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Year 9

Narrating a story: imperfect tense

4 lessons

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  • Cultural spotlight
  • Read and respond to texts
  • The past

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This unit introduces the imperfect (simple past) tense of regular and highly frequent irregular verbs in singular persons.Da- compounds are revisited along with the perfect tense and the historic present in the narration of a story.

This unit, designed around an adaptation of Grimm Brothers' fairy tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin (Der Rattenfänger) uses a famous literary base to introduce the imperfect tense for narration. Pupils also practise their knowledge of the new tense in contrast with the present tense..

  1. Narrate a story: singular imperfect tense - regular and key irregular verbs
  2. Narrate a story: imperfect tense, da- and wo- compounds
  3. Story - der Rattenfänger: understand an authentic text in the imperfect tense
  4. Story - der Rattenfänger: respond to an authentic text, imperfect tense vs perfect tense

  • Pupils know the imperfect tense of 'sein' and 'haben' and es gab.
  • Pupils know the perfect tense.
  • Pupils know and understand the use of the historic present.

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