Das Ruhrgebiet: perfect tense irregular verbs, imperfect tense, 'früher'
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can confidently use a range of verbs in the perfect and imperfect tenses, and apply this knowledge to listening, reading, and translation tasks with a historical context.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Form the perfect tense with ‘haben’ or ‘sein’, plus a past participle, placed at the end of the clause.
- The imperfect tense is a single-word past tense, using endings attached to the verb stem. It is mostly written.
- Strong verbs have irregular stems in the imperfect tense. The past participles of some verbs are also irregular.
- The imperfect tense forms ‘hatte’, ‘war’, and ‘es gab’ are often used in spoken as well as written German.
- Use ‘früher’ with a past tense to mean ‘in the past’ or ‘used to’.
Keywords
Perfect tense - past tense formed using either ‘haben’ or ‘sein’ with a past participle, which goes to the end of the clause, e.g., 'ich habe das gemacht'
Imperfect tense - single-word past tense, used mainly to narrate past events in writing, e.g., 'ich machte'
Past participle - verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with 'haben' or 'sein', e.g., 'gemacht', 'gesehen'
Common misconception
The imperfect tense is only ever written.
Whilst the imperfect tense is mainly used to narrate past events in written German, some forms are regularly used in spoken German, such as 'es gab', 'war' and 'hatte'.
Teacher tip
LC1 includes a large amount of Higher-tier grammar (irregular verb stems in the imperfect tense).
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which of these verbs are in the imperfect tense?
Q2.Which preposition is used with the verb 'schützen'?
Q3.Match the German and English.
landscape, countryside
air
employee, co-worker
nature
programme
difficulty
Q4.Match the German and English.
ate
began
went
lay
sat
did, put
Q5.Order the words to say: 'I sold a ticket for the Vienna Film Festival.'
Q6.Write in German: 'We have played in the park.'
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Which statements apply to the imperfect tense?
Q2.Which verb does not have an irregular past participle?
Q3.Order the words to say: 'There was lots of traffic in the past and it was loud.'
Q4.Write in German, using the imperfect tense: 'I won the prize.'
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