KS3 · German · Year 9
Everyday routine: using verbs reflexively, 24-hour clock
Ordinary routines and special events: reflexive verbs
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Your learning goal
I can talk about routine activities and times using the 24-hour clock.
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Everyday routine: using verbs reflexively, 24-hour clock: 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 talk about routine activities and times using the 24-hour clock.
Key learning points
- Regular revisiting of phonic rules supports effective transcription and reading aloud.
- Practising new and known vocabulary regularly supports successful recall.
- For 24-hour clock, we say 'Uhr' instead of ':' and minutes are said as numbers, e.g., 'vierzehn Uhr fünfunddreißig'.
- Open questions are formed by using a question word and inverting the subject and verb, e.g., 'Wann gehen wir ins Kino?'.
Words to know
- open question
- question starting with a wh- word that has more information in the answer than yes/no
Common mistakes
Saying times in 24-hour format in German works in exactly the same way as in English.
Saying the time in 24-hour format uses numbers like in English. The difference is that German needs 'Uhr' - 'o'clock' - between the hour and the minutes, e.g., 21:50 is 'einundzwanzig Uhr fünfzig'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The Learning Cycle 2 speaking task is designed to be open, to allow students to be adventurous with the questions they form. It also provides contingency in that the student answering has to listen to the question carefully to ensure their response is appropriate.