German

Competencies

C1: Reading

C2: Listening

C3: Spoken Interaction and Production

C4: Writing

Course Overview

We cover the following during the course:

Giving opinions on school and school subjects
Telling the time
Describing school
Discussing school rules
School clubs
School uniform
Describing giving opinions on what you eat and drink
Ordering food and drink in a restaurant
Describing a meal you have eaten
Healthy living
Discussing where you went on holiday
Activities on holiday
Accommodation
Transport
The perfect tense
Weather

Assessments

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 - Writing (Competency 4) and Speaking (Competency 3). All learners will also write a poem based on the theme of Big Question - "What can I learn from outside of the UK? for the national Mother Tongue, Other Tongue Competition

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

German and The Big Questions

Learning is strongly linked to the Big Question "What can we learn from beyond the UK?"

Staff Contact

Miss Emma Hayward (Head of German)