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German (Edexcel)
My personal world: Identitätsprobleme

Starter quiz

  • The English words below are cognates or near-cognates in German. Which ones change spelling in German?
    • situation
    • concentration  ✓
    • Africa  ✓
    • integration
    • religion
  • Match the German and English.
    • glauben
      ⇔
      to believe, believing ✓
    • beantworten
      ⇔
      to answer, answering ✓
    • heißen
      ⇔
      to be called, being called ✓
    • ganz
      ⇔
      really, very, whole, all the ✓
    • gerecht
      ⇔
      just, fair ✓
    • gleich
      ⇔
      same, right away, equally ✓
  • Which of the following sentences are in the perfect tense?
    • Er hat nichts getan.  ✓
    • Das habe ich nicht gewusst.  ✓
    • Ich mache das gleich.
    • Er hatte keine Idee.
    • Wir sind nach Berlin gezogen.  ✓
  • Match the imperfect forms of 'sein' and 'haben' to the correct English meanings.
    • war
      ⇔
      (I, he, she, it) was ✓
    • wart
      ⇔
      (you all) were ✓
    • hattest
      ⇔
      (you) had ✓
    • hattet
      ⇔
      (you all) had ✓
    • waren
      ⇔
      (we, they) were ✓
    • hatten
      ⇔
      (we, they) had ✓
  • 'Es gibt' means __________. 'Es gab' is the imperfect tense form, meaning __________. For example: 'Es __________ im Winter Schnee in den Alpen, aber letztes Jahr __________ es nicht genug!'
    • 1
      ⇔
      'there is or there are'
    • 2
      ⇔
      'there was or there were'
    • 3
      ⇔
      gibt
    • 4
      ⇔
      gab
  • 'Hatte', 'war' and 'es gab' are frequently used in writing and speaking in German to describe past events. Other forms of the imperfect tense are mostly used in ______.
    • 'writing' ✓
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