Curriculum Allocation
German is taught for two 100 minute lessons per fortnight.
Curriculum Period 1:
Pupils will focus on a range of topics previously covered in years 7 and 8, but here adding new levels of complex grammatical structures and more advanced vocabulary. Pupils will focus on pronunciation and intonation of the language with extensive exposure to chunks of language in phrase and sentence form. Skills will be further developed in Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking, Translation and Dictation to best prepare pupils for a potential GCSE.
Vocabulary will be set to learn regularly for Homework and tested at the start of the next lesson. Reading, Translation, Writing and Speaking tasks will also be set for Homework in this unit.
Curriculum content
| Lesson | Focus | Objective |
|---|---|---|
| 1-3 | Home and Region | Types of house, location and rooms, furniture and prepositions. |
| 4-5 | Time and Routine | Times and reflexive verbs |
| 6-7 | Health | Food, drink and adjectives linked to health. Saying what you should do to be healthy. |
| 8-10 | Technology | What devices you use, how you use technology and opinions on social media. |
| 11-14 | Town | Places in a town and adjective agreement, talking about town problems |
| 15 | Holidays | To say where you normally go on holiday and how you get there. |
Assessment
60-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
| Holidays | Say what where you normally go, transport, weather and activities that you do, describe a past holiday in detail and to plan a holiday |
| Free Time | to say what you do and how often in your free time, to say what you did last weekend using the past tense |
| Helping at Home | What you do to help at home and what you should do using modal verbs. |
| Future Tense | to say what you are going to do at the weekend using the future tense. |
Assessment
60-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 sentence builders to help them to decipher and build confidence with new language.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