What day is it today? What day comes next? You already know the answers in English, and probably in Irish too. Today we learn all seven days of the week in German, in order, so you can name any day of the school week, just as a class in Germany does on their wall planner.

Here is how a class in Hamburg labels their week on the wall planner. You will meet the seven days in two short chunks. For each card: hear the German and see it first, then say it with the class. Listen for the strong tahk ending on most days. Mittwoch is the odd one out: no tahk ending; it is MIT-vokh, like a soft clearing of the throat at the end. Have fun with it. Every German day starts with a capital letter.

Volunteers flip two cards at a time on the board. When a card is flipped, everyone whispers the German day; the volunteer only taps. When a match is found, the whole class says the German together and listens to the audio.

Then look at a simple German school timetable (Stundenplan) on the board: Sport am Dienstag, Musik am Freitag, Kunst am Mittwoch. Tables take turns saying the full week Monday to Sunday, then answer: which day is Sport? Which day is Musik?

Use the bingo card on your desk. Listen carefully for each German day as it is called. Mark the day on your printed bingo card when you hear it. First full line stands and says Bingo, then reads their marked days aloud in German.