We had very clever Year 4/5s today. Students were given an A3 sized letter written COMPLETELY in German. At first, they were nervous about having so much German in front of them but, working in pairs, they soon discovered that they could in fact read and understand the majority of the letter.

Points that we discussed today were:

– key word recognition is important to understanding the general idea of a sentence

– you do not need to understand every word to be successful at translating

– you know more than you think you do!