Students from Ms Sporn’s and Mr Hanna’s classes have been learning how to pronounce numbers above 20 in German. This helps them to state their street number and address as well as their birthdate in German. They discovered that when counting above 20 in German, the tens and unit part of any number is reversed (tricky)!

We used the Interactive Language site to play the game ‘Gewichtheben’ ( Number weight lifting). This helped us to learn how to say the multiples of 10 in German.

We played the ‘Aufwiedersehen’ game in small groups. Each group had a different ‘buzz’ number between 20 and 99. If their number was 34, they continually counted between 30 and 40 until only one person was left standing. We moved groups and practised counting between different multiples of 10 in German.

Students then did a mix and match activity to show how clever they are at saying their numbers above 20. Can you see the pattern for saying any numbers above 20 in German?That’s right. The unit number is said first, followed by the multiple of ten. So 24 is said ‘four and twenty’ instead of ‘twenty four’.  But remember, only the tens and units part of any number is reversed when saying numbers in German. The order of the thousands and hundreds number stays the same! We are now ready to play BINGO with numbers above 20!