Curriculum Allocation
German is taught for two 100 minute lessons per fortnight.
Curriculum Period 1:
Curriculum content
In this initial phase of learning German, the focus is on introducing ourselves. Students will be able to say their name, age, birthday and where they live. They will also be able to give information on family members and pets such as appearance and personality traits. We will also look at our personal interests and hobbies.
In lessons we look at improving our listening, speaking, reading and writing skills using new vocabulary but also building on previous learning. Vocabulary will be set to learn for Homework and tested at the start of each lesson. Reading and Translation tasks will also be set in this unit.
| Lesson | Focus | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 /2 | Introductions | To greet someone appropriately in German, give a brief response of how you are and give your name. | |
| 3/4 | Birthdays | To recognise numbers 1-31 and months. To say when your birthday is in German | |
| 5 | Countries | To say where you live and identify at least 8 countries. | |
| 6 | Nationalities | To identify and apply at least 8 nationalities in German | |
| 7 | Physical Descriptions | To describe your own hair and eye colour. To add further detail of appearance (glasses/freckles/beard) | |
| 8 | Family | To identify at least 5 family members in German and give a description of their appearance. | |
| 9 | Personality | To describe your personality and use third person | |
| 10 | Pets | To say what pets your have and to understand the different forms of 'a' | |
| 11/12 | Hobbies | To say what you like to and don't like to do in your free time and why. | |
Assessment
A 40-minute assessment which focus on testing pupils' ability to retrieve the content from Period 1 will take place. The assessment will include reading and writing tasks to test their knowledge of vocabulary covered so far.
Curriculum Period 2:
Curriculum content
The course continues to build upon the work undertaken in the first part of Year 7 and start to introduce some more thematic learning - pupils will learn further phonic sounds [u], [ü], [ä], [ö], [äu], [sch], [sp], [s], [ß], [v], [au], [eu] and [th] - they will build upon their work from the first period and in addition to reinforcing all phonic sounds, pupils will learn to talk about the following aspects:
Giving names and ages
Counting 1-31
Saying when birthdays are
Saying where people live and come from
Describing facial features
Describing location of houses and cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
In this period, homework will continue to be set weekly, but there will be more emphasis on recalling short phrases, as well as individual items of vocabulary.
Assessment
A 30-minute assessment which focus on testing pupils' ability to retrieve the content from Periods 1 and 2 will take place. The assessment will be in the form of written questions which check understanding as well as vocabulary. 75% of this assessment will be testing understanding from this period. 25% will be recalling aspects introduced during the first curriculum period.
Revision resources
Pupils will be sent all homework lists of vocabulary weekly, as well as Quizlet links to practise this vocabulary online and interactively.Subject advice and guidance
If you need any further guidance then please contact your child’s teacher via email:
g.oates@endon.set.org (Head of Department)
t.johnson@endon.set.org