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- Year 11
- AQA
Mein Schultag: perfect tense, conversation (AQA)
I can categorise vocabulary to aid mastery, use the German perfect tense accurately and take part confidently in a conversation about my school life.
- Year 11
- AQA
Mein Schultag: perfect tense, conversation (AQA)
I can categorise vocabulary to aid mastery, use the German perfect tense accurately and take part confidently in a conversation about my school life.
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Key learning points
- The perfect tense in German takes a present tense form of the auxiliary verb and a past participle.
- Weak verb past participles sandwich the stem with 'ge-' and '-t'. Strong verbs use 'ge- and -'en'.
- Put separable prefixes before the 'ge-', but there is no 'ge-' before inseparable prefixes or '-ieren' verbs.
- Reflexive pronouns follow the auxiliary in WO1 and the subject in WO2. The German perfect has 2 English translations.
- Use verb clauses in a conversation response, and extend answers with a different tense, subject, opinions and reasons.
Keywords
Auxiliary verb - a form of 'haben' or 'sein' used to form the perfect tense
Past participle - verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb
Weak verb (perfect tense) - verb whose past participle sandwiches the stem with 'ge-' and '-t'
Strong verb (perfect tense) - verb whose past participle sandwiches the stem with 'ge-' and ‘-en’ and often changes the stem vowel
Common misconception
All German past participles start with 'ge-'.
Verbs starting with inseparable prefixes like 'be-', 'er-', 'ent-' and 'ver-' do not need 'ge'. Neither do verbs ending in '-ieren', e.g., 'interessiert'. Separable prefixes appear before 'ge-' in the perfect tense, e.g., 'aufgemacht', 'eingeführt'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which word is a synonym for 'Ding'?
Q2.Match the German and English.
brought
thought
done
closed
died
pulled, moved
Q3.Match the German and English.
type, kind
relation, relationship
disadvantage
freedom
hope
future