Year 8

Comparing places and people now and then (Part 1/2)

Year 8

Comparing places and people now and then (Part 1/2)

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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn the imperfect tense of very common verbs 'war', 'hatte' and 'es gab' to describe how people and places used to be and how they are now. We also revise all the sounds of the language.

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10 Questions

Q1.
What does 'jeden Tag' mean?
Correct answer: every day
every month
every week
Q2.
What does 'die Küche' mean?
car
church
Correct answer: kitchen
Q3.
How do you say 'we read'?
sie lesen
Correct answer: wir lesen
wir reiten
Q4.
Which of these is a separable verb?
Correct answer: anrufen
arbeiten
wollen
Q5.
What does 'der Berg' mean?
burger
Correct answer: hill/ mountain
river
Q6.
How do you say 'I ate'? Ich habe.........
gearbeitet
Correct answer: gegessen
getrunken
Q7.
Which of these is the opposite of 'schnell'?
alt
freundlich
Correct answer: langsam
Q8.
Which of these means 'nice'?
Correct answer: nett
neu
nichts
Q9.
Which of these means 'to need'?
Correct answer: brauchen
machen
nehmen
Q10.
Which of these past participles could complete this sentence: 'Ich bin....'?
gearbeitet
Correct answer: geblieben
gesungen

13 Questions

Q1.
Wie sagt man 'Es gab' auf Englisch?
It was
There is/there are
Correct answer: There was/there were
Q2.
How do you say 'I had' in German?
Ich habe
Correct answer: Ich hatte
Ich hattest
Q3.
Which of the following combinations is correct?
Ich bin, du warst. er/sie/es war
Ich war, du war, er/sie/es war
Correct answer: Ich war, du warst, er/sie/es war
Q4.
What is the antonym for 'heiß'?
Correct answer: kalt
weiß
weit
Q5.
Wie sagt man 'cold' auf Deutsch?
kahl
Correct answer: kalt
kühl
Q6.
How do we say 'near' in German?
Correct answer: nah
näher
neh
Q7.
Was bedeutet 'tief' auf Englisch?
Correct answer: deep
narrow
wide
Q8.
Which of the following means 'voll' in English?
empty
Correct answer: full
total
Q9.
Wie sagt man 'wenig' auf Englisch?
Correct answer: few
many
when
Q10.
What does 'früher' mean in English?
early
Correct answer: in former times
late
Q11.
How do we say 'back then' in German?
Correct answer: damals
dann
denn
Q12.
Wie heißt 'links' auf Englisch?
(golf) links
Correct answer: on/to the left
right
Q13.
Wie heißt 'rechts' auf Englisch?
correct
Correct answer: on/to the right
quite