GERMAN SEPARABLE VERBS PLUPERFECT TENSE

GCSE GERMAN PLUPERFECT TENSE SEPARABLE VERBS ideal for advanced KS4 German and KS5 German students who have a sound baseline understanding of conjugation and tense in German, are working regularly with the notion of past tense in German, and distinguishing between verbs that are conjugated with either haben or sein in the perfect and pluperfect tense. It’s actually really useful to introduce the pluperfect tense in German fairly closely with the perfect tense, as the patterns are identical, other than the auxiliary tense, and it allows students to compare and contrast the tenses, and to practise both fairly simultaneously - in my experience, students do not confuse or mix up the tenses when they’re learning and using them together.
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The workbook focuses on the correct conjugation of verbs, rather than usage, but I find it useful to remind students of a number of things when focusing on or revising tense and verb conjugation. For example with the pluperfect tense, students need to have a good grasp of the relevant auxiliary in the imperfect tense, and to get used to ensuring that the past participle is situated at the end of the clause or sentence. Forming the past participle of a whole range of verb groups follows a certain pattern, which students are able to identify and predict the more they work with conjugation.
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The resource is structured as follows:
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Two alphabetical verb reference lists: German-English and English-German.
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Three conjugation challenges, each with 50 individual conjugations:
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Quick Conjugation Challenge 1: each verb conjugated in German across a range of pronouns, with students writing the corresponding English verb conjugation.
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Quick Conjugation Challenge 2: gives the infinitive of each verb in German, specifying the target pronoun. Students write the corresponding verb conjugation in German.
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Quick Conjugation Challenge 3: students write the corresponding German verb conjugation, and its infinitive, from an English prompt.
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Notes and Next Steps
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answer key
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Try this quick conjugation workbook sampler to see if it’s the kind of learning activity that will work well for your students - it’s free to download here:
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GERMAN QUICK CONJUGATION SAMPLER
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/german-conjugation-practice-sampler-12154187
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