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BackKey Stage Three
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Year 7 |
Year 8 |
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Term One: Autumn |
Being able to greet, Being able to communicate where you live, how you are feeling and why, your age and birthday. |
Being able to talk about places in your local area and what one can do in your local area. Understand the use of kein/keine/keinen |
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Term Two: Christmas |
Being able to describe someone’s personality and appearance Understand the conjugation of haben and sein Learn about Christmas in Germany |
Being able to communicate where you went on holiday and where you stayed Understand the past tense formation with ‘sein’ in German |
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Term Three: Winter |
Being able to communicate what you do in your free time. Understand the conjugation of regular verbs Learn about Karneval in Germany |
Being able to communicate what you did on holiday in the past tense and give your opinion. Understand the past tense formation with haben in German |
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Term Four: Spring |
Being able to communicate what school subjects you like/dislike and why Being able to tell the time in German Being able to talk about your school timetable |
Being able to buy food at a market (including asking for a specific number of grams, kg, and enquiring about prices) Learn about traditional German dishes Being able to order at a restaurant |
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Term Five: Summer |
Being able to communicate what you will do on the weekend Understand the future tense in German Revise previously learned language |
Being able to invite others out Being able to give excuses Revise previously learned language |
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Year 9 |
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Term One: Autumn |
Being able to talk about your daily routine Understand separable verbs Understand reflexive verbs Understand the verb second rule |
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Term Two: Christmas |
Being able to communicate what options you will choose next year and why Revise the future tense |
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Term Three: Winter |
Being able to communicate what job you would like to get later and why Being able to communicate what job your parents chose and why Understand the use of subordinating conjunctions in German |
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Term Four: Spring |
Being able to communicate what you did on a past holiday and give your opinion on it Revise the past tense Being able to communicate what you did on a future holiday and give your opinion Revise the future tense |
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Term Five: Summer |
Being able to communicate what types of technology you use and why Being able to communicate the advantages/disadvantages of technology Revise verb conjugation Revise word order rules |
Key Stage Four
This Pearson Edexcel GCSE German course is taught over two years with students having three lessons a week and home learning tasks. It covers the following five themes: School, Identity and Culture, Local Area, Holidays and Travel, Future Aspirations, Study and Work, International and Global Dimension. Students sit four examinations at the end of year 11, each focusing on one of the four skills: listening, reading, speaking and writing (making up 25% of the qualification each).
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Year 10 |
Year 11 |
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Term One: Autumn |
School |
Environment |
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Term Two: Christmas |
Free time |
Exam preparation/PPE |
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Term Three: Winter |
Home and Local Area |
Work |
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Term Four: Spring |
Holiday |
Relationships + Exam preparation |
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Term Five: Summer |
Exam preparation/PPE |
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Key Stage Five
The Pearson Edexcel Level 3 Advanced GCE in German consists of two externally-examined papers at the end of year 13 assessing listening, reading and writing and a non-examined speaking assessment, during which students discuss their findings from an independent research project. Students are taught three lessons a week by teacher one, and two lessons a week by teacher two. Students also benefit from an independent study session each week, where they are supported by a native foreign language assistant.
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Year 12 |
Year 13 |
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Teacher one |
Teacher two |
Teacher one |
Teacher two |
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Term One: Autumn |
Die Musik |
Die Umwelt (the environment) |
Wiedervereinigung (reunification) |
Die positive Die Herausforderungen von Immigration (the challenges of immigration) and Independent Research Project |
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Term Two: Christmas |
Goodbye Lenin |
Die Medien (media) |
Der Besuch der alten Dame |
Die staatliche und soziale Reaktion zur Immigration (state and social reaction to immigration) |
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Term Three: Winter |
Goodbye Lenin |
Bildung (education) |
Der Besuch der alten Dame |
Revision of year 12 themes in preparation for speaking exam and refinement of Independent Research Project. |
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Term Four: Spring |
Goodbye Lenin |
Die Welt der Arbeit (the world of work) |
Der Besuch der alten Dame / Goodbye Lenin / Translation |
Further speaking practice and preparation for listening, reading, translation exam. |
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Term Five: Summer |
Das Leben in der DDR (life in the former East Germany) |
Die positive Auswirkung von Immigration (the positive influence of immigration) and Independent Research Project |
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