KS3 & KS4 German curriculum

Pupils apply previously taught grammar in a number of different contexts, including gap years and volunteering, and exploring places and customs. Pupils revisit the past and present tenses, ask and answer spoken questions, and develop confidence in listening and responding to longer passages.

1. Mein Brückenjahr: perfect tense stem changes, perfect tense questions
2. Freiwilligenarbeit: direct and indirect object pronouns, position of objects
3. Freiwilligenarbeit: preposition 'bei', 'bei' and 'am' and nominalised infinitive
4. Museen: formal imperatives with 'sie', informal imperatives with 'du' and 'ihr'
5. Wie komme ich am besten? Formal vs informal questions
6. Das Wattenmeer: present tense weak and strong, present tense reflexives
7. Tłusty Czwartek: imperatives 'du' 'ihr' 'Sie'
8. Recyclen: formal vs informal questions 'du' 'ihr' 'Sie'
9. Feste: present tense weak and strong
10. Flüsse in Deutschland: negation, sondern, entweder...oder, weder...noch
11. Pferd geht spazieren: comparative adjectives including with spelling changes
12. Städte in Deutschland: dative definite and indefinite articles after 'laut'

• Pupils know the perfect tense of weak and strong verbs, including the patterns of common changes in spelling of past participle stems.
• Pupils know and can ask a wide range of questions in the perfect tense of verbs with haben or sein.
• Pupils know and can use direct and indirect objects.
• Pupils know the present tense of weak and strong verbs, including reflexive verbs.
• Pupils know and can ask a range of questions in formal and informal situations.
• Pupils know and can apply negation in sentences using 'nie, nicht, nichts, kein'.
• Pupils know a range of comparative adjectives.