KS4 · German · Year 10
Kleine Schule: time, manner, place, present tense with gern, lieber, am liebsten
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Your learning goal
I can use adverbs of time, manner and place to talk about a school trip, and adverbs of preference to discuss differences between large and small schools.
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I can use adverbs of time, manner and place to talk about a school trip, and adverbs of preference to discuss differences between large and small schools.
Key learning points
- Adverbs follow the order time, manner, place; using TMP with all tenses can work well to describe sequences of events.
- Any adverb can start a sentence for emphasis. In this case, use word order 2 and order the remaining adverbs using TMP.
- Use a verb with ‘gern’ to mean ‘like’, ‘lieber’ to mean ‘prefer’ and ‘am liebsten’ to mean ‘most preferably of all’.
- Use the adverbs gern, lieber, am liebsten to develop and extend opinions on a range of themes.
Words to know
- time, manner, place (TMP)
- the order of adverbs in a German sentence - time before manner before place, abbreviated to TMP
- gern
- adverb meaning 'gladly', 'like to'
- lieber
- comparative adverb meaning 'more gladly', 'rather'
- am liebsten
- superlative adverb meaning 'most preferably', 'most of all'
Common mistakes
Time, manner, place adverbs must always be used in the order TMP.
When using WO1, the order TMP applies. However, each of the elements can be used at the beginning of a sentence for emphasis. In that case, use WO2 and put the remaining elements in the order time before manner before place.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Give students plenty of practice in handling and rearranging the elements in present, past and future tenses. The grammar 'am liebsten' in Learning Cycle 2 is Higher tier, but the resources are accessible and adaptable for Foundation grammar 'gern' and 'lieber'.