Narrate a new experience: perfect tense with 'haben'
Learning outcomes
I can use the perfect tense with 'haben' to understand and narrate a short sequence of past events.
I can confidently pronounce the umlaut letters [ä] [ö] [ü], distinguishing them clearly from [a], [o], [u].
- Year 8
Narrate a new experience: perfect tense with 'haben'
Learning outcomes
I can use the perfect tense with 'haben' to understand and narrate a short sequence of past events.
I can confidently pronounce the umlaut letters [ä] [ö] [ü], distinguishing them clearly from [a], [o], [u].
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Key learning points
- The German alphabet has 26 standard letters, like English, and four additional characters [ä], [ö], [ü] and ß.
- The umlaut letters [ä], [ö], [ü] sound very different from [a], [o] and [u] and require practice.
- Sentence building is the process of creating meaningful sentences using knowledge of both vocabulary and grammar.
- The perfect tense with most verbs uses the present tense of the verb ‘haben’ together with a past participle.
- For strong past participles, ge- and –en sandwich the stem; the stem may have a vowel change, too.
Keywords
Umlaut - pair of dots ( ¨ ) placed over the vowels a, o, u in German to indicate a change in pronunciation
Sentence building - creating meaningful sentences using knowledge of both vocabulary and grammar
Perfect tense - 2-verb tense that describes completed actions in the past e.g., 'I said', 'she played'
Common misconception
If a verb is 'strong', its past participle always has a vowel change.
In German, a strong verb has a stem change in one or more tenses. Some strong verbs have a stem change in the present tense but not in the perfect tense, e.g., 'sehen' - 'er, sie, es sieht' - 'hat gesehen'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is the German word for 'vegetables'?
Q2.Match each English word to the correct German translation.
Q3.Put the words below in the correct order to make a past tense sentence. Start with 'ich'.
Q4.Look at the following German sentence and decide what tense it is, before translating it into English: 'Die Sängerin hat gesungen.'
Q5.Match the subjects to the correct form of 'haben'.
Q6.Complete the following sentence by writing the correct past participle of the verb 'zeigen' (to show): 'Sie hat die Karte .'
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.Match each German letter to how it is usually pronounced.
