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Presentation: Use of tenses

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This Revision Bite will help you identify and use a variety of tenses in your German presentation.

Using a variety of tenses

In your presentation it is important to vary the tenses if you are aiming for a Grade C or above. Listen to Olaf's presentation, which lasts about one minute. Note how the candidate uses different tenses when talking about the same topic.

Most of the presentation is in the present tense, but see if you can spot when Olaf uses the perfect tense (5 times), the future tense (once), conditional (once) and an infinitive with 'um ... zu' (once).

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