KS3 & KS4 German curriculum

This unit expands pupils' ability to answer the question 'why' as they learn 'um...zu + infinitive' to express reasons. Pupils explore this in the context of helping others. They reactivate knowledge of past tense, word order (time, manner, place) in saying when, how and where they do things when describing journeys past and present. And they consolidate knowledge of prepositions and accusative and dative with articles with verbs of movement and location. Reflexive verbs are revisited and pupils practise talking about what goes where in a familiar context of making changes at home.

1. Answer the question 'why'? two-verb structures with 'um...zu'
2. Why? Two-verb structures with 'um...zu', imperfect modals 'durfte' 'sollte'
3. Journeys past and present: time-manner-place word order in the present tense
4. Journeys past and present: time-manner-place in the perfect tense
5. Make changes at home: prepositions with verbs of location and movement
6. Make changes at home: prepositions, determiners 'welcher', 'dieser', 'jeder'

• Pupils know the perfect tense of weak and strong verbs and the formation of past participles.
• Pupils know the present tense of verbs with indirect objects
• Pupils know the use of the accusative case for movement and dative case for location,
• Pupils know some modal verbs in the imperfect tense.