Past lives: perfect and imperfect tenses
Why this, why now
This unit revisits past tenses. The perfect tense is consolidated as variations on past participle formation are practised. The imperfect tense (war, hatte, es gab) is revisited, with question formation and word order 3 conjunctions. Pupils learn how to say calendar years in German.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ardaydu waa inay yaqaanaan aasaaska maadada.
- Ardaydu waa inay awoodaan inay raacaan tilmaamo fudud.
Unit 3 / 15
Past lives: perfect and imperfect tenses
This unit revisits past tenses. The perfect tense is consolidated as variations on past participle formation are practised. The imperfect tense (war, hatte, es gab) is revisited, with question formation and word order 3 conjunctions. Pupils learn how to say calendar years in German.
5 lessons- Famous lives: 'als' as 'when' with the past tense
- Famous German speakers: 'bevor' and 'nachdem', word order
- Childhood experiences: nouns, past tense, conjunctions
- What did they do then? Perfect, imperfect 'war', 'hatte', 'gab', compound nouns
- What you used to do: perfect tense with 'ihr' (you, familiar pl.) and 'früher'