The Angmering School

Here you find the content of the German course for each year group.
Year 7 Topics

1. My world and I
2. Family and pets
3. Leisure time
4. School
5. 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

1. Holidays
2. Media
3. Healthy living
4. School trips
5. 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

1. Role models
2. Music
3. Jobs and ambitions
4. My childhood
5. 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