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Year 9 - German

Volunteering: revisit perfect tense

Ambitions and destinations: 'mögen', 'möcht-', past tenses

Unit Summary

This unit revisits a broad range of known grammar and vocabulary and present and past tenses, as pupils learn how to use their knowledge in new contexts of personal goals, travel destinations and volunteering.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to form the perfect tense and use it in the context of texts about volunteering.

Key Notes

  • Revisit sound-symbol correspondences to strengthen listening, speaking, reading aloud, and writing skills.
  • Form the perfect tense with a present form of 'haben' or 'sein', plus a past participle, e.g., 'ich habe das gemacht'.
  • The past participle of many verbs is: ge- + verb stem + -t. Some strong verbs use ge- + verb stem + -en.
  • Verbs that start with unstressed prefixes be-, ver-, ent-, er- do not add ge-, e.g., 'er hat besucht'.
  • The past participle 'gefallen' is used with 'sein' for 'fallen' ('to fall') and 'haben' for 'gefallen' ('to please').

Vocabulary To Learn

  • SSC: abbreviation for sound-symbol correspondence, the relationship between letters and their sounds
  • perfect tense: a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g., 'I said', 'she played'
  • past participle: verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb 'haben' or 'sein'

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • The word 'gefallen' always means 'fell'.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

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

Revisit sound-symbol correspondences to strengthen listening, speaking, reading aloud, and writing skills. Form the perfect tense with a present form of 'haben' or 'sein', plus a past participle, e.g., 'ich habe das gemacht'.

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

abbreviation for sound-symbol correspondence, the relationship between letters and their sounds. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.

3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.

Mistake: The word 'gefallen' always means 'fell'. Correction: The past participle of 'fallen' ('to fall') is 'gefallen', as is the past participle of 'gefallen' ('to please'). The difference is that the auxiliary verb 'haben' is used with 'gefallen' (to please), but 'sein' is used with 'fallen' (to fall).

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