Die Wuppertaler Schwebebahn: past tense, past participles, time-manner-place
Learning outcomes
I can form the perfect tense of different types of verbs and describe a past trip using adverbs of time, manner and place.
I understand where the stress falls on past participles.
- Year 10
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Die Wuppertaler Schwebebahn: past tense, past participles, time-manner-place
Learning outcomes
I can form the perfect tense of different types of verbs and describe a past trip using adverbs of time, manner and place.
I understand where the stress falls on past participles.
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Key learning points
- German uses the perfect tense to describe most past events, but English uses simple past for specific, completed events.
- Form the perfect tense with a present tense of 'haben' or 'sein', plus a past participle at the end of the sentence.
- Weak verbs form past participles by sandwiching the verb stem with 'ge-' and '-t'. '-ieren' verbs don't add 'ge-'.
- Strong verbs form past participles with 'ge-' and '-en'. Separable prefixes go before 'ge-'.
- The order of adverbs in a sentence is time ('um 6 Uhr'), manner ('mit Freunden'), place ('im Haus').
Keywords
Perfect tense - a past tense formed with the present tense of 'sein' or 'haben' and a past participle
Past participle - verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb
Time, manner, place (TMP) - the order of adverbs in a German sentence - time before manner before place, abbreviated to TMP
Common misconception
All verbs use the auxiliary verb 'haben' to form the perfect tense.
A small number of verbs use the auxiliary verb 'sein' to form the perfect tense. These verbs usually refer to movement or a change of physical state.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the adverbs to the correct examples.
