About Our Department

The German Department of CBC Monkstown is a committed and vibrant department, facilitating learners of all abilities to achieve their full potential as speakers of the EU's most spoken mother tongue. Over the years we have built on excellent classroom practice to enrich the learning experience of our students with a highly successful exchange program, language assistants, pen-pals and the use of ICT and interactive digital media projects.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Plusquamperfekt - The Pluperfect in German

The Plusquamperfekt/pluperfect is basically a fancy version of the Perfekt/perfect. The only difference is that the auxiliary verbs 'haben' and 'sein' are used in the Imperfekt/Praeteritum/simple past tense instead of the Praesens/present as you do in the Perfekt/perfect

click here to find a really good blog with audio podcast explaining how the whole thing works.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Dienstag der 2.11.10

TY: click here for info on Klee
below is the video for 2 Fragen