mögen (German) - Structured Vocabulary Support
£2.00
Many learners meet 'mögen' as a row in a table. It goes in for the vocabulary test and it is gone by the following term.
'Mögen' has not meant 'to like' for most of its life. It meant something quite different for around nine hundred years, and the modern sense arrived by a route nobody would predict. The deck walks that change one stage at a time.
What's included
The single sheet: the whole word on one page, ready to print.
The etymology comic: nine illustrated cards, one idea to a page, each with a short learner caption. Two are conjugation panels, at KS3 and KS4. There is a panel on 'mochte' and 'möchte' - a single umlaut, two entirely different meanings, and the mistake almost every learner makes. A cognate map puts the same verb beside its English, Dutch and Swedish relatives. And one card is the near-miss: 'machen' looks like it belongs to this family and does not.
Then the word-history breakdown from Indo-European to modern German, the English-links section, a sources page, and a short how-to-use guide for the adult.
How it prints
Two ways, both the same content.
The quick way: print the single sheet at the end. The whole word is on one page and it needs nothing doing to it. This is the one I use most.
The other way: print single-sided, laminate and trim the large cards and put them on a binder ring. Same material, more preparation, and worth it if you would rather have one idea in front of the child at a time than a whole sheet at once. The cards are numbered so a loose deck goes back together. You will need a laminator and a ring, and you assemble it yourself; there is no ready-made deck.
For personal use in home education and tutoring only.
Who it's for
Parents helping a child revise German; German learners at KS3 and KS4; home-educated children; anyone who likes word histories; dyslexic learners and those with weak working memory; adults picking German back up.
It is not for a learner who has not yet met the German present tense. The conjugation panels assume the learner can already read 'ich', 'du' and 'er', and knows that German verbs change their endings, even if they have not learned this one.
Why this exists
Modal verbs are taught as a table to memorise, and a memorised table is the first thing to go.
'Mögen' has a history attached, and knowing it gives a learner something to hang the word on besides repetition. When 'ich mag' comes round again there is something behind it.
I first made these for my dyslexic son.
Available now as a PDF download.
Many learners meet 'mögen' as a row in a table. It goes in for the vocabulary test and it is gone by the following term.
'Mögen' has not meant 'to like' for most of its life. It meant something quite different for around nine hundred years, and the modern sense arrived by a route nobody would predict. The deck walks that change one stage at a time.
What's included
The single sheet: the whole word on one page, ready to print.
The etymology comic: nine illustrated cards, one idea to a page, each with a short learner caption. Two are conjugation panels, at KS3 and KS4. There is a panel on 'mochte' and 'möchte' - a single umlaut, two entirely different meanings, and the mistake almost every learner makes. A cognate map puts the same verb beside its English, Dutch and Swedish relatives. And one card is the near-miss: 'machen' looks like it belongs to this family and does not.
Then the word-history breakdown from Indo-European to modern German, the English-links section, a sources page, and a short how-to-use guide for the adult.
How it prints
Two ways, both the same content.
The quick way: print the single sheet at the end. The whole word is on one page and it needs nothing doing to it. This is the one I use most.
The other way: print single-sided, laminate and trim the large cards and put them on a binder ring. Same material, more preparation, and worth it if you would rather have one idea in front of the child at a time than a whole sheet at once. The cards are numbered so a loose deck goes back together. You will need a laminator and a ring, and you assemble it yourself; there is no ready-made deck.
For personal use in home education and tutoring only.
Who it's for
Parents helping a child revise German; German learners at KS3 and KS4; home-educated children; anyone who likes word histories; dyslexic learners and those with weak working memory; adults picking German back up.
It is not for a learner who has not yet met the German present tense. The conjugation panels assume the learner can already read 'ich', 'du' and 'er', and knows that German verbs change their endings, even if they have not learned this one.
Why this exists
Modal verbs are taught as a table to memorise, and a memorised table is the first thing to go.
'Mögen' has a history attached, and knowing it gives a learner something to hang the word on besides repetition. When 'ich mag' comes round again there is something behind it.
I first made these for my dyslexic son.
Available now as a PDF download.
