Past and future goals: revisiting tenses and word order, translation skills
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can understand and translate texts on past achievements and future goals, applying knowledge of perfect and present tenses, present and imperfect modals, and word order.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Frequent reading aloud and transcription can aid fluency in both speaking and comprehension.
- When discussing past goals, use the perfect for most verbs, but the imperfect for modals.
- For future goals, the present tense can be used to express future intentions, with a future time phrase.
- The word 'als' can mean 'when' in the past tense, 'as a' (role), or 'than' in comparisons.
- Translation into and from German requires attention to vocabulary, tenses, word order, accuracy, and careful checking.
Keywords
Sound-symbol correspondence - (SSC) relationship between letters and their sounds
Word order one (WO1) - subject - verb - object - the standard word order in a German sentence, e.g., 'ich lerne Deutsch'
Word order two (WO2) - inverts the subject and verb in a sentence
Word order three (WO3) - after certain conjunctions, the verb is sent to the end of the sentence or clause
Common misconception
To talk about the future in German you have to use the future tense with 'werden'.
In German, you can use the present tense and a future time phrase to talk about the future: 'ich spiele nächste Woche Tennis' - 'I'm playing/going to play tennis next week'. 'Planen' and 'vorhaben' in the present tense also express future intentions.
Teacher tip
Translation tasks in Learning Cycle 3 are suggested as pair-work activities for collaborative working in developing translation skills. The tasks could also be adapted or scaffolded further as required.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.'Das ist meine Lieblings__________.' Choose the correct missing word.
Q2.Match the German and English.
football
body
air
opinion
career
science
Q3.Match the German and English.
to need, needing
to fly, flying
to lead, leading
to cost, costing
to manage, achieve
to know, knowing
Q4.Order the words to say: 'I don't know if they understand everything.'
Q5.Write in English: 'ich hatte eine gute Erfahrung'.
Q6.Write in German: 'a boring weekend'.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Match the words and missing sounds.
[ie]
[ei]
[w]
[v]
[eu]
[au]
Q2.Match each meaning of 'als' to the correct example sentence.
als er jung war
eine Ausbildung als Arzt
mehr als zwei tausend Euro
Q3.Order the words to say: 'I plan to earn lots of money.'
Q4.Write in German: 'I wanted to become very rich'.
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