The Black Forest: singular perfect tense with 'haben' and 'sein', 'durch'
Learning outcomes
I can express what I or someone else did or has done on a past trip.
I can recognise, write and pronounce [er] sounds correctly.
- Year 8
The Black Forest: singular perfect tense with 'haben' and 'sein', 'durch'
Learning outcomes
I can express what I or someone else did or has done on a past trip.
I can recognise, write and pronounce [er] sounds correctly.
Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Learning new words requires practice in a range of ways, e.g., the look, cover, write, check method and self-testing.
- [er] is two common sounds in German, which need to be practised regularly in reading aloud, speaking and writing.
- The 3rd person singular perfect tense uses 'hat' or 'ist' with a past participle to say what he or she did or has done.
- 'Durch' is a preposition meaning 'through' and is always followed by the accusative.
Keywords
[er] - sound-symbol correspondence pronounced as in ‘er’ ('he'), and ‘wieder’ ('again')
Perfect tense - the German past tense which translates 2 English past tenses; e.g., 'I did' and 'I have done'
Past participle - the form of a verb used in the perfect tense; e.g., 'gespielt' ('played')
Common misconception
The perfect tense in German is always formed with a part of 'haben' to express what someone has done.
Some verbs require a part of 'sein' to form the perfect tense, often with verbs of movement to a destination.
Equipment
A mini whiteboard and pen, together with pen and paper for making notes, would be useful, if available.
Licence
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these words means 'already'?
Q2.'Ich bin __________ Jahr nach Deutschland gefahren.'. Choose the correct missing word.
Q3.Match the German and English.
Q4.Match the German and English.
