What you want to and will do: future tense singular (will) vs 'will' (want to)
Learning outcomes
I understand how to form the future tense using 'werden', and I can use context to decipher words that have more than one meaning.
I can confidently pronounce a range of SSCs to enhance my spoken fluency.
- Year 8
What you want to and will do: future tense singular (will) vs 'will' (want to)
Learning outcomes
I understand how to form the future tense using 'werden', and I can use context to decipher words that have more than one meaning.
I can confidently pronounce a range of SSCs to enhance my spoken fluency.
Lesson details
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Key learning points
- Regular practice of sound-symbol correspondences helps to improve fluency.
- Some German words have multiple meanings. Context helps you work out which meaning is intended.
- The present tense of 'werden' with an infinitive at sentence end forms the future, meaning ‘will do’ or ‘going to do’.
- 'Werden' is irregular. The 'ich' form of 'werden' is 'werde', 'du' form 'wirst', 'sie, er, es' form 'wird'.
- The German 'will' comes from 'wollen' and means 'want'. Do not confuse this with the future tense.
Keywords
Future tense - tense used to refer to future time, e.g., 'I will do'
Werden - irregular verb meaning 'to become', used with a 2nd verb in the infinitive to form the future tense in German
Common misconception
The German 'Ich will' means 'I will'.
The German 'will' comes from 'wollen' and means 'want'. Do not confuse this with the future tense. 'Ich werde' means 'I will'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the German and English.
Q2.Match the German and English.
Q3.Match the German and English.
Q4.The modal verb 'sollen' means __________ and is used to express obligation, expectation or probability.
Q5.How many of the two sounds in the sound-symbol correspondence [kn] are pronounced in German?
Q6.Match the German and English.
