Volunteering: revisit perfect tense
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can form the perfect tense and use it in the context of texts about volunteering.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Revisit sound-symbol correspondences to strengthen listening, speaking, reading aloud, and writing skills.
- Form the perfect tense with a present form of 'haben' or 'sein', plus a past participle, e.g., 'ich habe das gemacht'.
- The past participle of many verbs is: ge- + verb stem + -t. Some strong verbs use ge- + verb stem + -en.
- Verbs that start with unstressed prefixes be-, ver-, ent-, er- do not add ge-, e.g., ‘er hat besucht’.
- The past participle ‘gefallen’ is used with ‘sein’ for ‘fallen’ (‘to fall’) and ‘haben’ for ‘gefallen’ (‘to please’).
Keywords
SSC - abbreviation for sound-symbol correspondence, the relationship between letters and their sounds
Perfect tense - a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g., 'I said', 'she played'
Past participle - verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb 'haben' or 'sein'
Common misconception
The word 'gefallen' always means 'fell'.
The past participle of 'fallen' ('to fall') is 'gefallen', as is the past participle of 'gefallen' ('to please'). The difference is that the auxiliary verb 'haben' is used with 'gefallen' (to please), but 'sein' is used with 'fallen' (to fall).
Teacher tip
When practising past participles with students, Task B1 can be adapted or extended to include a card-draw or lottery game to name the past participle from the given infinitive. Further challenge could be added in pair work to create sentences using the past participles + the correct auxiliary verb.
Content guidance
Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering
Supervision
Adult supervision recommended
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Write 'OK' in German.
Q2.Match the German and English.
law
reason
hair
July
desire
point
Q3.Match the German and English.
to help, helping
to learn, learning
to allow, allowing
to exeprience, experiencing
to lay, put
to earn, earning
Q4.Order the words to say: 'Yesterday we spoke on the phone.'
Q5.Write in English: 'der Angriff war gefährlich'.
Q6.Write in German: 'What is your favourite hobby?'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Match the words to their missing sounds.
[ä]
[ü]
[ie]
[ei]
[ch]
[st]
Q2.Match the English and German.
Ich bin in den Fluss gefallen.
Der Fluss hat mir gefallen.
Der Fluss gefällt mir.
Ich falle in den Fluss.
Q3.Order the words to say: 'I went to school but I forgot my homework.'
Q4.Write in German: 'I bought a uniform'.
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