Die Ferien: perfect tense with adverbs
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can use time adverbials in the perfect tense to add more detail to discussions about holidays.
Vocabulary and transcripts for this lessons
Key learning points
- Use time adverbials 'schon', '(noch) nie', 'noch', 'schon einmal' with the perfect tense to provide more information.
- In a role play, the response to each prompt should contain at least one verb, but still be relatively brief.
- In a role play, the response should match the tense of the prompt.
Keywords
Time adverbial - adverbs or adverbial phrases which denote time; for example, 'nie', 'schon', 'noch nicht'
Perfect tense - past tense formed with ‘sein’ or ‘haben’ and a past participle
Role play - task in which the student responds to several prompts in the format of a role play
Common misconception
I can answer a role-play question with one or two words.
Role-play questions need to be answered in full sentences with at least one verb.
Teacher tip
Pupils could be further challenged in Task A2 by asking them to incude additional grammatical features from this unit, such as word order 2, 'jed-', 'nächst-', 'letzt-', negation with 'sondern'.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Match the German and the English.
divorced
higher
bad
further
from something
Q2.Match the German and the English.
worth, worthy of
rather
end
not at all
Q3.Which word best completes the following sentence? We use the perfect tense to describe events in the ...
Q4.Select the sentences in the perfect tense.
Q5.Put this perfect tense sentence in the correct order.
Q6.Fill in the gap to complete the following sentence: 'Er nach Deutschland gefahren.'
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Match the German and English.
already
never
not yet
ever (in questions)
Q2.'Say who you went to school with.' Which tense would you use to respond to this prompt?
Q3.Which responses include a verb?
Q4.Sort the words below into the correct order to form the following sentence: 'Have you ever played handball?'
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