Competencies

C1: Reading

C2: Listening

C3: Spoken Interaction and Production

C4: Writing

German

Course Overview

We cover the following: 

• Multilingualism in Greater Manchester

• Key aspects of identity (name, age, nationality, birthday, whereyou live) 

• Numbers & dates

• Family & Pets

• Personality 

• Physical descriptions

• Body parts

• Giving opinions on different sports and hobbies 

• Talking about how often you do activities

• Music and musical instruments

Assessment

Learners show their progress against each of the competencies in their class and homework. They are also common assessments over the course of the year as follows:

Autumn Term - Reading and Listening (Competencies 1 and 2)

Spring Term - Speaking (Competency 3) and Writing (Competency 4). All learners will also write a poem for Mother Tongue, Other Tongue Competition under the theme of the Big Question - "What shapes our identity?"

Summer Term - End-of-year Exam (Competencies 1, 2, 3 and 4)

Recommended Reading

Non Fiction

How Languages Changed My Life (eds. H. Martin and W. Ayres-Bennett) (2019)

Bellos, A. The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe (2021)

Dorren, G. Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (2015)

Dorren, G. Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (2019)

Jenkins, C. France: Travel for kids: The fun way to discover France (2019)

Fiction

Richards, O. and Rawlings, A. Short Stories in German for Beginners (2018)

Winning Entries for Mother Tongue, Other Tongue Competition

2023