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Zum Aufwärmen machen wir unseren Tagesminiplausch und eine Wiederholung.

Wiederholung

In the previous lesson, you learned how to say how you are doing and how to ask others how they are doing. Let’s do a quick review.

Lektionsüberblick

What kind of typical responses do you give to the question “How are you”? Many people respond with a very simple “fine” – in particular, if they do not know the greeter/questioner well. But when you are talking to friends or family, you probably give a more specific response (in other words, you treat “How are you?” like a real question and not a greeting.) You might say “tired” or “nervous” instead the complete thought “I am tired” or “I’m feeling nervous”. The listener fills in the gaps and understands the complete thought behind the single word. (What we are getting at is that you would never use those words to complete the sentence “I am doing…”, which is the literal direct response to “How are you?”.)

If you want to respond to “Wie geht’s?” with the physical or mental states like “müde” (tired) or “nervös”, you will need to say the complete thought (I am tired. I am nervous.). Otherwise, your single word answer will sound like “I am doing tired” or “I am doing nervous”.

In this lesson, we will expand on our ability to answer the question “Wie geht’s?” by being able to talk about feelings (Gefühle), other states of mind (Geisteszustände), and physical states (körperliche Zustände). In the end, you will be able to 1) identify feelings that are cognates, 2) identify opposites, and 3) create opposites by adding “nicht”.

1) Identify feelings that are cognates

It is important to have the vocabulary to express our feelings and states of mind and body. A great place to start is with words that are similar between two languages. Can you tell what these words mean? For the first word listed, think of the d as a th. That might help!

Gefühle (Feelings)

Let’s practice!

2) Identify opposites

Using the emoji cues in the activity below, see if you can match each sentence describing a feeling with its opposite.

Read about Becca’s good day and Markus’ bad day in the activity below. Then practice building sentences.

3) Create opposites by adding “nicht”

You might have noticed above how we created the opposite of müde (tired) with the words nicht müde (not tired). Let’s practice building some more opposite feelings in this way.

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

Media Attributions

Emoji activity adapted from Gefühle – Gegenteile | Zuordnung, by Karl Krist, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 International License.