German
Here you find the content of the German course for each year group.
Year 7 Topics
- My world and I
- Family and pets
- Leisure time
- School
- My town and travel
Year 7 Grammar
- verbs and verb endings in the present tense
- nouns and articles
- pronouns
- modal verb “können”
- adjectives
- Counting and using ordinal numbers
- Asking and answering questions
- correct word order
- opinions and reasons
- prepositions
- future tense using the present tense
Year 8 Topics
- Holidays
- Media
- Healthy living
- School trips
- Going out
Year 8 Grammar
- Past tense: imperfect and perfect
- Asking questions in the perfect tense
- Modal verbs “wollen, sollen, dürfen, können, müssen”
- Prepositions with the dative case
- Irregular verbs
- Reflexive and separable verbs
- Imperative
- “Wenn” clauses
- Future tense
- Using past, present and future tenses together
Year 9 Topics
- Role models
- Music
- Jobs and ambitions
- My childhood
- Rights and duties
Year 9 Grammar
- Consolidation of past, present and future tenses
- Subject and direct object pronouns
- “Seit”
- Making comparisons: comparative and superlative
- Separable verbs in the perfect tense
- Conditional tense
- “um ...zu”
- Prepositions with accusative and dative cases
- Word order (verb second)
- Word order with conjunctions
- Imperfect of modal verbs
Year 10/11 GCSE Topics
We follow the AQA specification for Modern Foreign Languages.
Students study all of the following themes on which the assessments are based:
Theme 1 Identity and culture- to include: 1) me, my family and friends 2) technology 3) free time activities 4) customs and festivals
Theme 2 Local, national, international and global areas of interest - to include: 1) home and town 2) social issues 3) global issues 4) travel and tourism
Theme 3 Current and future study and employment - to include: 1) my studies 2) life at school 3) post-16 education 4) jobs, career choices and ambitions
Students will study these themes through the four skills of learning a language: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
Year 10/11 GCSE Grammar
The main grammar aspects taught during the GCSE course are:
- Present tense
- Perfect tense
- Imperfect tense
- Future tense
- Conditional
- Imperative
- Negatives
- Nouns and articles
- Cases and pronouns
- Prepositions
- Adjectives
- Comparative and superlative
- Questions
- Conjunctions
Higher ability students will also study:
- Infinitive constructions
- Pluperfect tense
- Subjunctive
- Passive
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