Moin!

Let’s warm up with our daily small talk (Tagesminiplausch) and a brief review (Wiederholung) !

Wiederholung

In the previous lesson, you learned the many colors that make up the murals in Laramie and how to say that you like something. Review these concepts with these activities.

Lektionsüberblick

When you are in a German-speaking country, it is expected and useful to compare the new things you are seeing and experiencing with what you already know. In the previous lesson, we connected our budding German language skills to the world around us, specifically to the murals in Laramie. In this lesson, we will connect our world in Laramie to Germany, specifically the Laramie murals to the murals of the East Side Gallery, one of the few remaining pieces of the Berlin Wall still standing.

In the end, you will be able to 1) say what you do not like, and 2) ask someone if they (do not) like something.

The East Side Gallery

The East Side Gallery is the longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall and is now a memorial. It is 1,316 m (4,318 ft) long and has contained murals since 1990, the year after the Wall fell. Murals were not maintained and were replaced with replicas in 2005. Some of the replicas were done by the original artists.

1) How to say what you don’t like

Can you guess from the dialogue between Sofia and Matteo how to say that you don’t like something?

Sofia: Mir gefällt das Wandbild. Matteo: Mir gefällt das Wandbild nicht.	Sofia: Mir gefällt das Wandbild. Matteo: Mir gefällt das Wandbild nicht. Mir gefallen beide Wandbilder nicht.

Let’s practice!

Jetzt bist du dran!

You are at the East Side Gallery and you see these murals.

Looking at them from left to right, write down a statement for each whether you like the mural or not.
Then record yourself while looking at the murals from left to right and saying whether your like each mural (or not). If you can do it immediately without reading, that’s great! Otherwise, practice saying it a couple times before recording. Or rerecord, if you are not satisfied.

2) How to ask someone if they like something

Sofia: Mir gefällt das Wandbild? Gefällt es dir? Matteo: Nein. Mir gefällt das Wandbild nicht.	Sofia: Mir gefällt das Wandbild? Und dir? Matteo: Nein. Mir gefällt das Wandbild nicht. Mir gefallen beide Wandbilder nicht.

You’ve previously learned that you can ask a question back by saying “Und du?”

Our “magic question” does not work for the question “Gefällt … dir?”

But we can take the structure and swap in the new word -> Just like there is a “dir” here instead of the “du” in questions we discussed so far (Wie heißt du? Wie alt bist du?), the “Und du?” becomes “Und dir?“

Let’s Practice!

*As you conclude this lesson, don’t forget to check Canvas!*

Media Attributions

• Color activities from Willkommen: Deutsch für alle, licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License
• Images of East Side Gallery from Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC-SA and CC0 International License