KS3 & KS4 German curriculum

This unit extends pupils' knowledge of German past tenses. The perfect tense with sein is revisited, change of state verbs added, and past participles of separable verbs taught. Pupils apply this knowledge in texts on famous Germans, and reactivate knowledge of years and dates in discussing their lives. Imperfect modal verbs plus all imperfect forms of haben and sein are taught. Pupils then apply this knowledge and revisit previous learning to learn about migrants' experiences past and present. An authentic text by a Syrian immigrant draws the learning together.

1. Famous people and their languages: perfect tense with sein, calendar years
2. Language and identity: change of state verbs, cardinal and ordinal numbers
3. Childhood experiences: imperfect modal verbs 'konnte', 'musste', 'wollte'
4. Childhood experiences: imperfect plural forms of 'sein' and 'haben'
5. Migration: imperfect modal verbs 'konnte', 'musste', 'wollte'
6. Migration: imperfect modal verbs, word order with two-verb structures
7. Poem- Seiltanz (Adel Karasholi): read, listen to and understand an authentic poem
8. Poem-Seiltanz (Adel Karasholi): understand the background to an authentic poem

• Pupils know the imperfect tense hatte, war and es gab.
• Pupils know how to say years and dates in German.
• Pupils know how to ask questions in the perfect tense.
• Pupils know a range of conjunctions using word order 1, 2 or 3.
• Pupils recognise and can use compound nouns.
• Pupils know how to use separable verbs in the present tense in a word order 1 clause.