Year 10 - German
Die Wuppertaler Schwebebahn: past tense, past participles, time-manner-place
Travel and tourism: Reiseziele
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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 form the perfect tense of different types of verbs and describe a past trip using adverbs of time, manner and place.
Key Notes
- German uses the perfect tense to describe most past events, but English uses simple past for specific, completed events.
- Form the perfect tense with a present tense of 'haben' or 'sein', plus a past participle at the end of the sentence.
- Weak verbs form past participles by sandwiching the verb stem with 'ge-' and '-t'. '-ieren' verbs don't add 'ge-'.
- Strong verbs form past participles with 'ge-' and '-en'. Separable prefixes go before 'ge-'.
- The order of adverbs in a sentence is time ('um 6 Uhr'), manner ('mit Freunden'), place ('im Haus').
Vocabulary To Learn
- perfect tense: a past tense formed with the present tense of 'sein' or 'haben' and a past participle
- past participle: verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb
- time, manner, place (TMP): the order of adverbs in a German sentence - time before manner before place, abbreviated to TMP
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- All verbs use the auxiliary verb 'haben' to form the perfect tense.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
German uses the perfect tense to describe most past events, but English uses simple past for specific, completed events. Form the perfect tense with a present tense of 'haben' or 'sein', plus a past participle at the end of the sentence.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'perfect tense'
a past tense formed with the present tense of 'sein' or 'haben' and a past participle. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: All verbs use the auxiliary verb 'haben' to form the perfect tense. Correction: A small number of verbs use the auxiliary verb 'sein' to form the perfect tense. These verbs usually refer to movement or a change of physical state.
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- Berlin: 'wissen' vs 'kennen' Study Guide
- Bern: 'es gibt' vs 'da sind', determiners and prepositions Study Guide
- Das Ruhrgebiet: perfect tense irregular verbs, imperfect tense, 'früher' Study Guide
- Die Sächsische Schweiz: 'man' + verb, 'Lieblings-' and 'Haupt-' 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
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