KS4 · German · Year 10
Wie sind deine Familie und Freunde? Adding un-, word order, superlatives
My personal world: Familie und Freunde
Learn it. Recall it. Make it stick.
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Your learning goal
I can use the correct word order when giving my opinion about photos.
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Wie sind deine Familie und Freunde? Adding un-, word order, superlatives: 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 use the correct word order when giving my opinion about photos.
Key learning points
- Add ‘un’ to adjectives for their negative or opposite meaning.
- Use word order two after 'meiner Meinung nach', and adverbs of time, manner, place.
- Use the superlative to express the highest degree of something, e.g., the most.
- To form the superlative, use ‘am’ before the adjective/adverb, and then add ‘-sten’.
- Use word order three after 'ich denke, dass' and 'ich glaube, dass'.
Words to know
- superlative
- a form of adjective or adverb used to express the highest degree of a quality, e.g., the tallest, the most interesting
- word order two
- inverts the subject and verb in a sentence
- word order three
- sends the verb to the end
Common mistakes
I should use word order two after phrases of opinion.
Use word order two after 'meiner Meinung nach' and word order three after 'ich denke, dass' and 'ich glaube, dass'.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Learning Cycle 3 and exit quiz questions 2 and 6 are Higher only.