KS4 · German · Year 10
Familie und Freunde: translation, comprehension, conversation
My personal world: Familie und Freunde
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can use a variety of vocabulary and grammatical structures to understand and talk about friends and family.
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Familie und Freunde: translation, comprehension, conversation: 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 use a variety of vocabulary and grammatical structures to understand and talk about friends and family.
Key learning points
- We use possessive adjectives frequently when talking about friends and family.
- The adverb ‘gern’ is used with a verb to mean ‘like’; ‘lieber’ with a verb means ‘prefer’.
- Add –er to turn adverbs into comparatives.
- The imperfect tense in German is used most often to narrate past events in writing, so is often used in stories.
- When answering conversation questions, strong answers are full sentences including extra detail, opinions and reasons.
Words to know
- possessive adjective
- shows who something belongs to, e.g., my, your
- comparative
- a form of adjective or adverb used to compare people, things or ideas
- lieber
- comparative adverb meaning 'more gladly', 'rather'
- gern
- adverb meaning 'gladly', 'like to'
- imperfect tense
- verb tense used most often in German to narrate past events in writing
Common mistakes
When answering conversation questions, it’s good to keep answers as short as possible, as in a role-play task.
To give strong answers in conversation, it’s important to answer in full sentences and give details in our answers, including opinions and reasons, where appropriate.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Pupils' spoken performance benefits from repetition of speaking tasks. Pupils could therefore repeat Task C1. It is also helpful for pupils to revisit speaking tasks after a time interval. Teachers might consider bringing back Task C1 questions after a few weeks. Cycle 2 contains Higher grammar.