Popular culture: Vorbilder
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Why this why now
This unit provides a rich cultural seam through which pupils revisit and consolidate knowledge of the perfect tense in yes/no questions, and with adverbs. Pupils also learn to ask yes/no questions in the simple past. Texts on the literary heroine 'Heidi' by Johanna Spyri, German astronaut Matthias Maurer, and TV news anchor Marietta Slomka also facilitate dictation and extended translation opportunities, alongside core thread of asking and answering questions.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know how to form yes/no questions in the perfect tense.
- Pupils know how to form the perfect tense of verbs ending in '-ieren'.
- Pupils know how to use the perfect tense with time adverbials such as 'nie' 'schon' and 'noch nicht'.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit provides a rich cultural seam through which pupils revisit and consolidate knowledge of the perfect tense in yes/no questions, and with adverbs. Pupils also learn to ask yes/no questions in the simple past. Texts on the literary heroine 'Heidi' by Johanna Spyri, German astronaut Matthias Maurer, and TV news anchor Marietta Slomka also facilitate dictation and extended translation opportunities, alongside core thread of asking and answering questions.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know how to form yes/no questions in the perfect tense.
- Pupils know how to form the perfect tense of verbs ending in '-ieren'.
- Pupils know how to use the perfect tense with time adverbials such as 'nie' 'schon' and 'noch nicht'.
Popular culture: Vorbilder
This unit revisits the perfect tense of '-ieren' verbs, the use and translation of perfect tense with adverbs of time. Pupils learn to add -er to a verb stem to create male agent nouns, extending their ability to manipulate known and new vocabulary when talking about role models.
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