Curriculum Allocation
German is taught for two 100 minute lessons per fortnight.
Curriculum Period 1:
Curriculum content
During Curriculum Period 1 pupils will work on recalling language and vocabulary learnt in year 7 and see to build on this, adding new information and increasing complexity. Pupils will focus on pronunciation and intonation of the language with extensive exposure to chunks of language in phrase and sentence form, which gradually seeks to build confidence in using the language. Skills will be developed in Reading, Listening, Writing, Speaking, Translation and Dictation.
Vocabulary will set regularly for home work and tested at the start of the next lesson. Reading, writing and speaking tasks will also be set for home learning to embed new information.
| Lesson | Focus | Objective |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Recall Numbers | To recall numbers 1-31 in order to understand dates in German. To be able to count 1-100 looking for patterns. |
| 2 | Personality Descriptions | To describe your personality in first and third person. |
| 3 | School | To give opinions on school subjects and justify with a reason. |
| 4 | Sport | To say what sports you like and dislike and justify your reason. |
| 5 - 7 | Jobs | To identify 10 jobs in German. To say what a family member does as a job showing understanding of grammatical rules. |
| 8-9 | Comparing People | To explain how to use a comparative. To compare family members in German. |
| 10 | TV | To identify at least 6 TV genres. To give opinions on TV. |
| 11-13 | Film | To understand at least 8 film genres and give justified opinions. To write a detailed review of a film in German. |
Assessment
40-minute assessment testing understanding of grammar, sentence structure and ability to extract information from written passages. This will test only materials learnt in this curriculum period.
Curriculum Period 2:
Curriculum content
Topics covered in this period are:
| Lesson | Focus | Objective |
|---|---|---|
| Lesson 1-4 | Food | to give opinions on typical German food. to apply gern, nicht gern, lieber and am liebsten accurately with food to understand key points from a menu in German to discuss what you eat at different meal times. |
| Lesson 5-7 | Clothes | to identify 8 items of clothing in German. to discuss what you wear in different weather. to use colours to describe clothing. |
| Lesson 8 | Time | to understand the time and give times in German using 'o'clock', 'quarter past/to' and 'half past' |
| Lesson 9 | Free Time | to identify 8 hobbies/activities |
| Lesson 10-12 | Past Tense | to be able to explain how to apply the past tense to accurately apply the past tense with at least 4 time phrases. to write a paragraph about your free time in German. |
| Lesson 14-16 | Festival and Customs | to understand a range of vocabulary around key celebrations in the German-speaking world. |
Assessment
40-minute assessment testing understanding of grammar, sentence structure and ability to extract information from written passages. This will test mainly materials learnt in this curriculum period (approximate 75-80%) with the remainder of questions being focused on retrieving language learnt in Curriculum period 1.Revision resources
Pupils will be provided with electronic sentence builders to help them to decipher and build confidence with new language - these will support them in each lesson..Subject advice and guidance
If you need any further guidance then please contact your child’s teacher via email:
jessica.dudley@endon.set.org (DTL MFL)
gillian.oates@endon.set.org
tilly.johnson@endon.set.org