Year 9 German Term 1

Term 1.1 Resources

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Year 9 Term 1.1 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Deutschland sucht den Superstar, Talking about what you do generally and are doing now: being a musician, Deutschland sucht den Superstar

Key ideas: Talking about actions in the present

Grammar: Present tense - all persons (except 2nd person plural), with simple (I do) and ongoing (I am doing) functions; gern; vs.O questions; WO2; WH-questions

Year 9 Term 1.1 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Es war einmal, Talking to different groups of people; a fairy tale in several parts

Key ideas: Talking about actions in the present

Grammar: Present tense - 2nd person plural ihr (weak verbs), seid (sein), habt (haben); revisit du / Sie; verbs with direct and indirect objects

Year 9 Term 1.1 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Ihr bereitet eine Party vor, Preparing for an event, Birthdays; 99 Luftballons

Key ideas: Talking about actions in the present

Grammar: Present tense (strong verbs) - contrast ihr vs. er/sie/es, numbers 1 - 100, plural rules 1-5, questions

Year 9 Term 1.1 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Saying what you see: describing pictures, Places and paintings in German-speaking countries

Key ideas: Talking about actions in the present

Grammar: Revisit negation: kein + indefinite article vs. nicht + definite article, adjective, verb, possessive; adjective R1 (indefinite articles); adjective agreement R2 and R3 (indefinite articles)

Year 9 Term 1.1 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Talking about what people did and have done: finding out about people's lives, Famous lives: Martin Luther, Marie Tharp, Steve Irwin, Ilkay Gündoğan

Grammar: Revisit past (perfect) - including ihr; haben & sein; pp formation (be-, ver-, er-, -iert, ge-stem-en, stem-changes [ei] - [ie], [(i)e] - [o], [i] - [u], no change ver-, ent-); imperfect - hatte, war, es gab, vs.O questions in past, historic present

Year 9 Term 1.1 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Talking about when: now and in the past, Famous lives

Key ideas: Talking about actions in the past

Grammar: Word order 3 with conjunctions and single verb structures: use of wenn + present, als + past to mean when; bevor, nachdem; verb and noun pairs [-ung], feminisation of person nouns [-in]; plural rule 6 (-in --> -innen); (das Gendersternchen*), calendar years

Year 9 Term 1.1 Week 7

Context, communication, and culture: Then and now: experiences from childhood, Two Germanys

Key ideas: Talking about actions in the past

Grammar: Past (perfect - haben & sein) - all persons; imperfect - hatte, war, es gab; WO3 conjunctions (single verb structures); früher (used to)

Term 1.2 Resources

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Year 9 Term 1.2 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Wishes, Am Weihnachtsmarkt, At the market: talking about what you would like

Key ideas: Saying what you would like (using möcht-)

Grammar: Revisit R1 (nom.) & R2 (acc.) determiners: definite articles, diese(r,s); jede(r,s); alle; welche(r,s); WO2; möcht- (singular persons) + noun, and + infinitive, (one and two-verb structures); comparatives

Year 9 Term 1.2 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Future plans, Talking about challenges

Key ideas: Saying what you will do

Grammar: Revisit adjective endings R1(nom.) & R2(acc.) with definite articles; future tense: plural forms werden + infinitive; möcht-(plural persons); vorhaben, revisit zu + infinitive ; verb stem + -er = person noun

Year 9 Term 1.2 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Priorities, Talking about what is important

Key ideas: Talking about what it is important to do

Grammar: Uses of the infinitive: es ist + adjective, zu + infinitive; modals + infinitive, including separable verbs, capitalisation of nouns; nominalisation of verbs

Year 9 Term 1.2 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Gute Freunde, Talking about things you do and have done with and for others

Grammar: Revisit R2 ohne, für & R3 prepositions mit, von with R2 (acc.) & R3 (dat.) singular pronouns and singular possessive adjectives; revisit past (perfect) tense

Year 9 Term 1.2 Week 5

Revision / Assessment week

Year 9 Term 1.2 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Tägliche Routine, Talking about everyday actions and routines, (Tiertrainerin Tatjana Zimek)

Key ideas: Talking about self-directed actions

Grammar: Reflexive use of verbs [1] - reflexive vs.. non-reflexive use (meaning change & no meaning change) 1st, 2nd, 3rd persons singular; 24-hr clock

Year 9 Term 1.2 Week 7

Context, communication, and culture: Feste und Traditionen, Talking about festivals and traditions, (Oktoberfest, Weihnachten in der Schweiz, Ramadan, Eid-al-Fitr, Ostern, Karneval)

Key ideas: Talking about self-directed actions

Grammar: Reflexive use of verbs [2] - reflexive vs.. non-reflexive use 1st, 2nd, 3rd persons plural; 12-hr clock