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A young, German blogger explores her home city of Berlin, teaching viewers about nouns along the way. First, she explains the various modes of transportation that can be taken around the city as well as various famous monuments. She then goes to the Turkish market and explains the variety of food products that you can buy there as well as local restaurants.

This could be used initially as a cultural element to introduce new learners of German to the country’s capital city. From a grammar perspective pupils could be introduced to basic concepts such as nouns and definite articles to prompt further discussion about the idea of gendered nouns (i.e. words classified as masculine, feminine or neuter). Pupils could be asked if they know of any other languages that also have gendered nouns. Does this occur in English? A further learning point could include pointing out which word endings typically indicate the gender of the noun.