Bonjour tout les monde,
Saturday's class shall be our only class for the next 3 weeks; 28th March and 4th April are free for Spring Break and Easter.
We covered two primary topics in class this period:
-The perfect (past tense, written)
-Tribal warfare
Two of my favorite topics!
We discussed how to form the past tense using haben or sein as a helping verb, followed by the past participle at the end of the sentence. Whether haben or sein is used depends primarily on whether the verb being put in the past is transitive (takes an object) or intransitive (takes no object). Verbs that use haben are typically transitive, and the intransitive verbs (being, location, movement) take sein.
Ich bin gerannt (I ran)
Ich habe Baseball gespielt (I played baseball)
Movement, location, or being doesn't typically take an object, so they are intransitive. Everything else is typically transitive as objects are taken, "stuff is done to things."
Our cultural unit was over tribal warfare in Iron Age Germania, namely how and why it was that there was no such unified "Germany" in those days and instead were just a gaggle of mostly hostile, insular tribes. We discussed such ideas as regional language shifts, and how geography affects lifestyle, habits, traditions, beliefs and technology. I was very impressed at how the kids were able to list reasons for tribes to grow apart or develop differently from one another without my needing to prompt them.
The day ended on a high note as we took out the garbage without any squirrel-related incidents.
Frohe Oster and schöne Frühlingspause!
Mit Vergnügen
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