Tage der Woche German Early Level Montag Dienstag Mittwoch Donnerstag Freitag Samstag Sonntag
Early Level Significant Aspects of Learning Explore and recognise patterns and sounds of the language. Listen and join in with simple songs and rhymes. Actively take part in simple daily routine language Participate in familiar games
Vocabulary Days of the week Aim to teach all 7 days before leading up to months and birthdays in 1st and 2nd level. Welcher Tag ist das? What day is it? Es ist It is Montag Monday Dienstag Tuesday Mittwoch Wednesday Donnerstag Thursday Freitag Friday Samstag Saturday Sonntag Sunday
Welcher Tag ist das? What day is it?
Es ist Montag MONTAG
Es ist Dienstag Dienstag
Es ist Mittwoch Mittwoch
Es ist Donnerstag Donnerstag
Es ist Freitag Freitag
Es ist Samstag Samstag
Es ist Sonntag Sonntag
Embedding the language Use the German day of the week classroom signs (on the website) and ask pupils to pick the correct one each day.
Sample activities You will find a bank of sample activities which you can use to practise the vocabulary in the classroom. This is not a prescriptive list of activities and you can use or adapt them to suit the needs of your class. You will find a set of more challenging activities in First Level Greetings.
Montag Dienstag Mittwoch Donnerstag Freitag Samstag Sonntag Rhyme to practice learning the days in sequence. You can use them as you would for counting games.
Welcher Tag ist das? 1 Pupils should look at the slides, listen to the day of the week in German and try and match the day of the week to the correct word in English. You could support this further by using day of the week fans so that pupils could do their own individual version.
Welcher Tag ist das? Tuesday Sunday Sonntag Monday Wednesday
Welcher Tag ist das? Friday Thursday Freitag Tuesday Sunday
Welcher Tag ist das? Saturday Monday Samstag Tuesday Thursday
Welcher Tag ist das? Tuesday Sunday Mittwoch Monday Wednesday
Welcher Tag ist das? 2 Pupils should look at the slides and try and guest which day of the week it is hidden behind the question mark. To support this they could have days of the week on cards in front of them. This can be further supported
Welcher Tag ist das? Es ist Montag Mystic cards: Pupils have to guess which day of the week is behind the question mark MARDI
Welcher Tag ist das? Samstag Es ist SAMEDI
Welcher Tag ist das? Mittwoch Es ist MERCREDI
Welcher Tag ist das? Es ist Freitag VENDREDI
Welcher Tag ist das? Es ist Montag LUNDI
Welcher Tag ist das? Es ist Sonntag DIMANCHE
Welcher Tag ist das? Es ist Thursday JEUDI
Welcher Tag ist das? Es ist Dienstag MARDI
Welcher Tag ist das? Es ist Donnerstag JEUDI
Welcher Tag ist das? Es ist Samstag DIMANCHE
Songs and videos! You will find a bank of sample songs and videos which you can use to practise the vocabulary in the classroom. This is not a prescriptive list of songs and you can use or adapt them to suit the needs of your class. You will find a set of more challenging activities in First Level Days of the Week and Months.
Die Wochentage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aOa9VcT0Z4
German Days of the Week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_8hwdOExDc
Tschüss!