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Curriculum Year 10 / Year 11

Assessment

Supporting your child

Extended learning

Exam Board and Course Code

AQA GCSE German Syllabus 8668

https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/languages/gcse/german-8668

Curriculum

10	What students will learn	How it builds on learning
	Zeit für Freizeit: Leisure activities – sport, reading, cinema and TV; conditional tense; gern/lieber/am liebsten	Opinions and hobbies from Key Stage 3; continued practice with word order and verbs; revision of nouns and articles
	Menschliche Beziehungen: Family relationships; possessives, separable verbs	Separable verbs build on previous work with verbs; extension of adjectives and word order; extension of imperfect tense and modal verbs
	Willkommen bei mir: Life at home, routine, food, house rules, healthy lifestyles, social media and technology	Reflexives and separable verbs revise the use of tenses; further work on nouns and articles; complex opinions build on simpler opinions; practice of word order
	Ich liebe Wien: travelling and tickets	Questions and answers
11	What students will learn	How it builds on learning
	Wien und Wiener Schnitzel: travel, restaurant dining, shopping, hotels	Continued practice of questions and answers; use of “seit”; consolidation of comparative and superlative adjectives and of the use of nouns and articles
	Im Urlaub und zu Hause: holidays, pluperfect tense	Revision of adjectives and extension of tenses; further practice of word order; practice of modal verbs
	Rund um die Arbeit: The world of work	Conjunctions with word order; practice with using a range of tenses and nouns
	Eine wunderbare Welt: Social and environmental issues	Subordinate clauses, continued practice with a range of tenses; gender of nouns

Assessment

Pupils will be assessed on two skills at the end of each module except where this occurs near the time of the Year 10 summer exams or the Year 11 mock exams.

Supporting your child

What you can do at home:

Encourage them to use their Quizlet.com class and the textbook vocab pages to review vocabulary and grammar regularly;

Encourage them to read aloud – to practise German in a low-stakes way; they could use their end of module questions;

Test them with vocabulary learning;

Listen to German language music/radio using e.g. the radio.garden app;

Keep an eye out for films, documentaries, travelogues etc featuring the German-speaking world.

Equipment:

Other than standard (Pencil case, HB pencils, pencil sharpener; rubber, coloured pencils, black or blue biros, or ink pen and cartridges, short ruler, reading book – and charged iPad)

Extended learning

Homework policy:

Pupils will be typically be set homework on their last German lesson of the week due for the last lesson of the following week.

Extended study suggestions and reading lists:

All lessons are available on the CATalogue; you will particularly note the revision resources in the Year 11 section

BBC Bitesize Key Stage 3 and GCSE German

Oak National Academy German Key Stage 4

CGP Revision Guide and Workbook and similar can be purchased

www.pearsonactivelearn.com – pupils provided with a log-in and password at the start of the year

www.quizlet.com - pupils create a log-in and password when they start languages at CamVC

www.linguascope.com - pupils provided with a log-in and password at the start of the year

www.memrise.com

www.duolingo.com

https://www.dw.com/en/learn-german/s-2469 online German courses

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