1. Lichtenstein
There are six European countries that have German as the official language, and the tiny alpine Principality of Liechtenstein, with its population of under 40,000, is one of them. This is VADUZ CASTLE, a 700-year-old fortress overlooking the country's capital, which has been owned by the princes of Liechtenstein since 1712 and their family home since The Prince of Liechtenstein is the world's sixth wealthiest monarch, the country one of the wealthiest in the world, and it is the world's largest producer of false teeth. In the Upper Rhine valley of the European Alps, it is doubly landlocked - a landlocked country totally surrounded by other landlocked countries; bordered to the east by Austria, to the south and west by Switzerland, and with its western border formed by the Rhine river.

3. Frage des Tages Ich fange ___ November mit dem Joggen an. a) in b) im
What is the German word for cartoon?
Bildergeschickten/Cartoon

4. Objective
Students will be able to conjugate a list of regular verbs with a 70% accuracy rate. Students will be able to identify household chore vocabulary from the the Hilfst du zu Hause reading. Students will be able to name different forms of time.

5. Order of Events Quiz – Regular verbs
Finish Hilfst du zu Hause – reading and wksht.
Pg. 21 Times of Day
Time elements notes
List forms of time on the board
Review chores

6. Time elements
The preposition im is used with seasons and months: im Frühling, im Oktober. At night is in der Nacht.
The preposition am is used with days of the week and parts of the day other than die Nacht;
am Diestag, on Tuesday
am Abend, in the evening
Except for die Nacht and die Woche, the months, days of the week, and divisions of the week are all der nouns.

7. Time elements
In referring to a year, either the number of the year is used alone or the expression im Jahre may be used before the number: Er fuhr (im Jahre) 1948 nach Amerika. (He went to America in 1948.) The expression “in 1948” must not be used!
The article is regularly used with the names of seasons, months, days of the week, and parts of the day: Der April macht die Blumen, und der Mai hat den Dank dafür.

8. Time elements
The expressions zu Mittag essen and zu Abend essen mean to have lunch and to have dinner: Ich esse im Restaurant zu Mittag. I’m having lunch in the restaurant.

9. Common Time Intervals heute gestern heute Morgen gestern Morgen
heute früh gestern früh
heute Abend gestern Abend
heute Nacht gestern Nacht

10. Common Time Intervals vorgestern – day before yesterday
morgen früh – tomorrow morning
übermorgen – day after tomorrow
heute in acht Tagen – a week from today
(heute) vor acht Tagen – a week ago from today
vorige Woche – last week
seit vier Tagen – for the past four days

11. Date Welches Datum ist heute? Heute ist der vierte März.
Welches Datum haben wir?
Heute haben wir den vierten März.

12. Wie hilfst du zu Hause?

15. Wie oft hilfst du zu Hause?