![]() Now, after learning and practising those basic sentences for a while, I asked my students the following question: Why does the dog have “einen Ball” and not “ein Ball”? I made the children aware of the changing articles. For example: “Das Mädchen tanzt im Garten.” (The girl is dancing in the garden.) “Der Hund hat einen Ball.” (Accusative-haben, “the dog has a ball.”) and so on…. The next challenge is to teach the children as many nouns and basic sentences as possible. It definitely takes a lot of time to get used to this rather abstract idea. They could not believe that a girl (das Mädchen) is an “it” (es) and that a chair (der Stuhl) is a “he” (er). I still can remember the day I introduced this new topic “Die Artikel” to one small group of young students. In my case, I’m talking about 5-10 year old kids that have learned German almost weekly (minus holidays and bank holidays etc.) for about 1 year.įirstly it is essential that the children understand that in German, every article (der, die, das, eine, ein) has a gender and that the gender determines the personal pronoun (ich, du, er, sie, es, wir ,ihr). Personally I think that it is nearly impossible to introduce the cases in that manner but it all depends on the language level of the students. So, where to start? Commonly people would suggest to start with the questions (whom, who etc.) that help students to find the direct object, subject and indirect object. And let’s be honest, teaching German Grammar can be challenging as well. Again, this is not easy either however, it gives teachers more options to create interesting and engaging lessons rather than dry and boring grammatical sessions. Rather than explaining to children what Accusative and Dative means, to me it seems far more beneficial to teach Grammar in an indirect way. As you know, German Grammar is extremely complex and it takes a lot of practice and willpower (at least at times) to understand the link between adjectives, the four cases, nouns, direct objects, verbs, indirect objects….etc. “The boy” is the subject of the sentence whereas “a cat” is the direct object as something happened to it (it was found by the boy).Īs you can see, teaching children German Grammar and especially the German cases such as accusative and dative is definitely not an easy task. Example: “Der Junge fand eine Katze.” (The boy found a cat). This means that something happens to a noun or pronoun “directly”. The accusative case marks the direct object in a sentence. ![]()
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