Das Perfekt Pac ~ Activities For German Class ~ The Conversational Past Tense

“After the verb 'to love', 'to help' is the most beautiful verb in the world."

Bertha von Suttner

(Czech-Austrian novelist ~ 1843 - 1914)

I ate a salad.

I washed the car.

I did my homework.

I went back to the library.

I flew to Bonn on Tuesday.

Have your students learned das Perfekt and now need some reinforcing activities to help perfect their skills ?

Here are six activities to allow your students to practice das Perfekt - the Present Perfect Tense or the Conversational Past Tense.

Included are both 'haben' and 'sein' verbs, however, you can change the verbs used to fit whatever your students have learned.

You get:

Aktivität 1

Inside/Outside Questions

Aktivität 2

Ich habe niemals ... (small group activity)

Aktivität 3

Das Kapitänspiel (verbs with 'haben', 'sein', and -ieren verbs ~ team activity)

Aktivität 4

Verben- Projekt

Aktivität 5

Partner-Interview (verbs with 'sein')

Aktivität 6

Zwei Wahrheiten und Eine Lüge (small group activity)

Kurzarbeit 1

* Verbs with 'haben'

Kurzarbeit 2

* Verbs with 'sein'

Kurzarbeit 3

* Verbs with 'haben'

Kurzarbeit 4

* Verbs with 'haben' and 'sein'

Kurzarbeit 5

* Verbs with 'haben' and 'sein'

Answer keys to all quizzes.

Plus-Punkte Sheet ~ a unique way to reward the winners in vocab games

Please Note

The quizzes can easily be changed if you want to remove verbs that take 'sein' or add other verbs your students are familiar with.

Your students will get lots of oral practice with familiar verbs in friendly competition and have the chance to show artistically their comprehension of das Perfekt as well.

All instructions, interview charts, overheads, rubrics, quizzes, and answer keys are included.

Everything is classroom-ready so you can use these activities with no muss and no fuss. (35 pages)

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Some delightful videos have been done by Andrew Bossom, an Englishman living in Germany.

He has a refreshing and fun way of looking at things, such as ~

'End of sentence verbs'.

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