Year 7 German Term 1

Term 1.1 Resources

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Year 7 Term 1.1 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: In the classroom, Greetings, Locating people & things: Where is …?

Key ideas: Naming and locating things

Grammar: Definite articles (singular) der, die, das - Row 1 (nominative); SEIN / ist; capital letters for nouns,

Year 7 Term 1.1 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: In the classroom, Identifying things: What is it?

Key ideas: Naming and locating things

Grammar: Definite articles (singular) der, die, das

Year 7 Term 1.1 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Describing attributes: What is it like?

Key ideas: Describing things

Grammar: Indefinite articles (singular) ein, eine, ein - Row 1 (nominative); SEIN / ich bin / ist;, definite articles

Year 7 Term 1.1 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Describing things:, What is it (not) and what is it (not) like?

Key ideas: Describing things

Grammar: Negation: nicht + adjective; kein + nouns (Row 1-Nominative) , SEIN - ich bin / du bist, WISSEN / weiß, Alphabet

Year 7 Term 1.1 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Belongings:, Who has what?

Key ideas and grammar: Talking about having

Grammar: Definite articles (singular) - Row 2 (accusative); HABEN er/sie hat;, definite articles (singular) Row 1 (nominative)

Year 7 Term 1.1 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Belongings: I have 'the' (only) or 'a' (one of many):

Key ideas: Talking about having

Grammar: Indefinite articles (singular) - Row 2 (accusative); , HABEN ich habe / du hast / hat;, indefinite articles (singular) Row 1 (nominative); , SEIN / ich bin / du bist / ist

Year 7 Term 1.1 Week 7

Context, communication, and culture: Asking and answering questions about having

Key ideas: Talking about having

Grammar: HABEN / ich habe / du hast; VSO questions; , negation with kein + nouns R2 (accusative); mein/meine/mein R1 (nominative)

Term 1.2 Resources

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Year 7 Term 1.2 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Who does what?, What someone else does in school

Key ideas: Talking about doing

Grammar: Present tense weak verbs: Long (infinitive) and short (3rd person singular) forms of several high-frequency weak verbs

Year 7 Term 1.2 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: What you do and what someone else does , in school and at home

Key ideas: Talking about doing

Grammar; Present tense weak verbs: 1st person singular vs, 3rd person singular; , subject pronouns er/sie meaning 'he', 'she';

Year 7 Term 1.2 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Asking and answering questions about activities at home

Key ideas: Asking about doing

Grammar: Present tense weak verbs: 1st person singular vs 2nd person singular; , VSO questions plus question words wo, was, wer, wie; adverb position - verb + nicht, oft, kaum, nie

Year 7 Term 1.2 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Who does what?, Manipulating infinitive verbs

Key ideas: Asking about doing

Grammar: Present tense weak verbs: 1st, 2nd, 3rd persons singular ZEIGEN / zeigt, VSO questions plus question words wo, was, wer, wie;

Year 7 Term 1.2 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Narrating with nouns - using gender and words for 'the' correctly

Key ideas: Using nouns

Grammar: articles and present tense to narrate actions, Definite articles - singular

Year 7 Term 1.2 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Christmas, Number: is there one or are there many?, Weihnachtslieder,

Key ideas: Talking about more than one thing

Grammar: Plurals - der/das , Rule 1] - umlaut + e, Rule 2] -el/-en/-er NO CHANGE, plural article = 'die' , [Text: O Tannenbaum]

Year 7 Term 1.2 Week 7

Context, communication, and culture: Christmas, Talking about presents you wish for, St.Nikolaus, das Christkind

Key ideas: Talking about about more than one thing

Grammar: SEIN ist / sind;, Plurals Rule 3] - die --> +(e)n, Plural article = 'die', Plurals - der - umlaut + e, -el/-en/-er NO CHANGE