KS4 · German · Year 10
Die Ferien: perfect tense with adverbs
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Your learning goal
I can use time adverbials in the perfect tense to add more detail to discussions about holidays.
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I can use time adverbials in the perfect tense to add more detail to discussions about holidays.
Key learning points
- Use time adverbials 'schon', '(noch) nie', 'noch', 'schon einmal' with the perfect tense to provide more information.
- In a role play, the response to each prompt should contain at least one verb, but still be relatively brief.
- In a role play, the response should match the tense of the prompt.
Words to know
- time adverbial
- adverbs or adverbial phrases which denote time; for example, 'nie', 'schon', 'noch nicht'
- perfect tense
- past tense formed with ‘sein’ or ‘haben’ and a past participle
- role play
- task in which the student responds to several prompts in the format of a role play
Common mistakes
I can answer a role-play question with one or two words.
Role-play questions need to be answered in full sentences with at least one verb.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Pupils could be further challenged in Task A2 by asking them to incude additional grammatical features from this unit, such as word order 2, 'jed-', 'nächst-', 'letzt-', negation with 'sondern'.