A new experience: perfect tense with 'haben' and 'sein', 'in' and 'auf'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use the perfect tense to understand and write about recent experiences.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Strong past participles are formed by 'ge-' and '–en' surrounding the stem; the stem may have a vowel change, too.
- With certain verbs, often verbs of movement to a destination, the perfect tense is formed with ‘sein’, not 'haben'.
- With movement, prepositions 'in' and 'auf' mean 'into' and 'onto', and are followed by the accusative case.
- When starting sentences with time adverbs to sequence narration, we use word order 2 so that the verb remains second.
Keywords
Perfect tense - 2-verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g., 'I said', 'she played'
Strong past participle - past participle that sandwiches the stem with 'ge-' and ‘-en’ and often changes the stem vowel, e.g., 'geschrieben'
Word order 2 (WO2) - sentence order in which an element other than the subject starts the sentence; verb and subject invert so that the verb remains the second idea
Common misconception
It is only the verb in a sentence that can tell us whether the action of the verb implies movement towards a destination or a static location.
The case (form of the article 'the' or 'a') used after prepositions 'in' and 'auf' tells us whether movement or location are implied, e.g., when the article is in the accusative case ('in den', 'in die', 'ins') it means 'into' and indicates movement.
Teacher tip
For the final writing task, pupils can pick any new experience, but it might useful to steer some pupils towards the three experiences that have featured in this unit's lessons: a first day at a new school, a trip somewhere, or a time they helped out or did volunteer work somewhere.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.'Ich habe __________ Unterricht.'. Choose the correct missing word.
Q2.Match the German and English.
to arrive, arriving
to work, working
to fall, falling
to give, giving
to swim, swimming
to listen (to)
Q3.Match the German and English.
ice, ice cream
meat
vegetables
biscuit
science
lesson, hour
Q4.Order the words to say: 'The choir sang the song in the classroom.'
Q5.Write in English: 'das Essen war gut'.
Q6.Write in German: 'my favourite subject is art'.
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.Which of these are strong past participles?
Q2.Which of these phrases imply movement?
Q3.Order the words to say: 'After school I ate fruit.'
Q4.'Ich bin Klassenzimmer.'. Write the correct word(s) for 'in the'.
Q5.Write in German: 'I went to Berlin'.
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