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
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- c
- b
- 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