German - Key Stage 3

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What pupils will learn

How it builds on learning

Pupils in specified form groups will begin learning German in February 2023.

The sounds of German; basic greetings

Compare and contrast with English and Spanish; pupils look again at how sounds and spellings are represented

Introducing nouns with the German for “the” and “a”

Builds on the concept of gender learnt in Spanish; practice of German pronunciation

Countries – verbs “sein” and “haben”

Builds into the basic conversations with greetings; practice of pronunciation

Schoolbag items

Practice of words for the/a and of the verbs “haben” and “sein”

Age and birthday

Builds on the earlier introduction of numbers and months build on the skill of comparing with English

Plurals and question words

Build on earlier basic dialogues and key questions; build on work with nouns and pronunciation

Describing personality and favourite things

Practice and consolidation of “sein”

Colours

Practice of favourite things; use to practise with schoolbag items

Free time; opinions

Continued practice of pronunciation, questions, answers; introduction of regular verbs following “sein” and “haben”; using cognates to increase vocabulary; further practice of question words

Places in town

Build on work on nouns and gender

Summer plans – present tense with future meaning

Practise and extend free time and opinions

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What pupils will learn

How it builds on learning

Places in town

Build on work on nouns and gender

Summer plans - future

Practise and extend free time and opinions

School subjects

Build on sentence structure with inverted word order and subordinate clauses; build on opinions; describing teachers and revising personality; telling the time to build on numbers

Food and drink

Builds on gender, opinions, question words and work on word order

Family – describing people

Builds on work on personality and colours, and work with the verbs “sein” and “haben”. 

Revision of verbs and word order

Revision of verbs, word order and opinions

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What pupils will learn

How it builds on learning

Holidays – past present and future

Introduction of past and future tenses builds on earlier work on verbs; revision of opinions, countries, word order

Wild auf Musik

Revision and extension of opinions and of use of cognates; revision of questions and word order; description of a trip to a concert/festival to revise tenses and opinions

Life at school – introduction of imperfect tense with a range of verbs; seit + present tense

Builds on Year 8 topic; revision of colours; clothes to revise gender and use of articles; use of modals to describe school rules builds on previous work on verbs and word order; class trip sub-topic to revise tenses; describing the school day builds on work on telling the time

Filme

Extension of opinions and continued practice with tenses and word order

Summer intervention

Revision of key grammar points to book-end the course for those discontinuing German and to provide a firm basis for those starting the GCSE course