GERMAN ICH UND MEINE FAMILIE HOME LEARNING YEAR 7

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1 GERMAN ICH UND MEINE FAMILIE HOME LEARNING YEAR 7 Name Tutor Group German Teacher Given out Monday 22 May Hand in: Monday 5 June Parent/Carer comment: Staff comment: Target: 1

2 This homework booklet will help you to develop and practise your skills in languages and give you a chance to reflect on your progress. Each exercise is labelled as: Bronze: Bronze: All students to complete. Tasks include recognition, listening and simple grammar or vocabulary. Silver: All students to try to complete. Tasks include developing ideas, more detailed recognition and development of grammar and vocabulary. Gold: Some students to complete. Tasks include higher level skill development, more detailed language structures and vocabulary recognition. Pupils must complete the self-evaluation boxes at the end of the booklet. Parents must comment and sign on completion. 2

3 Exercise 1: Match the German adjectives with the English; you may use a dictionary or the internet to help if you need to. funny freundlich musical sportlich lazy kreativ shy lustig late musikalisch moody intelligent friendly faul loud launisch sporty schüchtern intelligent unpünktlich creative laut 3

4 Read the text below about a girl describing her family. Hallo! Ich heisse Anja und ich bin zwölf Jahre alt. Ich habe blaue Augen und lange braune Haare. Ich bin mittelgross und schlank. Ich trage eine Brille. Ich wohne in Hamburg mit meiner Familie. Ich habe einen Zwillingsbruder. Er heisst Paul. Er hat blaue Augen und kurze lockige braune Haare. Ich habe eine Schwester. Sie heisst Karolina und sie ist neun Jahre alt. Sie ist klein und stabil gebaut. Meine Muter heisst Marlene und mein Vater heisst Hans. Meine Mutter ist sehr intelligent und kreativ. Mein Vater ist sportlich. Er spielt Fussball jeden Samstag. Ich habe eine Katze, die Mimmi heisst. Sie ist schwarz. Exercise 2: Look up 6 words you don t know in the text above and write it, with its English meaning, in the box below. e.g Zwillingsbruder Twin brother 4

5 Exercise 3: Adjectives are describing words. Underline the adjectives only in the letter above. Exercise 4: Answer the following questions about the text: 1) How old is Anja? 2) Where does she live? 3) How many people are in Anja s family (including her? 4) What does Paul look like (hair and eyes)? 5) How does Anja describe her Dad? 5

6 5. Translate the following sentences. 1) Ich habe eine Schwester. 2) Ist deine Mutter kreativ? 3) Hast du Geschwister? 4) Mein Cousin hat braune Augen und er ist klein. 5) Bist du sportlich?. 6) Wir haben einen Hund und zwei Goldfische 6

7 Exercise 6: A verb is a doing word. There is a verb in every sentence. Can you underline them in the sentences above? Exercise 7: Can you fill in the correct spelling of the verb haben (to have) and sein (to be)? Use the sentences above to help you. Can you spot the pattern? Haben to have Sein to be I ich h b you du h b he er she sie we wir 7

8 Cultural Awareness Task Exercise 4: Research a famous, living German person and fill in the information about them. If possible, find a picture of them and stick it in the box below. Here are some suggestions of who to research: footballer tennis player singer musician formula 1 driver actor / actress model fashion designer 8

9 Name: Age: Birthday: Job: Where they live: Hobbies: Achievements: Extra information: 9

10 Exercise 5: Design a Celebrity Family tree. Imagine you have famous people as your brother/sister/mother/father. David Beckham = mein Vater/ Lily Allen = Meine Schwester). Include a picture/drawing correctly labelled in German. Use the words given to correctly label each space. You can use a dictionary if you wish and could look up other German vocabulary. ICH (me) Mein Vater = my dad/father Meine Mutter = my mum/mother Meine Tante = my auntie Mein Onkel = my uncle Mein Bruder = my brother Meine Schwester = my sister Mein Opa = my Granddad Meine Oma = my grandma Meine Cousine = my cousin Mein Cousin = my cousin 10

11 I can. Very well fairly well need more help match up German to English find key language within a text adapt and produce a short passage of writing understand simple verb forms of haben and sein scan information correctly write German from memory Student comment: My target for the next homework project is Parent/Guardian comment: 11

12 Self Evaluation of my Homework I am a R learner. I know this because: I believe that my effort and attitude to learning for this booklet is a: I know this because: 12