Year 10 - German
Das Ruhrgebiet: perfect tense irregular verbs, imperfect tense, 'früher'
Travel and tourism: Reiseziele
Study Hub
Study Guides
This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Unit Summary
This consolidation unit revisits all of the grammar covered in previous units in the context of travel destinations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Pupils learn to use 'man' in order to avoid the passive, and also learn 'sein' and 'ihr' in nominative, accusative and dative to mean 'its'.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to 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.
Key Notes
- 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'.
Vocabulary To Learn
- 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 Mistakes To Avoid
- The imperfect tense is only ever written.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
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.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. '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'. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: The imperfect tense is only ever written. Correction: 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'.
More Lessons In This Unit
- 16 Bundesländer: numbers, articles following 'in', 'zu', 'nach' Study Guide
- Badeschiff Berlin: possessive adjectives, modal verbs, 2-verb structures Study Guide
- Berlin: 'wissen' vs 'kennen' Study Guide
- Bern: 'es gibt' vs 'da sind', determiners and prepositions Study Guide
- Die Sächsische Schweiz: 'man' + verb, 'Lieblings-' and 'Haupt-' Study Guide
- Die Wuppertaler Schwebebahn: past tense, past participles, time-manner-place Study Guide
- Düsseldorf: past participles of strong and irregular verbs, questions Study Guide
- Eine Reise: present tense, separable verbs, possessive adjectives Study Guide
- Frankfurter Buchmesse: uncountable quantifiers, abstract adjectival neuter nouns Study Guide
- Graz: word order rules, possessive adjectives Study Guide
- Reisen: extending vocabulary Study Guide
- Romantische Straße: future tense, present tense with adverbs to express future Study Guide
Browse all guides in the Year 10 German guide library.