KS3 · German · Year 8
A music festival: perfect and imperfect, adjective endings
Past events: perfect and imperfect tenses, adjective agreement and comparatives
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Your learning goal
I can use adjectives and different tenses to describe experiences at a music festival.
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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can use adjectives and different tenses to describe experiences at a music festival.
Key learning points
- 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.
Words to know
- 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
Adjectives only change their spelling according to the gender of the noun they describe.
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'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Teachers may wish to extend students' cultural awareness of German music festivals by sourcing suitable materials such as images and videos online. Festivals that can be searched for include Rock am Ring, Wave-Gotik-Treffen and Parookaville.