1. Vocab revision:
  • Let’s work on the new words first – do this short vocab test:
2. A world language:
  • Why is English a world language, but not German? What do you think?
  • Well this has got a lot to do with history (= Geschichte) – let’s find out:
  • First read the text on page 103/3b and make sure you understand all the words! And: read it out aloud, I want to hear you!
  • Ready? Great – then let’s do exercises 1a and b:
  • Many people in the world speak English today because of English sailors: they took (= brachten) English to other countries and continents!
  • A lot of people love American culture like films and music so they want to learn English to understand everything
  1.  d
  2.  c
  3.  b
  4.  a
  • Read the complete sentences out aloud!
3. Listening: where are we from?
  • Let’s do p. 103/4
  • Listen to this audio and take notes
  • Speaker 1: Scotland
  • Speaker 2: Australia
  • Speaker 3: USA
  • Speaker 4: Ireland
  • Speaker 5: Scotland
  • Scotland: lads and lasses, wee, loch
  • Australia: arvo, G’day
  • USA: cookie, candy, movie
  • Ireland: I’m grand, What’s the craic
  • They talk about famous cities in their countries, the landscape (= Landschaft) and animals, for example
4. German and English words:
  • Look at p. 103/5
  • Make a grid in your exercise book and fill in English words which are like German words (Group 5 = entertainment). Compare your ideas with the solution here:
Clothes Technology Food Sport Entertainment
T-shirt
Jeans
Jacke
Pullover
Hut
Schuh
CD Player
DVD Player
Computer
Laptop
Tablet
Beamer
Eiscreme
Hamburger
Cupcake
Bubbletea
Butter
Chips
Basketball
Volleyball
Hockey
Match
Team
kicken
Film
Comic
Video
Podcast
Blog
Musik
  • Achtung: „Handy“ gehört nicht dazu, es ist im Englischen kein Nomen sondern ein Adjektiv und bedeutet „praktisch, nützlich, handlich“!
5. Homework:
  • Workbook p. 67/1, 2, 3