KS3 · German · Year 9
Volunteering: revisit perfect tense
Ambitions and destinations: 'mögen', 'möcht-', past tenses
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Your learning goal
I can form the perfect tense and use it in the context of texts about volunteering.
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I can form the perfect tense and use it in the context of texts about volunteering.
Key learning points
- Revisit sound-symbol correspondences to strengthen listening, speaking, reading aloud, and writing skills.
- Form the perfect tense with a present form of 'haben' or 'sein', plus a past participle, e.g., 'ich habe das gemacht'.
- The past participle of many verbs is: ge- + verb stem + -t. Some strong verbs use ge- + verb stem + -en.
- Verbs that start with unstressed prefixes be-, ver-, ent-, er- do not add ge-, e.g., ‘er hat besucht’.
- The past participle ‘gefallen’ is used with ‘sein’ for ‘fallen’ (‘to fall’) and ‘haben’ for ‘gefallen’ (‘to please’).
Words to know
- SSC
- abbreviation for sound-symbol correspondence, the relationship between letters and their sounds
- perfect tense
- a verb tense that describes completed actions in the past, e.g., 'I said', 'she played'
- past participle
- verb form that forms the perfect tense, together with the auxiliary verb 'haben' or 'sein'
Common mistakes
The word 'gefallen' always means 'fell'.
The past participle of 'fallen' ('to fall') is 'gefallen', as is the past participle of 'gefallen' ('to please'). The difference is that the auxiliary verb 'haben' is used with 'gefallen' (to please), but 'sein' is used with 'fallen' (to fall).
For parents, carers and teachers
- When practising past participles with students, Task B1 can be adapted or extended to include a card-draw or lottery game to name the past participle from the given infinitive. Further challenge could be added in pair work to create sentences using the past participles + the correct auxiliary verb.