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 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...

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...

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 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 use reflexive verbs and adverbs in the perfect and imperfect tenses in the context of studies and work. Key learning points: - In two-verb structures, the reflexive pronoun normally comes after the first verb. - In...

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 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...

The next in a series of short lessons on the basic grammar of the Romance languages. This one's about verb tenses & aspects in Vulgar Latin and Romance. The previous video on verbs demonstrated present tense endings across the Romance...

Hola. In this video lesson we'll start tackling the confusion that often arises with two past tenses: the preterite and the imperfect. Stay tuned for the next video which will also deal with the preterite and the imperfect.

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 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...

Hola. In this phrase of the day we're talking about some costly things. Ever wondered how to talk about something costing an arm or a leg in Spanish? Well, here's the video for it!

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In this video, my puppets give a bunch of examples using the grammar topics covered in the first 9 videos. The topics cover include: dative pronouns; present perfect with regular and irregular verbs; possessive adjectives, comparative...

In this video, my puppets give a quick rundown of the rules governing the grammar topics covered in the first 9 videos. The topics cover include: dative pronouns (1:02); present perfect with regular and irregular verbs (5:05); possessive...

The Maya language has no past tense, so how do they tell stories? I'll explain the complex way this tenseless language talks about events in the past. Previous video about Maya tenselessnesss://www.youtubemore/watch?v=ttpatronIHA'...