What is important in life: infinitive uses, verbs capitalised as nouns
I can use infinitives as nouns and know when to use 'zu' with infinitives in the context of important relationships with others.
- Year 9
What is important in life: infinitive uses, verbs capitalised as nouns
I can use infinitives as nouns and know when to use 'zu' with infinitives in the context of important relationships with others.
Lesson details
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Key learning points
- Using a range of strategies, e.g., synonym spotting, can help deepen vocabulary knowledge.
- Using surrounding words to help infer meaning of unfamiliar words is a key strategy in reading comprehension.
- Infinitive verbs can be changed into nouns by capitalising the first letter of the infinitive.
- Infinitive nouns are always neuter; English equivalents end in -ing, e.g., 'das Schwimmen' - 'swimming'.
- In addition to modal verbs and 'werden', a few other verbs don’t need 'zu' before the infinitive in two-verb sentences.
Keywords
Infer - use of knowledge of the surrounding words in a sentence to work out the meaning of an unfamiliar word
Common misconception
Infinitives are always verbs.
Many infinitives can be used as nouns. In German, infinitive nouns start with a capital letter, are always neuter, can be used with or without 'das' & are typically translated into English with the gerund -ing, e.g., '(das) Schwimmen' - 'swimmming'.
Equipment
A mini whiteboard and pen, together with pen and paper for making notes, would be useful, if available.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which verb is not a modal verb?
Q2.Match the German and English.
Q3.Match the German and English.
