The Black Forest: prepositions, perfect tense questions
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can ask and answer questions about things that happened or have happened on a past trip.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Regular practice of vocabulary helps with understanding and effective communication.
- Prepositions are used before nouns and pronouns and show where, when or how something happens.
- The perfect tense is formed with a part of 'haben' or 'sein' and a past participle to say what someone did or has done.
- Questions about past events can be formed by inverting the subject and the part of 'haben' or 'sein'.
Keywords
Preposition - word that is used before a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun, connecting it to another word
Perfect tense - German past tense which translates two English past tenses: e.g., 'I did' and 'I have done'
Closed question - a question that can be answered with 'yes' or 'no'
Common misconception
The words for 'the' and 'a' are always the same after prepositions.
Prepositions take a specific case, e.g., 'durch' always takes the accusative. Some prepositions take different cases to create different meanings, e.g., 'in' and 'auf' can take the accusative, to show movement to, or the dative, to show location.
Teacher tip
Task C1 is an interactive speaking task that requires students to listen and understand in order to be able to respond appropriately, simulating real-life conversations.
Equipment
A mini whiteboard and pen, together with pen and paper for making notes, would be useful, if available.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these words means 'thus, in this way'?
Q2.Order the numbers from smallest to largest.
Q3.Match the German and English.
August
July
culture
percent
tour
Turkey
Q4.Match the German and English.
to visit, visiting
to contain, containing
to experience, experiencing
to eat, eating
to fly, flying
to drink, drinking
Q5.Write in English: 'Es hat Spaß gemacht.'
Q6.Write in German: 'He bought new clothes.'
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Match the German and English.
fresh
through
to swim, swimming
to climb, climbing
to increase, climb
to (go on a) walk, hike
Q2.'Ich gehe heute in Wald.'. Write the correct word for 'the'.
Q3.Order the words to form a question.
Q4.Write in German: 'She stayed.'
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