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Year 8 German Study Guides
Every lesson below links to a pupil-friendly study guide with key notes, vocabulary, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
A party: separable verbs
An exchange: present tense, 'haben' and 'sein', formal 'Sie' vs 'du', cases
- An exchange: 'haben' and 'sein', 'Sie' vs 'du', infinitive clauses with 'zu' Study Guide
- An exchange: present 'haben' and 'sein', 'Sie' (formal) vs 'du' Study Guide
- Ask for spelling: the alphabet, nouns, articles and the accusative case Study Guide
- Ask the meaning of unknown words: nouns, gender, articles, nominative case Study Guide
Berlin: numbers and time
- Berlin in numbers: numbers 32-100, direct object pronouns 'mich' and 'dich' Study Guide
- In Berlin and beyond: numbers 32-100, present tense of strong verbs Study Guide
- In Berlin: present and past, 1st person singular and plural, 'um...Uhr' for time Study Guide
- In Berlin: present and past, 1st person singular and plural, 'von' + dative Study Guide
Erlkönig (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe): read and respond to a poem
Family and friends: verbs with indirect objects
Holidays: present and past, perfect tense with 'haben'
- Last summer: perfect tense weak and strong verbs, 1st and 3rd persons singular Study Guide
- Last summer: singular perfect tense with weak and some strong verbs Study Guide
- This summer: perfect tense weak verbs 1st person singular, 'in' (dative) Study Guide
- This summer: present vs past, perfect tense weak verbs 1st person singular Study Guide
In the news: using prepositions 'an', 'auf', 'gegen', 'laut'
Last year or this year: present and perfect tenses
Likes and dislikes: adverb 'gern'
Making plans: present and future tenses
- Future plans: future tense 'werden' + infinitive vs 'planen' + 'zu' + infinitive Study Guide
- Plans for the week ahead: modal verbs in present tense (future meaning) Study Guide
- Plans for this weekend: present tense (future meaning), 'nach' vs 'zu' (dative) Study Guide
- What you want to and will do: future tense singular (will) vs 'will' (want to) Study Guide
- Who is supposed to do what? Modal verbs, two-verb structures, question words Study Guide
- Who should do what? Meanings of 'sollen', 'müssen', 'dürfen' Study Guide
My plans: future tense
New experiences: perfect tense with 'haben' and 'sein'
New home: adjective endings in nominative, accusative and dative
- A house move: adjective endings with definite articles (accusative) Study Guide
- A new home and new neighbours: word patterns and word order Study Guide
- A new home: dative adjective endings with definite and indefinite articles Study Guide
- A new neighbourhood: accusative and dative prepositions Study Guide
Past events: perfect and imperfect tenses, adjective agreement and comparatives
- A music festival: perfect and imperfect tenses, question forming Study Guide
- A music festival: perfect and imperfect, adjective endings Study Guide
- What you did when on Sylt: perfect tense, telling the time: half past the hour Study Guide
- Where you went and where you were: 'in', 'an', 'auf', time with 'vor' and 'nach' Study Guide
Past journeys: perfect tense with 'sein'
- The Black Forest: prepositions, perfect tense questions Study Guide
- The Black Forest: singular perfect tense with 'haben' and 'sein', 'durch' Study Guide
- Where did you go? How did you travel? Word order, manner before place Study Guide
- Where I went: singular perfect tense 'sein' vs 'haben', 'mit' + dative Study Guide
Then and now: imperfect tense and comparatives
- Places and people: now or then? Imperfect tense: 'war', 'hatte', 'gab' Study Guide
- Then and now: comparatives and plurals Study Guide
- Then and now: the comparative Study Guide
- This year and in the past: perfect tense with 'früher' and 'noch nicht' Study Guide
- What was it like then? Imperfect tense: 'war, hatte, gab, damals, früher' Study Guide
What we like and prefer doing: separable verbs, 'gern' and 'lieber'
Who am I? Adjective agreement, 'weil' and 'denn'
- Appearance: adjective agreement (accusative) Study Guide
- Describe others: adjective agreement (accusative), female person nouns with -in Study Guide
- Explain likes and dislikes: 'weil' vs 'denn', word order after 'weil' Study Guide
- Opinions and reasons: 'weil' vs 'denn', word order after 'weil' Study Guide
- Things I like: nominative adjective agreement, definite and indefinite articles Study Guide
- What makes me happy: adjective agreement, read and respond to a poem in writing Study Guide