Past events: perfect and imperfect tenses, adjective agreement and comparatives
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Why this why now
Learning from a number of previous units is consolidated here including the imperfect and perfect tenses Pupils extend and deepen their knowledge of word order, vocabulary and adjective endings with longer descriptions of a place they know well and narrating what they saw and did at an event. Numbers and telling the time are revisited and towards the end of the unit, pupils practise their knowledge with a picture description and preparing questions for an interview. The island of Sylt provides cultural context, as well local greetings in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the German perfect tense with haben and sein, with 3 forms of 'you' - du, Sie, man.
- Pupils know how to form questions in the perfect tense.
- Pupils know the imperfect tense (war, hatte, es gab).
- Pupils know numbers and dates.
- Pupils know comparatives.
Threads
Why this why now
Learning from a number of previous units is consolidated here including the imperfect and perfect tenses Pupils extend and deepen their knowledge of word order, vocabulary and adjective endings with longer descriptions of a place they know well and narrating what they saw and did at an event. Numbers and telling the time are revisited and towards the end of the unit, pupils practise their knowledge with a picture description and preparing questions for an interview. The island of Sylt provides cultural context, as well local greetings in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the German perfect tense with haben and sein, with 3 forms of 'you' - du, Sie, man.
- Pupils know how to form questions in the perfect tense.
- Pupils know the imperfect tense (war, hatte, es gab).
- Pupils know numbers and dates.
- Pupils know comparatives.
Past events: perfect and imperfect tenses, adjective agreement and comparatives
This unit revisits the perfect and imperfect tenses, as well as word order 1 and 3. Pupils also revisit numbers and dates, including ordinal numbers and practise telling the time more precisely as they describe and narrate past events.
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