GERMAN

Teacher i/c Subject: Miss J. Wilkinson

Aims and Objectives for Year 9

We aim to provide the linguistic skills and necessary background information needed to communicate effectively in a variety of defined settings within specific topic areas.

The linguistic skills are defined as listening, speaking, reading and writing, and learning skills of a more general application are promoted too (e.g. memorising, drawing of inferences, using a dictionary etc).

Course Description (MFL1)

Term 1 Going to the doctor

Keeping fit

Daily routine

Breakfast foods.

Term 2 Fruit and vegetables

Shops

Pocket money

Family

Term 3 Talking about a journey

Staying with a German family

Making suggestions

Giving directions.

Course Description (MFL2)

Term 1 Rooms in a house

Description of a bedroom

Places in a town

Activities in a town.

Term 2 Counting to 100

Snack Foods

Learning and practising German

The weather

Telling the time

Holidays.

Term 3 Buying train tickets

Lost property

Writing postcards

Parts of the body.

Range of Activities

Pupils will work in pairs, small groups and full groups, as well as participating in self-supported study. Pupils are encouraged to form penfriendships and take part in the annual Exchange visit to Itzehoe. Pupils also develop reading skills through individual reading schemes. The Graded Objectives scheme is used to help develop speaking skills.

Homework Requirements

There will be 2 homeworks per week. Generally, this will mean one learning homework, and one other homework based on speaking, reading or writing. Both homeworks are equally important.

National Curriculum Assessment Procedures

Work is assessed throughout lessons, but formal assessments take place at the end of each ‘section’ of work.