KS3 & KS4 German curriculum

This unit revisits a wide range of grammar with known and new vocabulary in the context of future plans and career aspirations. Knowledge of modal verbs is extended with practice on contrasting meanings, for example dürfen vs können. Pupils express their future intentions with new grammar structures, including 'würd-' , with 'hätte' and 'wäre' and with new conjunctions 'sobald' and 'solange'. Specific context includes youth laws and responsibilities from the age of 16, career options, work experience, and authentic articles on young Germans as role models and their career aspirations.

1. Hitzefrei: 'müssen' vs 'sollen', 'sollen' vs 'sollte'
2. Was darf man ab wann? 'Dürfen' vs 'können', wh- questions and modal verbs
3. Das Pfandsystem: word order with 'wenn', inversion, plural nouns
4. Berufe: 'werden' + infinitive, wh-questions in future and conditional tenses
5. Wenn ich 16 bin: würd- with gern and lieber, imperfect subjunctive hätte, wäre
6. Pläne: word order with 'sobald', 'solange' and 'wenn'
7. Berufserfahrung: verbs with indirect objects, dative pronouns
8. Berufserfahrung: 'Sie', 'Ihnen', interrogatives 'wer', 'wen', 'wem'
9. Meine Pläne: adding -er to verb stems for male agent nouns, extended writing
10. Junge Deutsche: neuter adjectival nouns, nominalisation, adjectival agreement
11. Junge Deutsche: telling the time, uses of 'es'
12. Junge Deutsche: weak plural masculine nouns, feminine person nouns

• Pupils know modal verbs in the present tense.
• Pupils know and can use 2-verb structures.
• Pupils know the future tense with werden plus infinitive, with the English meanings 'will' and 'going to'.
• Pupils know how to ask questions with modal verbs and with or without question words.
• Pupils know how to use word order 3 with prepositions like 'wenn'.
• Pupils know and can use verbs with indirect objects.
• Pupils know adjective agreement with nouns and the indefinite article.