VIDEO: Verbs in elementary school

Verbs are "do-words"

• For many children, the German grammar obscure. Terms such as verbs, do-words, verbs, present, perfect, past, perfect, Past past, past perfect, future, future and past tense, imperfect tense can be the explanations make more difficult.

• Although the German grammar is very functional and systematic, children must first get to know, understand and then grasp this system. How should a child understand why verbs are called "verbs" or "do-words"?

• In the large classes, teachers at school can often only take into account the average level of knowledge of all children in order to convey the subject matter to the required extent. Children who feel that they cannot keep up, often despair and inwardly give up.

• No child wants to fail at school. If your child does not question the subject matter they do not understand, it may be because of their sense of shame instead of disinterest. Familiarize yourself with the material to help your child understand.

Here's How To Practice With Elementary School Children Effectively

Give your child moral support and agree that this subject is difficult and that the many different words are very misleading. Immediately afterwards encourage it that together you will manage to penetrate this "word forest":

• First make it clear to yourself that verb, translated from Latin, means "verbum temporale". The word "do-word" was introduced for children to help them understand the distinctions between e.g. B. To facilitate adjectives (adjectives) and adverbs (maternity words). Only when you have clarified this for yourself will you and your child learn mainly according to the term "verbs".

• Prepare worksheets that clearly state what is involved. Unfortunately, children are unsettled by many other, incidental word names during the explanations. Therefore, focus the child very consciously on the verbs by clearly excluding them together. As an example: Explain that a sentence has a lot of building blocks, e.g. B. "I (pronoun) build (verb) a new (adjective) house (noun) back there (adverb)", which you will not worry about now, but later.

• Underneath, write the sentence: "I'm building a house" and ask your child what the words are: pronoun - verb - noun. Now write down: "I built a house". Ask what your child notices. Then write: "I will build a house." Let your child think about what they notice. Together, work out that a verb can describe the present, the past, and the future. Your child will be able to handle this safely and will have understood that verbs can be used to express different "tenses". That is why a verb is called "verb".

• Reinforce the concentration on the verbs (verbs) by writing the sentence: "I (pronoun) are building (verb) a house (noun)". Ask your child what it would be like if it just said, "I (pronoun) a house (noun)" or "I'm building (verb) a house (noun)"? Direct the child's gaze to the fact that verbs are always associated with pronouns because they explain what the pronoun does. Point out to your child that this is why verbs are also called "do-words".

• Practice together the verbs (verbs) that can tell about yesterday, today and tomorrow. Make your child aware that a verb always needs a supplement because otherwise it says nothing: "I am building". "I built". "I will build." With this form you have the most significant addition, the nominative addition explains, because in the nominative addition the subject is always mentioned that together with the verb a unit forms.

Exercise sheets help you learn

• Make worksheets that your child can use to learn verbs (verbs). Write e.g. E.g. play - to play. Ask what the difference is between the two words. Explain that verbs (verbs) are always written in lower case and with a "to" - "to the"... become a noun (noun).

• Draw up a table with the headings: verb, present, past, future. To differentiate, add the past (past tense). Practice the basic forms (speaking, playing, dancing) of the times together with lots of work slips compare: played (past tense), played (past), play (present), will play (Future).

• The past tense is only used in writing, e.g. B: "I built a house". Linguistically one would say: "I have built a house." For the child this means the learning step of conjugation.

• Make your child aware of the past and future tense additions: have played - will play. Additions to the past are the auxiliary verbs "haben" and "sein". The future tense also needs auxiliary verbs "will", "will". Make your child aware of the past tense conjugation (acted).