Desires, plans and priorities: 'möcht-' future and use of infinitive

Desires, plans and priorities: 'möcht-' future and use of infinitive

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Why this why now

This unit extends pupils' ability to express desires and plans with 'möcht-', used with a noun and with an infinitive in a two-verb structure. Pupils extend their knowledge and use of the future tense, contrasting it with verbs like 'vorhaben' as they revisit zu +infinitive. Vocabulary is extended as pupils express both immediate desires at a Christmas market and longer term plans, challenges and priorities. Pupils ask and answer questions on what they did with and for others, reactivating knowledge of prepositions.

Prior knowledge requirements

  • Pupils know determiners (definite articles, dies-, jed-, alle welch-) in nominative and accusative cases.
  • Pupils know comparative adjectives and adverbs.
  • Pupils know two-verb structures with modal verbs.
  • Pupils know and can use separable verbs in the present tense.
  • Pupils know prepositions which taking the accusative (for example für and gegen) or the dative (for example mit and von).

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Why this why now

This unit extends pupils' ability to express desires and plans with 'möcht-', used with a noun and with an infinitive in a two-verb structure. Pupils extend their knowledge and use of the future tense, contrasting it with verbs like 'vorhaben' as they revisit zu +infinitive. Vocabulary is extended as pupils express both immediate desires at a Christmas market and longer term plans, challenges and priorities. Pupils ask and answer questions on what they did with and for others, reactivating knowledge of prepositions.

Prior knowledge requirements

  • Pupils know determiners (definite articles, dies-, jed-, alle welch-) in nominative and accusative cases.
  • Pupils know comparative adjectives and adverbs.
  • Pupils know two-verb structures with modal verbs.
  • Pupils know and can use separable verbs in the present tense.
  • Pupils know prepositions which taking the accusative (for example für and gegen) or the dative (for example mit and von).

Desires, plans and priorities: 'möcht-' future and use of infinitive

This unit extends knowledge of the future tense for all persons, and introduces 'möcht-' , with nouns and in two-verb structures. Using the infinite with 'es ist' + adjective, zu + infinitive extends pupils' ability to give views and opinions. Prepositions with accusative and dative are revisited.