  lantern and sing a traditional song. Children
  could sing the song Ich gehe mit meiner Laterne,
  ich gehe mit meiner Laterne, und meine Laterne
  mit mir. Dort oben leuchten die Sterne, und unten
  leuchten wir. Mein Licht geht aus, ich geh nach
  Haus, rabimmel, rabammel, rabum. They could also
  listen to the story, and make their own lantern.
  If a photo of a childrens procession is
  available, share this with them.

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• With the children, listen to seasonal Christmas
  songs, eg Stille Nacht, Alle Jahre wieder, O
  Tannenbaum.
• Children sing one of the seasonal songs. While
  learning the words they could be introduced to
  the written lyrics.
• The children could design a seasonal card
  incorporating German phrases and vocabulary such
  as an, von. This will include the festival
  phrases Fröhliche Weihnachten! or Frohes Fest!
• The children could make a seasonal
  Lebkuchenhäuschen on a paper plate out of
  chocolate bars and biscuits, sprinkled with icing
  sugar.

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Points to note

• The teacher (or a native speaker known to the
  school) could share with the children their
  knowledge and personal experience of the seasonal
  activities in German-speaking countries. This
  will provide the class with an opportunity to ask
  questions.
• If the school has a link with a school in a
  German-speaking country, an exchange of
  information could take place, in which the
  customs and music of the seasons could be
  contrasted.
• The little seasonal gingerbread houses
  (Lebkuchenhäuschen) provide a link to food
  technology.
• The activities in this section can also be
  referred to when other festivals in the
  German-speaking parts of Europe, such as Karneval
  and Easter, are considered.

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Children

• consider their own culture and compare it with
  that of a German-speaking country
• use books or the (supervised) internet to find
  out further information about celebrations in a
  German-speaking country

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Traditional Song books

• Die große goldene Liederfibel
• Book ISBN 3-491-87028-3
• CD ISBN 3-491-88775-5
• Heribert and Johannes Grüger
• Die schönsten Kinderlieder
• ISBN 3-625-10596-9
• Ernst Klusen
• Das große Buch der schönsten Kinderlieder und
  Kinderreime
• ISBN 3-8112-0719-9
• Gondrom Verlag

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Traditional Story Books

• Mantra Lingua
• www.nead.org.uk
• Little Linguist
• www.little-linguist.co.uk