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Interview with a musician: present tense weak verbs, yes/no questions

German musicians: present tense open questions, word order

A fairy tale: present tense 2nd person plural ('ihr'), dative verbs

Storytelling: pronouns 'du', 'ihr', 'Sie', object word order

This unit revisits previously known vocabulary and the present tense in new contexts. . The 2nd person plural 'ihr' (informal) is introduced for weak verbs and the contrasts between du and 'Sie' (formal) consolidated.

Modern lives and tall tales: present tense

Plan an event: present strong verbs, 'you' pronouns 'ihr', 'du', 'Sie' and 'man'

Birthdays: recounting personal experiences

What do you see? Negation: kein + indefinite article vs nicht + definite article

This unit revisits strong and weak verbs in all persons, as well as numbers, question formation, negation and adjective agreement.  Vocabulary is revisited and extended as pupils describe event preparations, pictures and paintings.

Everyday culture: present tense weak and strong verbs

What you used to do: perfect tense with 'ihr' (you, familiar pl.) and 'früher'

What did they do then? Perfect, imperfect 'war', 'hatte', 'gab', compound nouns

Famous lives: 'als' as 'when' with the past tense

Famous German speakers: 'bevor' and 'nachdem', word order

Childhood experiences: nouns, past tense, conjunctions

This unit revisits past tenses. The perfect tense is consolidated as variations on past participle formation are practised. The imperfect tense (war, hatte, es gab) is revisited, with question formation and word order 3 conjunctions. Pupils learn how to say calendar years in German.

Past lives: perfect and imperfect tenses

Christmas market: 'alle', 'jed-', 'dies-' and 'welch-'

What I would like: 'möcht-' in one- and two-verb structures

Future plans: plural future tense 'werden' + infinitive, two-verb structures

What is important: infinitive uses, 'es ist' + adjective, 'zu' + infinitive

What is important in life: infinitive uses, verbs capitalised as nouns

What you do for and with others: prepositions 'ohne', 'für', 'mit', and 'von'

What you did for and with others: perfect tense

This unit extends knowledge of the future tense for all persons, and introduces 'möcht-' , with nouns and in two-verb structures. Using the infinite with 'es ist' + adjective, zu + infinitive extends pupils'  ability to give views and opinions. Prepositions with accusative and dative are revisited.

Desires, plans and priorities: 'möcht-' future and use of infinitive

Everyday actions and routines: using singular verbs reflexively

Everyday routine: using verbs reflexively, 24-hour clock

Festivals and traditions: using plural verbs reflexively

Famous festivals and traditions: plural reflexive verbs, 12-hour clock

This unit introduces reflexive verbs in the present tense and teaches pupils to recognise reflexive vs non-reflexive use of common verbs. The 12 and 24- hour clock are revisited so that pupils can describe their actions and routines on a daily basis and for special occasions and festivals.

Ordinary routines and special events: reflexive verbs

New Year's resolutions: future tense

New Year's resolutions: word order with two-verb structures

This unit consolidates knowledge of the future tense, two-verb structures, and the use of zu infinitive. It introduces word order 3 with two-verb structures as pupils learn to give reasons for New Year's resolutions.

People and things: relative clauses to define who, which, that

Work placement as a stagehand: relative clauses

A murder mystery party: relative clauses

This unit introduces introduces relative clauses in the nominative cases, as well as the indefinite pronouns 'jemand' and 'niemand'. Pupils also learn to embed (non-defining) relative clauses within main clauses and revisit adjective endings with indefinite articles.

Family experiences: relative clauses

Famous people and their languages: perfect tense with 'sein', calendar years

Language and identity: separable verbs, cardinal and ordinal numbers

Childhood experiences: imperfect modal verbs 'konnte', 'musste', 'wollte'

Childhood experiences: imperfect plural forms of 'sein' and 'haben'

Migration: imperfect modal verbs 'konnte', 'musste', 'wollte'

Migration: imperfect modal verbs, word order with two-verb structures

Migrant experiences: noun suffixes, ‘welch-’

This unit revisits the perfect tense with sein, introducing change of state verbs, and teaches the formation of past participles of separable verbs. Imperfect modal verbs (singular) are introduced as pupils learn about past lives and experiences within the cultural context of migration in Germany.

Past lives and experiences: imperfect modal verbs, perfect tense

Like and would like: 'mögen', 'möcht-', plural rules, large numbers

School and future ambitions: plural 'mögen' and 'möcht-'

Places you like and prefer: verbs + indirect object, 'gefallen', 'mögen'

Places you like and prefer: suffix -ung, comparatives, questions

Volunteering: revisit perfect tense

Volunteering: discuss photos, word order with two-verb structures

This unit revisits a broad range of known grammar and vocabulary  and present and past tenses, as pupils learn how to use their knowledge in new contexts of personal goals, travel destinations and volunteering.

Ambitions and destinations: 'mögen', 'möcht-', past tenses

Answering the question 'Why?': two-verb structures with 'um ... zu'

Why? Two-verb structures with 'um ... zu', imperfect modals 'durfte', 'sollte'

Journeys past and present: time-manner-place word order in the present tense

Journeys past and present: time-manner-place in the perfect tense

Make changes at home: prepositions and verbs of location and movement

This unit revisits a broad range of known grammar and vocabulary and introduces 'um...zu' +infinitive. New imperfect modals sollte and durfte are practised, together with further consolidation of Time-Manner-Place word order. Prepositions and cases for movement and location are consolidated.

Positive experiences: word order and prepositions

At school: word order in sentences with two objects

A school exchange: plural direct and indirect object pronouns

A school exchange: verbs with 'an', 'auf', 'für', 'vor', reflexive verbs

A school exchange: verbs with prepositions 'an', 'auf', 'für', 'vor'

What makes us happy? Authentic texts, relative pronouns and comparatives

This unit revisits the present tense, introducing sentences with two objects, and verbs with direct or indirect objects. Verbs with prepositions an, auf, für and vor are introduced.

School exchange: verbs with prepositions

The environment: verbs with prepositions,  da-compounds

The environment: wo- and da-compounds

Discussion: opinion verbs, word order with 'dass', 'doch'

This unit extends pupils' knowledge of verbs and prepositions by introducing wo- and da- compounds wo/darauf, wo/dafür, wo/damit, wo/davor and wo/darüber. Conversational particles (doch, echt, natürlich) are introduced to facilitate a discussion on environmental issues.

The environment: verbs of opinion

A new place: time-manner-place, imperfect modal verbs

Travels and places: present and imperfect modal verbs

A charity concert: past participles, verb stress, 'kein' vs 'nicht'

A charity concert: sentence intonation, object pronouns

This unit consolidates grammar knowledge of word order - time before manner before place - and revisits imperfect modals. The present and perfect tense are revisited with verbs plus indirect objects.

Places and projects: imperfect modal verbs

Fairy tales: diminutives, singular imperfect tense

Fairy tales and poetry: da- and wo- compounds, imperfect

Der Rattenfänger: understanding a Grimm brothers' fairy tale, imperfect tense

This unit introduces the imperfect (simple past) tense of regular and highly frequent irregular verbs in singular persons.Da- compounds are revisited along with the perfect tense and the historic present in the narration of a story.

Storytelling: imperfect tense

Past and future goals: revisiting tenses and word order, translation skills

Ambitions of famous young Germans: reading skills, questions, imperfect modals

This unit revisits past, present and future tenses, modal verbs and word order rules as pupils apply known grammar and vocabulary in reading and speaking about past and future goals.

Past ambitions and future goals: past, present and word order

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