KS3 & KS4 German curriculum

In this unit, pupils consolidate their knowledge of 'sein' and 'haben' in the context of Christmas traditions and songs in German speaking countries. Throughout the unit, they will extend their ability to label and describe items with plural nouns (using 4 of the 9 German rules for plurals) and numbers. They will also extend their range of questions.

1. Christmas: definite article 'die', plurals with umlaut +e, no change -el/-en/-er
2. Christmas: 'Es gibt' with plurals, the song 'O Tannenbaum'
3. Christmas traditions: 'sein' 3rd person singular and plural, plurals - +(e)n
4. Christmas traditions: singular and plural nouns
5. Saying what something is like: subject pronouns 'er', 'sie', 'es' for 'it'
6. What you and others have and what it is like: subject pronoun 'sie' for 'they'
7. Numbers 1-12: plurals adding umlaut + -er
8. How many? Ask questions and give statements with plural nouns

• Pupils know 'haben', 'sein' and a range of weak verbs in the infinitive and in singular forms.
• Pupils know the gender of pre-learned words.
• Pupils know a range of sound-symbol correspondences, including long and short vowels [a].[e]. [i], [o] and [u].
• Pupils know how to form verb-subject-object questions with question words.