KS3 · German · Year 8
The Black Forest: prepositions, perfect tense questions
Past journeys: perfect tense with 'sein'
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Your learning goal
I can ask and answer questions about things that happened or have happened on a past trip.
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The Black Forest: prepositions, perfect tense questions: 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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Download original PowerPoint ↓What you’ll learn
I can ask and answer questions about things that happened or have happened on a past trip.
Key learning points
- Regular practice of vocabulary helps with understanding and effective communication.
- Prepositions are used before nouns and pronouns and show where, when or how something happens.
- The perfect tense is formed with a part of 'haben' or 'sein' and a past participle to say what someone did or has done.
- Questions about past events can be formed by inverting the subject and the part of 'haben' or 'sein'.
Words to know
- preposition
- word that is used before a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun, connecting it to another word
- perfect tense
- German past tense which translates two English past tenses: e.g., 'I did' and 'I have done'
- closed question
- a question that can be answered with 'yes' or 'no'
Common mistakes
The words for 'the' and 'a' are always the same after prepositions.
Prepositions take a specific case, e.g., 'durch' always takes the accusative. Some prepositions take different cases to create different meanings, e.g., 'in' and 'auf' can take the accusative, to show movement to, or the dative, to show location.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Task C1 is an interactive speaking task that requires students to listen and understand in order to be able to respond appropriately, simulating real-life conversations.