KS3 · German · Year 7
Activities at home: build sentences from infinitive verbs, word order
Life at home: present tense (singular) weak verbs
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Your learning goal
From an infinitive, I can build statements and questions using the correct word order and the correct singular person of the verb.
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Activities at home: build sentences from infinitive verbs, word order: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
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From an infinitive, I can build statements and questions using the correct word order and the correct singular person of the verb.
Key learning points
- A simple German sentence contains a subject (for example I, you) and a verb with the correct ending.
- Extend a sentence by adding a noun after the verb, for example 'Ich spiele Fußball.'
- Adverbs normally come after the verb in German, splitting up the verb and noun.
- Sentences are turned into questions by swapping the verb and subject.
Words to know
- infinitive
- the dictionary form of a verb giving its general meaning
- subject
- who is doing an action, for example 'I' or 'you'
- word order
- the order of words in a sentence
- adverb
- word that describes a verb or adjective
Common mistakes
Word order is the same in German and English.
German sentences containing adverbs have a different word order to English.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Ask students to use card to create their own jigsaw puzzle pieces for the word order tasks, to provide a hands-on activity they can complete alone or in pairs multiple times.