Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Positive Erfahrungen, Anderen helfen, Helping others

Key ideas: Answering the question why

Grammar: um… zu + infinitive; weil/denn, zu + infinitive; revisit imperfect modals, add sollte(st), durfte(st)

Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Positive Erfahrungen, Wir reisen!, Journeys past and present, Liechtenstein, (Neuschwanstein)

Key ideas: Saying when, how, where you do things (using correct word order)

Grammar: TMP word order: revisit time before manner, time before place; pp formation

Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Positive Erfahrungen, Zu Hause, Making changes at home

Key ideas: Talking about what goes/is where

Grammar: Revisit R2 (acc) vs. R3 (dat) prepositions and articles with verbs of location and movement; reflexive use of verbs

Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: In der Schule, Preparing for a school exchange |Talking about things you do for others

Key ideas: Using two objects to say what you do for someone else

Grammar: present tense of verbs + indirect object; sentences with two objects; verbs + direct or indirect object, plural indirect object pronoun euch,uns, ihnen

Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Ein Schulaustausch, Talking about reactions and feelings

Key ideas: Using verbs with prepositions to give reactions and express feelings

Grammar: Verbs with prepositions an, auf, für, vor, reflexive and non-reflexive

Year 9 Term 3.1 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Was ist Glück?, What makes us happy?, Extended reading

Key ideas: Giving explanations

Grammar: relative pronouns (R1 nom.); wenn + WO3; comparative adjectives

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 1

Context, communication, and culture: Futur nur mit Natur!, Concerns about the environment

Key ideas: Using da- and wo-with prepositions to refer back to things

Grammar: Verbs + prepositions; Wo-and da-compounds wo/darauf, wo/dafür, wo/damit, wo/davor, wo/darüber R2 (acc.) & R3 (dat.) pronouns and prepositions

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 2

Context, communication, and culture: Futur nur mit Natur!, Presenting a case

Key ideas: Giving extended opinions

Grammar: (dass + WO3), Present modals; verbs of opinion, WO3 conjunction (dass) +2-verb structures, conversational particles (doch, echt, natürlich)

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 3

Context, communication, and culture: Orte und Projekte, Talking about new beginnings, German islands: Röhr, Helgoland, Rügen

Key ideas: Talking about past journeys

Grammar: TMP word order: time before manner before place; imperfect modals (vs. present modals)

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 4

Context, communication, and culture: Orte und Projekte, Planning a charity concert, Young German celebrities

Key ideas: Talking about past events

Grammar: Past (perfect) tense; present and perfect tense of verbs + indirect object; kein [R1,2]; past participle formation

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 5

Context, communication, and culture: Geschichten erzählen, Four fairy tales and a poem

Key ideas: Narrating a story (using the simple past)

Grammar: Imperfect (simple past) regular (and highly frequent irregular) verbs - 1st, 2nd, 3rd persons singular; revisit da-compounds

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 6

Context, communication, and culture: Geschichten erzählen, Extended Reading, der Rattenfänger (Brüder Grimm adapted),

Key ideas: Narrating a story (using the simple past), Text: der Rattenfänger (adapted Brüder Grimm)

Grammar: imperfect (simple past); past (perfect) tense; historic present

Year 9 Term 3.2 Week 7

Context, communication, and culture: Meine Ziele, Past and future goals, Famous young Germans - Edina Müller, Ali Can, Luisa-Marie Neubauer, Florian Wirtz

Key ideas: Talking about past and future goals

Grammar: Past (perfect); modals; future; TMP word order: time before manner before place