KS4 · German · Year 10
Vor und nach der Schule: word order with 'nachdem' and 'bevor'
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Your learning goal
I can use prepositions ‘vor’ and ‘nach’ and conjunctions ‘bevor’ and ‘nachdem’ in the context of routines and activities before and after school.
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I can use prepositions ‘vor’ and ‘nach’ and conjunctions ‘bevor’ and ‘nachdem’ in the context of routines and activities before and after school.
Key learning points
- 'Vor' and 'nach' are prepositions used with nouns to express 'before' and 'after'. They take the dative case.
- 'Bevor' and 'nachdem' are conjunctions meaning 'before' and 'after' and link two clauses.
- 'Bevor' and 'nachdem' are followed by word order 3 and send the verb to the end of the clause.
- In two-verb structures, the finite verb, not the past participle or infinitive verb, are sent to the end of the clause.
- ‘Bevor’ and ‘nachdem’ can also start a sentence, creating verb-comma-verb word order.
Words to know
- noun
- word for a person, place, or thing which has a grammatical gender in German
- clause
- a group of words, consisting of a subject and a finite form of a verb
- preposition
- a word that is used before a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun, connecting it to another word
- conjunction
- word that connects ideas between clauses in a sentence
- word order 3
- (WO3) after certain conjunctions, the verb is sent to the end of the sentence or clause
Common mistakes
'Vor' and 'bevor' and 'nach' and 'nachdem' are interchangeable because they mean 'before' and 'after'.
'Vor' and 'nach' are prepositions and are followed by a noun, 'bevor' and 'nachdem' are conjunctions which link clauses and trigger word order 3.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Word order 3 after conjunctions with single verb structures is Foundation tier and Higher tier with 2-verb structures. Mini whiteboards could be used effectively for Task B2 to enable quick feedback and correction.