What you did for and with others: perfect tense
I can use the perfect tense to say what happened between people in the past.
- Year 9
What you did for and with others: perfect tense
I can use the perfect tense to say what happened between people in the past.
Lesson details
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Key learning points
- Reading is a good way to strengthen word knowledge and can be done in a range of ways.
- The perfect tense is formed with a present tense part of 'haben' or 'sein' and a past participle.
- Many past participles are formed by adding ge- to the start of the verb stem and -t to the end.
- For verbs starting with be-, er- and ver- , the past participle does not have the prefix ge-.
- Strong verbs in the perfect tense form the past participle by adding -en; they often have a vowel change too.
Keywords
Perfect tense - a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g., 'I said', 'she played'
Strong verb (perfect tense) - a verb whose past participle adds ‘en’ and often changes the stem vowel, e.g., 'gesungen'
Common misconception
All German past participles have the prefix ge-.
German verbs starting with be-, ver- and er- do not have the prefix ge- added for the past participle, e.g., 'besucht' - 'visited' or 'verdient' - 'earnt'.
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.Match the German and English.
Q2.Match the German and English.
