Bienvenue! Bienvenido! - Hinchingbrooke School

Bienvenue! Bienvenido! - Hinchingbrooke School

Welcome to Hinchbrooke A level Modern Foreign Languages!
Willkommen!
Bienvenue!
Bienvenido!
We hope you found the Department of Education advice about A Level Modern
Foreign Languages useful and reassuring. The following pages provide you with a
range of tasks which will help you to prepare for A Level German. The key to
success in languages is, as always, regular revision and practice. In order to keep up
the language skills you have already acquired you should spend a few hours each
week on these tasks over the summer. Your German teachers will expect you to
bring the completed tasks to your first A level German lesson.
CONTENTS
Section A - Explore, investigate, read, listen and watch
1. Listening practice on some of the A Level topics
2. Reading practice on some of the A level topics
3. Internet based research
Section B – Write
4. Revision of past tense
5. Diary task
Section C – Express yourself
6. Speaking presentation
Section A - Explore, investigate, listen and watch
Task 1 - Listening practice on some of the A Level topics
Work from BBC Bitesize Higher Listening tasks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/german/listeningh/
Complete all revise + test exercises on the following A Level topic areas
• Mobile phones
• Technology
• Healthy and Unhealthy Lifestyles
As you complete these exercises make a list for each topic of any vocabulary you
don’t know.
Task 2 - Reading practice on some of the A Level topics
Work from BBC Bitesize Higher Listening tasks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/german/readingh/
Complete all revise + test exercises on the following A Level topic areas
• Health Resort Activities
• Social Issues
• Problems facing the Planet
As you complete these exercises make a list for each topic of any vocabulary you
don’t know.
Task 3 – Internet based Research
Work from the German news site which has slowed down versions of current news
items from across the World
http://www.dw.de/deutsch-lernen/top-thema/s-8031
Choose a minimum of 3 items which interest you, make notes in German on the key
points and compile a vocab list on the topic. Please make sure that you include
details of the date of the article or the web address so that we can find the article
when we need to.
Section B – Write
Task 4 – Grammar revision of past tense
Mein Tagebuch
Samstag, den 8. Juni
Heute bin ich ziemlich spät aufgestanden, da ich meinen Bruder zum Bahnhof
bringen mußte. Danach bin ich einkaufen gegangen. Unterwegs nach Hause habe
ich meine Freundin, Karola besucht. Ich hatte Glűck – sie hatte gerade Kuchen
gebacken und wir haben sie im Garten gegessen und eine Stunde lang űber alles
Mögliche geplaudert. Am Nachmittag habe ich ein bißchen Gartenarbeit
gemacht, aber es ist auf einmal sehr kalt geworden, also bin ich ins Haus
gegangen, wo ich ein paar E-Mails geschrieben habe.
Um halb fűnf habe ich mich warm angezogen, um mit meiner Freundin Anneliese
und ihrem Hund spazieren zu gehen. Das war ganz anstrengend, weil der Hund
immer wieder weggelaufen ist und einmal sogar ins Wasser gesprungen ist, aber
es hat Spaß gemacht.
Abends habe ich einen Krimi gesehen, der äußerst gruselig war
( nachher
konnte ich nicht gut schlafen!). Es handelte von einem Massenmörder, der
meinem Schulleiter ähnlich aussah! Ich bin um halb elf ins Bett gegangen, weil
ich am nächsten Tag meine Großeltern besuchen wollte.
Finde im Text (leave out any information which is not required and remember to
change the word order as necessary)
1. I got up
2. I went shopping
3. I visited my friend
4. We ate in the garden
5. We chatted
6. I did some gardening
7. It became cold
8. I went indoors
9. I wrote e-mails
10. I got dressed
11. The door rang away
12. The dog jumped into the water
13. It was fun
14. I watched a thriller
15. I went to bed
The Past tense ( Perfect tense)
The perfect tense is used to describe things that have happened in the past.
It can be translated into English with either the simple past ( I did, I worked, I ate, I
learnt) or the perfect tense ( I have done, I have worked, I have eaten, I have learnt).
In German the perfect tense has 2 parts – an auxiliary verb ( haben / sein) + the past
participle
e.g.
ich habe Fußball gespielt
ich bin in die Stadt gefahren
er hat Pizza gegessen
wir haben Fanta getrunken
die Kinder sind nach Deutschland gefahren
Now go back to the sentences 1-15 and check that each sentence has an auxiliary
verb and a past participle.
Underline the auxiliary verb in red, underline the past participle in blue.
Also check that the auxiliary verb goes with the subject ( the person who is doing the
verb.
e.g.
ich habe die Hausaufgaben gemacht
but
Harry hat die Hausaufgaben gemacht
Markus und Detlev haben die Hausaufgaben gemacht
Hast du die Hausaufgaben gemacht?
To write or talk about something you have done in the past, you must use the perfect
tense – it is therefore vital that you know all parts of the verbs “sein” + “haben” and
that you know how to form the past participle and how to find the irregular past
participles (strong verbs) in a dictionary or verb table.
Revise and learn:
sein ( to be)
haben ( to have)
ich bin
wir sind
ich habe
wir haben
du bist
ihr seid
du hast
ihr habt
Sie sind
er/sie/es/ ist
Sie haben
sie sind
er/sie/es hat
sie haben
Some of the most common past participles you need to learn
Please note this list is not complete, but hopefully you will start to recognise patterns
and also see how verbs with the same root change in the same way ( eg. fangen +
anfangen)
Infinitive
anfangen
beginnen
bleiben
bringen
denken
essen
fahren
fallen
fangen
finden
fliegen
geben
gefallen
gehen
gewinnen
helfen
kommen
laufen
lesen
nehmen
Past Participle
angefangen
begonnen
geblieben*
gebracht
gedacht
gegessen
gefahren*
gefallen*
gefangen
gefunden
geflogen*
gegeben
gefallen
gegangen*
gewonnen
geholfen
gekommen
gelaufen*
gelesen
genommen
Infinitive
schlafen
schlagen
schwimmen
schreiben
sehen
sprechen
springen
stehen
steigen
sterben
tragen
treffen
trinken
verlieren
wachsen
waschen
werfen
wissen
ziehen
Past Participle
geschlafen
geschlagen
geschwommen*
geschrieben
gesehen
gesprochen
gesprungen*
gestanden
gestiegen*
gestorben*
getragen
getroffen
getrunken
verloren
gewachsen*
gewaschen
geworfen
gewusst
gezogen
* verbs which take “sein” instead of “haben”
Task 5 – Diary ( mein Tagebuch)
Keep your own diary (Tagebuch) for a week of the summer holiday
Refer to these notes and examples of the perfect tense.
In order to raise the level of your language you will also need to include some of the
following in the same way as you did at GCSE:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Simple links ( und, aber – don’t change the word order)
Subordinating links ( weil, da, als, obwohl – send verb to end)
Time phrases ( remember to put the verb 2nd if you start a sentence with a
phrase like etwas später, um sechs Uhr, dann, danach…)
Modal verbs ( ich konnte, ich mußte, ich wollte etc. + infinitive at the end)
Opinions+ personal reactions
Don’t just stick to “ich”, include examples of verbs in the 3rd person singular
form (he / she / my mum) and the 3rd person plural form( they / my friends)
Can you include an example of the pluperfect ie. what you or someone else
had done ( sie hatte Kuchen gebacken)?
Section C – Express yourself
Task 6 - Speaking presentation
Please prepare a 2 minute presentation in German about yourself for the first lesson
so we can all get to know each other better. Have some notes to help you, but you
are not expected to just read notes.
You could include the following:
• Personal details.
• Family and friends.
• Where you live (good /interesting places, thing to do etc…).
• Your hobbies and school life.
• And what plans you have for the future.
• Opinions!
IMPORTANT : How to write vocabulary lists
When you list new vocabulary it is important to all information about the word
1. For a noun include the gender and the plural form
e.g. die Banane (-n)
2. For an irregular verb include the infinitive, present tense, imperfect and past
participle
e.g. fahren, fährt, fuhr, gefahren ( + sein)