German

Students in the top set in French in Year 9 start German. In Year 10, students have to continue with a Modern Foreign Language and can opt to continue with all three offered at Hasmonean. Most students continue with at least two languages to GCSE. Year 9 German students have one lesson per week. This increases to two per week in Year 10 and three in Year 11. Sixth Form German students have five periods per week in Year 12, and six periods in Year 13.

Teachers

• Mrs S. Booth
• Miss K. Watts

KS4: Year 9

Autumn Term

Section 1: Das bin ich

• Greeting people
• Saying your name
• Saying how you are
• Alphabet
• Greetings
• Numbers
• Where you come from
• Where you live and different accommodation
• Age
• Family
• Birthday
• Classroom objects.

Section 2: Essen und Trinken und Schule

• Likes and dislikes
• School subjects
• Days of the week
• Timetable
• Daily routine.

Spring Term

Section 3: Hobbys und Uhrzeit

• List of hobbies and verbs
• Telling the time
• Talking about when and where to meet
• Pets

Section 4: Kleidung und Lieblingssachen

• Adjectives
• Prices
• Describing clothes
• Describing people.

Summer Term

Section 5: Berufe

• List of jobs
• List of workplaces
• Talking about parents' jobs
• Adjectives of characteristics Section 6 : Orte in der Stadt und wie man dort hinkommt
• Different places in a town
• Preposition 'zu' and asking and giving directions
• Learning about 1st, second etc.
• Making roleplays about directions
• Revisit 'my home' and 'my room'.

Section 7: Das Wetter

• Learning about the weather
• Listening exercises with map
• Learning about the different region in Germany and in your area
• Seasons
• Weather and activities, what you do when it rains, the sun is shining etc.

KS4: Years 10-11 (GCSE)

German follow the Edexcel examination board specfication at GCSE.

Autumn Term

Thema 1: Ich persönlich

• Revision of personal details /family relationships / personal appearance.

Thema 2: Mein Zuhause

• My dream house
• Prepositions to describe where things are using dative case
• Daily routine using reflexive / separable verbs
• Helping at home.

Thema 3: Freizeit

• Hobbies
• Expressing opinions
• Pocket money / part time jobs
• Using connectives / conjunctions
• Fitness and sport
• Talking about an outing.

Thema 4: Die Schule

• Talking about school - uniform, preferences, etc
• Timetable
• Talking about events in the past
• Verbs of movement and separable verbs in the perfect tense.

Spring Term

Thema 5: Die Gesundheit

• Staying healthy
• Healthy eating / drinking
• Keeping fit
• Illnesses
• Going to the doctor.

Thema 6: Meine Stadt und meine Gegend

• Describing your town
• Discussing advantages and advantages of town and countryside living.

Thema 7: Einkaufen

• Shopping for clothes
• Prices
• Post office role plays
• Bank role plays
• Lost & found.

Summer Term

Thema 8: Berufe

• Masculine / feminine forms of jobs
• Descriptions
• Work experience
• After work experience.

Thema 9: Die Zukunft

• Future plans
• Using future tense.

Post 16

Sixth form study in German aims to achieve the following goals:

• To give students a growing awareness and understanding of both the world in general, and of society and other people through the study of actual and fictional source materials which reveal the ideas and experiences of others. Also, encouragement is given to the growth of moral awareness and the exercise of personal judgement.
• To prepare students for real and purposeful communication, not merely to convey information, but also to convey moods, attributes, emotions, relationships and opinions.
• To develop the linguistic ability of the students, so that they are able to perform easily and confidently in a foreign language environment (e.g. understanding TV and radio programmes and newspaper articles).
• To develop students' imagination by fostering creative writing which engages both the senses and the emotions.
• To experience more deeply the particular ways of seeing, thinking and feeling, represented by foreign cultures.

Year 12 (A/S)

Autumn term

• Food, diet, health
• Transport, travel and tourism
• Relationships, family, the generations, youth concerns
• Education, training and employment.

Spring term

• Current Affairs and media
• Social Issues, law, justice
• Leisure and the arts
• Business and Industry.

Summer term

• Information Technology
• Exam paper practice.

Year 13 (A2)

Autumn term

• Energy, pollution and the environment
• Politics and Citizenship
• The European Union
• World-wide problems.

Spring term

• Campaigning organisations and charities
• Customs, traditions, beliefs, religions
• Preparation for exams.

Summer term

• Revision and exam paper practice.