Where did you go? How did you travel? Word order, manner before place
Learning outcomes
I can use the manner-place rule when talking about past travel: where I went and how I got there.
I can correctly pronounce long and short [a] and [o].
- Year 8
Where did you go? How did you travel? Word order, manner before place
Learning outcomes
I can use the manner-place rule when talking about past travel: where I went and how I got there.
I can correctly pronounce long and short [a] and [o].
Lesson details
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- [a] and [o] are short when followed by two consonants, but long when followed by single consonants or 'h', ('Bahnhof').
- The perfect tense is formed with a part of 'haben' or 'sein' + a past participle, which goes at the end of the sentence.
- ‘Mit’ + dative is used to describe the manner in which a person travels, and goes before place in a sentence.
Keywords
Perfect tense - a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g., 'I (have) said', 'she (has) played'
Past participle - verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb
Mit - preposition ‘with’, and ‘by’ with transport; expresses the manner in which an action is performed
Common misconception
When talking about travel, where and how you went can be given in any order, as is the case in English.
When using adverbs to say where and how you went in the same sentence, manner (how) always comes before place (where).
Equipment
A mini whiteboard and pen, together with pen and paper for making notes, would be useful, if available.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.'__________ besuchst du deine Tante?'. Choose the correct missing word.
Q2.Order the numbers from smallest to largest.
Q3.Match the German and English.
