Past lives: perfect and imperfect tenses
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Why this why now
This unit extends pupils' knowledge of the German perfect tense with haben and sein to include all persons including 'ihr'. Past participle formation is consolidated as pupils recall and practise stem change and other variations. Pupils apply this in the context of studying lives of famous German speakers past and present. The imperfect tense is revisited, together with word order 3, and 'bevor', 'nachdem' and 'als' (meaning when in the past tense). Towards the end of the unit this is practised in the context of past experiences in former East and West Germany.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the German perfect tense of weak and strong verbs of haben and sein.
- Pupils know the imperfect tense - hatte, war, es gab.
- Pupils know how to ask questions in the perfect tense.
- Pupils know word order 3 with conjunctions and single verb structures.
- Pupils know compound words.
- Pupils know the prepositions 'vor' and 'nach' with the dative case.
- Pupils know the German sound-symbol correspondences.
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Why this why now
This unit extends pupils' knowledge of the German perfect tense with haben and sein to include all persons including 'ihr'. Past participle formation is consolidated as pupils recall and practise stem change and other variations. Pupils apply this in the context of studying lives of famous German speakers past and present. The imperfect tense is revisited, together with word order 3, and 'bevor', 'nachdem' and 'als' (meaning when in the past tense). Towards the end of the unit this is practised in the context of past experiences in former East and West Germany.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Pupils know the German perfect tense of weak and strong verbs of haben and sein.
- Pupils know the imperfect tense - hatte, war, es gab.
- Pupils know how to ask questions in the perfect tense.
- Pupils know word order 3 with conjunctions and single verb structures.
- Pupils know compound words.
- Pupils know the prepositions 'vor' and 'nach' with the dative case.
- Pupils know the German sound-symbol correspondences.
Past lives: perfect and imperfect tenses
This unit revisits past tenses. The perfect tense is consolidated as variations on past participle formation are practised. The imperfect tense (war, hatte, es gab) is revisited, with question formation and word order 3 conjunctions. Pupils learn how to say calendar years in German.
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