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Year 8 - German

A music festival: perfect and imperfect, adjective endings

Past events: perfect and imperfect tenses, adjective agreement and comparatives

Unit Summary

This unit revisits the perfect and imperfect tenses, as well as word order 1 and 3. Pupils also revisit numbers and dates, including ordinal numbers and practise telling the time more precisely as they describe and narrate past events.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to use adjectives and different tenses to describe experiences at a music festival.

Key Notes

  • The gender of a noun needs to be learnt, together with its meaning, spelling and sound.
  • Nominative adjective endings are used when the noun is the subject, the person or thing doing the action.
  • Accusative adjective endings are used when the noun is the direct object, directly receiving the action.
  • 'War', 'hatte' and 'es gab' are imperfect tense verbs used to describe what things were like.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • adjective: word that gives information about a noun
  • imperfect tense: tense used to describe how things were or used to be in the past, or to say what was happening

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Adjectives only change their spelling according to the gender of the noun they describe.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.

The gender of a noun needs to be learnt, together with its meaning, spelling and sound. Nominative adjective endings are used when the noun is the subject, the person or thing doing the action.

2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'adjective'

word that gives information about a noun. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.

3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.

Mistake: Adjectives only change their spelling according to the gender of the noun they describe. Correction: Adjectives change their spelling to match both the gender of the noun and the case, e.g., 'das ist ein lustiger Hund', 'ich habe einen lustigen Hund'.

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