EITHER: Practice with one or two of the “Sprechtest 2” index cards
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OR: 5 Minuten sprechen
Possible topic: Sie haben jetzt alle Kapitel-Videos gesehen. Was ist Ihr Lieblings-T-Shirt aus den Videos?
Repeat present tense passive conjugation table p. 450
Instructor says e.g. “Ich werde von meiner Mutter geliebt. Von wem wird Lola geliebt? [Von Manni] Von wem werden die One Direction Kinder geliebt? [Von niemandem].”
Tell a partner “Ich werde von ___________ geliebt.”
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Was wird hier [im Klassenzimmer] gemacht?
Impersonal passive
This is a simple and natural construction in German, but can’t be translated literally into English:
“Es wird getanzt”: There is dancing going on / People are dancing [literally: “It is being danced”]
“Hier werden Filme gesehen”: Movies are being watched here / People watch/are watching movies here.
See p. 454 for more examples
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For the example, “in der Diskothek,” in addition to the model answer given (“In der Diskothek wird getanzt”), you could also say “Es wird getanzt” or “Hier wird getanzt”
Instructor asks questions like “Es/Hier wird getanzt” or “Es/Hier werden Filme gesehen” etc. and asks where “hier” could be
Past tense of Passive voice:
Remember that in order to form the passive in different tenses, you just need to use the different tenses of “werden,” which you already know – or else should now urgently review!
Repeat narrative and conversational past forms in the charts pp. 451 & 452
Note in the summary table on p. 452 how in all tenses of the passive, the past participle of the verb (“angerufen” in this case) must always be used!
Who called? (i.e. in the “angerufen” charts on pp. 451-2): the point is that we don’t know, and that one of the main uses of the passive is to describe what happened when we don’t know or don’t want to say who did it.