GERMAN REGULAR VERBS PLUPERFECT TENSE

DAZ DAF INTERMEDIATE GERMAN ADVANCED GERMAN PLUPERFECT TENSE CONJUGATION DRILLS

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25 high-frequency regular German verbs, 150 conjugation questions, 3 differentiated conjugation challenges, answer key & verb lists, ideal for intermediate German into advanced intermediate 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.

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.

The resource is as follows:

Two alphabetical verb reference lists German-English and English-German

Three conjugation challenges, each with 50 individual conjugations:

Conjugation Challenge 1: each verb conjugated in German across a range of pronouns, with students writing the corresponding English verb conjugation

Conjugation Challenge 3 gives the infinitive of each verb in German, specifying the target pronoun. Students write the corresponding verb conjugation in German

Conjugation Challenge 3 students write the corresponding German verb conjugation, and its infinitive, from an English prompt

Notes and Next Steps sheet, which encourages students to think about how their understanding of German conjugation works, what progress they have made, what their targets for improvement might realistically be, and what they might reasonably do in order to meet those targets

answer key

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