What you did when on Sylt: perfect tense, telling the time: half past the hour
Learning outcomes
I can talk about what happened in the past and give the time it happened using ‘halb’ to mean half past.
I can recognise and pronounce the different sounds made by [y].
- Year 8
What you did when on Sylt: perfect tense, telling the time: half past the hour
Learning outcomes
I can talk about what happened in the past and give the time it happened using ‘halb’ to mean half past.
I can recognise and pronounce the different sounds made by [y].
Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- [y] commonly sounds like [ü], e.g., 'typisch'. In English words like 'Yoga' and 'Baby', [y] is pronounced as in English.
- Words ending in -ic/-ical in English often end in -isch in German, e.g., 'typisch'.
- There are three different ways to say 'you' in German: 'du', 'Sie' and 'man'.
- The perfect tense is made up of a part of ‘haben’ or ‘sein’ in the present tense, and a past participle.
- Half past the hour is expressed as half to the next hour in German, e.g., 9:30 is ‘halb zehn’.
Keywords
[y] - pronounced as in 'typisch'
Perfect tense - a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g., 'I said', 'she played'
Common misconception
Giving the time as half past the hour works the same in German as it does in English, e.g., ‘halb neun’ is 'half past nine'.
In German, half past is expressed as half of the next hour, so 'half past nine' is 'halb zehn', or 'half way to ten', the next hour.
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 word means 'perhaps'?
Q2.Match the German and English.
Q3.Match the German and English.
Q4.Order the words to say: 'He bought the tickets.'
Q5.Write in English: 'ich hatte Durst'.
Q6.Write in German: 'I went to bed'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.In which words is [y] pronounced like [ü]?
Q2.Write the word 'symbolic' in German.
Q3.'Jun kommt um halb drei an.' What time is Jun arriving?
Q4.Match the German and English.
