Pupil outcome: I can use modal verbs in the imperfect tense to talk about work and studying. Key learning points: - [o] and [ö] are long when followed by no consonants or only one consonant. - To form the imperfect of singular modal...

Pupil outcome: I can use a variety of vocabulary and grammatical structures to understand and talk about friends and family. Key learning points: - We use possessive adjectives frequently when talking about friends and family. - The...

Pupil outcome: I can write about different places to live using a writing frame for support. Key learning points: - Moi, toi, lui, elle, nous, vous, eux, elles are used to mean me, you, him, her, us, you and them as emphatic pronouns. -...

Pupil outcome: I can successfully combine imperfect and present tenses to compare and contrast past and current activities in speaking, and I can accurately translate the imperfect tense into English. Key learning points: - The imperfect...

Pupil outcome: I can use the imperfect, preterite and past continuous tenses in the context of protests and social movements. Key learning points: - 'iba', 'ibas' and 'iba' are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person singular imperfect forms of...

Pupil outcome: I can use the imperfect, past continuous and preterite tenses to write an extended past-tense account. Key learning points: - The imperfect tense is used for what used to happen repeatedly and to set the scene in...

Pupil outcome: I can talk about what my town used to be like in the past using the imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs. Key learning points: - 'avoir' and 'faire' have regular stems in the imperfect tense: 'av-' and 'fais-'. -...

Pupil outcome: I can understand the demonstrative pronouns 'esto' and 'eso' in an interview with a scientist. Key learning points: - The demonstrative pronouns 'esto' and 'eso' mean 'this' and 'that'. - Unlike 'este', 'esta', 'ese' and...

Pupil outcome: I can use knowledge of the imperfect and preterite to respond to reading comprehension questions in the context of the work of Arturo Pérez Reverte. Key learning points: - The 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural imperfect...

Pupil outcome: I can distinguish between the present and imperfect tenses in the life of a Nuyorican. Key learning points: - The imperfect tense is used to talk about habitual actions in the past or to describe how things were in the...

Pupil outcome: I can describe a town in detail, using the imperfect and present tenses. I can describe a photo and draw comparisons between two photos. Key learning points: - We use present tense for describing a photo, but a range of...

Pupil outcome: I can understand and describe family events and issues using a checklist for range of language and accuracy. Key learning points: - The perfect tense, the imperfect tense and the present tense can be usefully combined to...

Pupil outcome: I can use irregular verbs in the perfect tense and ‘mochte’ in the imperfect tense in the context of career choices. Key learning points: - Some past participles are irregular. - In the imperfect tense, the stem of 'mögen'...

Pupil outcome: I can describe what I and others 'were doing' and what 'was happening' using the imperfect tense. Key learning points: - The imperfect tense is used to describe what 'was happening' or what you 'were doing' when something...

Pupil outcome: I can form yes/no questions in the perfect and imperfect tenses to ask questions about famous German speakers. Key learning points: - [er] at the end of a word is unstressed and sounds like the English ‘uh’. - The [r] in...

Pupil outcome: I can use the verb 'ser' in the present and imperfect tense to describe healthcare in Spain. Key learning points: - 'Es means 'she, he, it is' and 'era' means 'I, she, he, it was'. - The pronouns 'yo', 'él' and 'ella' make...

Pupil outcome: I can use plural forms of the imperfect tense in the context of protests and social movements. Key learning points: - ábamos, -abais and -aban are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural endings of -ar verbs in the imperfect...

Pupil outcome: I can form singular and plural masculine and feminine person nouns to discuss careers for young Germans. Key learning points: - Some masculine nouns, most of them referring to people or animals, add –(e)n to form the...

Pupil outcome: I can use the perfect and imperfect tenses to understand the recent experiences of a young person arriving to live and study in Germany. Key learning points: - Use the imperfect forms 'hatte', 'war', 'gab' to talk about...

Pupil outcome: I can read and understand an extended text, then plan and select language to write an extended text in German about Namibia, checking my work for accuracy. Key learning points: - Planning to write involves organising ideas...

Pupil outcome: I can exploit a longer written text to improve my vocabulary and grammar knowledge, to develop my reading skills and to create my own extended text on a contemporary issue. Key learning points: - Direct and indirect object...

We've learned about present tense and future tense, so now let's learn a past tense. The first past tense we will learn is the imperfect tense, for the first and second conjugations. This tense describes a progressive or habitual action...

In this video I explain how to make the preterite forms of regular verbs in German. This video only covers regular verbs. This video accompanies the German with Puppets Series #2 Video #8. Watch the puppet show here:...

Alexa conjugates the French verb être (to be) in the imperfect tense.