KS3 · German · Year 7
Activities at home: verb infinitives and singular persons
Life at home: present tense (singular) weak verbs
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Your learning goal
I can recognise regular verbs in the infinitive and singular persons, use reference materials to identify unknown words, and translate accurately from German to English.
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Activities at home: verb infinitives and singular persons: 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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I can recognise regular verbs in the infinitive and singular persons, use reference materials to identify unknown words, and translate accurately from German to English.
Key learning points
- [ch] is a hard sound after a, o, u and au, and soft after other sounds.
- The infinitive form of a verb is found in the dictionary and usually ends in 'en'.
- Singular persons of regular (weak) verbs in the present tense can be recognised by the endings -e, -st or -t.
Words to know
- [ch]
- pronounced soft as in 'ich' or hard as in 'Buch'
- infinitive
- the dictionary form of a verb which gives its general meaning
- word order
- the order of words in a sentence
Common mistakes
Word order is the same in German and English.
Word order is not always the same in German and English. Pay close attention to the position of different sentence parts (subject, verb, nouns, adverbs).
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task A2 could be completed as a whole class oral activity to practise spelling in German and 'Wie schreibt man...?', or for a harder task, remove some more of the letters.