KS3 & KS4 German curriculum

This unit builds on pupils' prior understanding strong and weak verbs. With the introduction of new vocabulary including time adverbials, they develop their knowledge in talking about when they do things. They will explore changes in word order when using time phrases and how to apply these to both statements and questions. Later in the unit, they will learn about the use of different cases (accusative and dative) to express movement or location with 'in' and 'auf'. This lays the foundation for later units addressing movement versus location.

1. What I do and when: inversion in statements with adverbs of time
2. What others do and when: main clause word order and inversion
3. What you and others do and when: time phrases as nouns and adverbs
4. Who does what and when? 'Wann?' and inversion
5. In and into places: prepositions 'in' and 'auf' (accusative and dative)
6. Where are you and where are you going? 'In' and 'auf' (accusative and dative)

• Pupils know a range of high frequency weak and strong verbs in singular persons and 1st and 3rd person plural.
• Pupils know the verb 'können' in singular persons and the two-verb rule.
• Pupils know a wide range of previously taught high frequency vocabulary and cognates.
• Pupils know a wide range of sound-symbol correspondences, including vowels and [v], [r], [eu] and [th]