KS3 & KS4 German curriculum

In this unit, pupils explore the grammar covered in previous units in a rich cultural context of towns and regions in Germany and Austria, their history, traditions, renowned infrastructure and famous events. . The grammar is revisited in these contexts along with known and new vocabulary, allowing the pupils to consolidate and extend their comprehension and their production skills.

1. Die Sächsische Schweiz: 'man' + verb, 'Lieblings-' and 'Haupt-'
2. Badeschiff Berlin: possessive adjectives, modal verbs, 2-verb structures
3. 16 Bundesländer: numbers, articles following 'in', 'zu', 'nach'
4. Eine Reise: present tense, separable verbs, possessive adjectives
5. Die Wuppertaler Schwebebahn: past tense, past participles, time-manner-place
6. Romantische Straße: future tense, present tense with adverbs to express future
7. Düsseldorf: past participles of strong and irregular verbs, questions
8. Graz: word order rules, possessive adjectives
9. Bern: 'es gibt' vs 'da sind', determiners and prepositions
10. Berlin: 'wissen' vs 'kennen'
11. Das Ruhrgebiet: perfect tense irregular verbs, imperfect tense, 'früher'
12. Frankfurter Buchmesse: uncountable quantifiers, abstract adjectival neuter nouns

• Pupils know cardinal and ordinal numbers.
• Pupils know and can differentiate between 'es gibt' and (es) hat.
• Pupils know and can use modal verbs in the present tense and two verb structures.
• Pupils know the perfect tense with sein and haben.
• Pupils know the future tense with 'werden' plus infinitive.
• Pupils know word order 1, 2 and 3.
• Pupils know the irregular verb 'wissen' and can dinstiguish its meaning from 'kennen'.
• Pupils can identify and form compound nouns.
• Pupils know a number of different word patterns
• Pupils know a broad range of high frequency vocabulary with which they can apply their grammar and communicative knowledge.