This exam tips covers Exam Tips & Common Errors within Travel and tourism, including places of interest for GCSE German. Revise Travel and tourism, including places of interest in Theme 3: Communication and the World Around Us for GCSE German with 10 exam-style questions and 15 flashcards. This topic shows up very often in GCSE exams, so students should be able to explain it clearly, not just recognise the term. It is section 4 of 4 in this topic. Treat this as a marking guide for what examiners are looking for, not just a fact list.
💡 Exam Tips & Common Errors
- Use mit + the dative for transport: mit dem Zug, mit dem Flugzeug, mit dem Auto.
- Use the fixed phrase ins Ausland when you talk about going abroad.
- Describe a past holiday with the perfect tense (ich bin … geflogen, ich habe … besichtigt) to show tense range.
❌ Common error: Ich fahre mit den Zug.
✓ Correct: Ich fahre mit dem Zug.
Why it costs marks: mit always takes the dative, so masculine der Zug becomes mit dem Zug, not the accusative den Zug. Using the accusative after mit is a common case error that costs AO3 marks.
Practice questions for Travel and tourism, including places of interest
What does 'die Reise' mean in English?
What is the German word for 'abroad'?