Narrate a new experience: perfect tense with 'haben'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use the perfect tense with 'haben' to understand and narrate a short sequence of past events.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- The German alphabet has 26 standard letters, like English, and four additional characters [ä], [ö], [ü] and ß.
- The umlaut letters [ä], [ö], [ü] sound very different from [a], [o] and [u] and require practice.
- Sentence building is the process of creating meaningful sentences using knowledge of both vocabulary and grammar.
- The perfect tense with most verbs uses the present tense of the verb ‘haben’ together with a past participle.
- For strong past participles, ge- and –en sandwich the stem; the stem may have a vowel change, too.
Keywords
Umlaut - pair of dots ( ¨ ) placed over the vowels a, o, u in German to indicate a change in pronunciation
Sentence building - creating meaningful sentences using knowledge of both vocabulary and grammar
Perfect tense - 2-verb tense that describes completed actions in the past e.g., 'I said', 'she played'
Common misconception
If a verb is 'strong', its past participle always has a vowel change.
In German, a strong verb has a stem change in one or more tenses. Some strong verbs have a stem change in the present tense but not in the perfect tense, e.g., 'sehen' - 'er, sie, es sieht' - 'hat gesehen'.
Teacher tip
It is always helpful to encourage pupils to challenge themselves to complete speaking and writing tasks from memory, checking their notes only when they need to, and making a note of the trickier words they haven't yet mastered.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is the German word for 'vegetables'?
Q2.Match each English word to the correct German translation.
Kunst
Garten
Schule
Stunde
Q3.Put the words below in the correct order to make a past tense sentence. Start with 'ich'.
Q4.Look at the following German sentence and decide what tense it is, before translating it into English: 'Die Sängerin hat gesungen.'
Q5.Match the subjects to the correct form of 'haben'.
habe
hast
hat
Q6.Complete the following sentence by writing the correct past participle of the verb 'zeigen' (to show): 'Sie hat die Karte .'
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
Q1.Match each German letter to how it is usually pronounced.
a bit like a in 'bear'
a bit like i in 'bird'
a bit like u in "music"
sounds like ss
Q2.Which of these is a correct perfect tense sentence using a weak verb?
Q3.Complete the following sentence with the correct strong past participle of 'finden': 'Du hast den Keks .'
Q4.Put the words below in the correct order to say: 'He has cooked a delicious meal.'.
Q5.Complete the following sentence with the correct past participle of the verb 'sehen' ('to see'): 'Ich habe den strengen Naturwissenschaftlehrer .'
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