German
Curriculum Leader: M Dubray
KS3 German
| Year 7 | Overview of Topics Covered |
| Autumn 1 | Meine Welt und ich. Name, numbers, birthday, alphabet, where you live, describing personality. |
| Autumn 2 | Familie und Tiere Pets, family members, describing people, colours, birthdays and belongings. |
| Spring 1 | Freizeit. Sports and hobbies. Frequency. Days of week and months. |
| Spring 2 | Freizeit continued. Online activities. |
| Summer 1 | Schule ist klasse. School subjects, opinions. Days of week, time, describing teachers and school facilities and rules. |
| Summer 2 | Gute Reise. Describing your town. Shopping, buying food and drink. Holiday plans. |
| Year 8 | Overview of Topics Covered |
| Autumn 1 | Ich liebe Ferien. Comparing cities. Describing past holiday. Saying how you travelled. Describing the weather. |
| Autumn 2 | Bist du ein Medienfan? Stating film preferences. Discussing TV shows. Reading habits. Discussing online activities. Stating and justifying opinions. |
| Spring 1 | Klassenreisen. Discussing a school trip, school rules. Describing a typical day. Directions. |
| Spring 2 | Klassenreisen continued Describing a festival. |
| Summer 1 | Wir gehen aus. Clothes, planning a date, making plans to go out. Discussing a date. |
| Summer 2 | Bleib gesund. Saying what you eat for a typical breakfast. Learning about German food, recipes and healthy lifestyle. |
| Year 9 | Overview of Topics Covered |
| Autumn 1 | Vorbilder Discussing your role models, life experiences. Body parts and overcoming misfortune. |
| Autumn 2 | Meine Ambitionen Talking about your ambitions, jobs and reasons for doing different jobs. Describing work experience. |
| Spring 1 | Musik. Discussing types of music and preferences. |
| Spring 2 | Musik continued Discussing bands and describing musical festivals.Ma vie en musique continued Comparing secondary and primary schools. |
| Summer 1 | Die Kindheit. Talking about your childhood, childhood activities . Comparing primary and secondary schools. Literary texts. |
| Summer 2 | Rechte und Pflichten. Age limits and laws, saying what’s important to you and why, comparing life now and in the past. |
KS4 GCSE German – AQA
| Year 10 | Overview of Topics Covered |
| Autumn 1 | School Theme 3 School subjects. Uniform, comparisons with primary school. Typical day. School rules. German school system, school trips and exchanges. |
| Autumn 2 | Freetime Theme 1 Leisure activities. Hobbies, reading habits and music preferences. TV and cinema. Sport, celebrations and festivals. |
| Spring 1 | Relationships Theme 1 Describing photos, physical descriptions of people. Friendship and family relationships. Views on marriage. Weekend activities comparing life now and in the past. |
| Spring 2 | Exchange Theme 2 Greeting exchange partner. Describing home. Typical day. Food and drink. Shopping for food. Traditional German meals. |
| Summer 1 | Exchange Theme 2 Healthy lifestyle. Using social media and technology. Pros and cons of technology. |
| Summer 2 | Town Theme 2 Transport, buying train tickets, booking a hotel. Describing accommodation. Places in town and directions. |
| Year 11 | Overview of Topics Covered |
| Autumn 1 | Holidays Theme 2 Countries and holiday locations. Weather. Types of holiday and describing past holidays. Holiday plans. Describing pros and cons of towns. |
| Autumn 2 | World of work Theme 3 Jobs, places of work, hours and pay. Work experience. Job descriptions, dream jobs benefits of foreign language learning. |
| Spring 1 | The global dimension Theme 2 Describing festival/events. Global sporting events. Social problems for young people. Homelessness and poverty. |
| Spring 2 | Revision of topics from all 3 themes as necessary. Revision and preparation for speaking exam. Focus on teaching exam skills. |
| Summer 1 | Final exams. |
| Summer 2 |
