Das Reporterteam 3

Scope and Sequence

3 2 1

Neue Horizonte

 What is important to teenagers today?

 What can we learn from a stay abroad?

MINIPROJEKT 1

Create a collage about your qualities, interests, and concerns

MINIPROJEKT 2

Write a forum post about your planned stay abroad

ABSCHLUSSPROJEKT

Make an introductory video for a student exchange

Immer in Kontakt

 What importance does the Internet have in young people’s lives today?

 What are our responsibilities as digital citizens?

MINIPROJEKT 1

Create a test about digital habits

MINIPROJEKT 2

Create a poster about safe Internet use

ABSCHLUSSPROJEKT

Have a group discussion about authenticity on the Internet

Wohin geht mein Weg?

 How can we use our skills and strengths for building our future?

 How can we determine what career path suits us best?

MINIPROJEKT 1

Create a poster advertising your skills for a swap meet

MINIPROJEKT 2

Create a biographical video

ABSCHLUSSPROJEKT

Write a letter to your future self

COMMUNICATION LANGUAGE CULTURE

Review of communicative goals presented in Level 2

• describing personalities and discussing the importance of friendships

• understanding young people’s preferences and concerns

• expressing your opinion on the role of young people in society

• identifying reasons for a stay abroad and asking for more information in an email

• understanding a report on an experience abroad, discussing pros and cons, and encouraging others

Review of vocabulary and structures presented in Level 2

VOCABULARY

• personalities, moods, and values

• the role of young people in society

• the particles ja, echt, and richtig

• a personal experience abroad

• useful phrases for describing pros and cons

STRUCTURES

• relative clauses

• infinitive clauses with zu

• the verb sollen

• indirect questions with ob

• the Präteritum of können, müssen, and wollen

Review of people, places, products, and practices in German-speaking countries

• coming of age in Germany: the novel and movie Tschick

• Shell Jugendstudie: a study on the situation of young people in Germany

• the fairy tale Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten

• the European scholarship ERASMUS

• German American partnership programs

• understanding information about an online service offered by an app

• exchanging opinions about people’s social media behavior

• recommending best online practices

• recognizing relevant information in a long text

• writing polite, effective emails

VOCABULARY

• social media and technologies

• asking for clarification and expressing uncertainty

• Internet safety

• useful phrases for writing emails

STRUCTURES

• verbs with the accusative and dative case

• the nominalization of verbs

• expressing purpose with um … zu, damit, zum, zur

• nicht dürfen and nicht müssen

• indefinite pronouns etwas, nichts, alle, alles, niemand, jemand

• the genitive

• describing personal skills and talents

• expressing wishes and goals for the future

• identifying professions that might suit you best

• understanding information about a profession or a job profile and giving career advice

• writing a cover letter for an internship

VOCABULARY

• personal skills and strengths

• adverbs of degree

• wishes and goals

• education and training

• professions and job profiles

STRUCTURES

• prepositional adverbs with da(r)-

• the Präsens to express the future

• the subjunctive II of sein, haben, dürfen, können, and müssen

• the verb werden as a main verb

• the subjunctive II for polite requests and suggestions

• the compound conjunctions sowohl … als auch and nicht nur

… sondern auch

• relative clauses with prepositions in the accusative and dative

• book exchanges in Germanspeaking countries

• the German cartoonist Peter Butschkow

• the German painter Albrecht Dürer

• German influencers

• European Data Protection Day

• Netiquette and best online practices in German social media

• Instagirl, a novel by Annette Mierswa

• digital art in the Germanspeaking countries

• volunteer activities and services in German-speaking countries

• the career orientation project Was bin ich?

• school qualifications in German-speaking countries

• Volunteering, vocational training, and degree programs in German-speaking countries

• PISA, an international school performance study

• the initiative Klischeefrei

• mandatory and voluntary internships

• the world of automotive professions in Germany

Das Reporterteam 3

5 4

Früher und heute

 How has daily life changed over the last century?

 How do historical events influence us?

MINIPROJEKT 1

Present a collage comparing the past and the present

MINIPROJEKT 2

Present a famous historical person

ABSCHLUSSPROJEKT

Create a photo essay: A journey through time

Eine bessere Welt

 What can people do to improve life in the future?

 How do we imagine our future?

MINIPROJEKT 1

Create a poster about an innovative school

MINIPROJEKT 2

Record a podcast about our everyday life in 50 years

ABSCHLUSSPROJEKT

Create a magazine related to the future

Kunst für alle

 How does art reflect a culture’s aesthetics and traditions?

 What makes books and films interesting or attractive?

MINIPROJEKT 1

Present art projects in your area or state

MINIPROJEKT 2

Create a collection of your class’ favorite books or movies

ABSCHLUSSPROJEKT

Create an audioguide about a painting

COMMUNICATION

• understanding a text about education in the past

• describing objects from the past

• understanding an article about historic events

• understanding a biography

• narrating a past experience

VOCABULARY

• comparing the past and present

• time markers

• objects from the past and present

• Germany’s recent history

• expressions for storytelling STRUCTURES

• the prepositions vor and seit

• the formation of the past participle

• the Präteritum of regular verbs and irregular verbs

• subordinate clauses with als

Scope

and Sequence

• Soapbox races

• Turnvereine in Germany

• the movie Der ganz große Traum

• school in Germany in the past and today

• Weimar and the Bauhaus

• Trabi, a DDR icon

• German literature and movies about the division of Germany and the fall of the Berlin Wall

• Weimar European City of Culture

• the poets J. W. von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller

• sharing reactions to a current event and discussing its significance

• proposing ways to reduce food waste

• understanding an article about a scientific discovery and discussing innovative technologies

• making predictions about the future and reacting to others’ predictions

• imagining and describing household technology in the future

VOCABULARY

• reusing products and avoiding food waste

• the environment and technology

• expressions for sharing one’s reactions to current events and news

• the future and smart home technologies STRUCTURES

• verbs in the passive present tense and in the passive past tense

• the past participle as an adjective

• adjective declension with and without articles

• the Futur

• nicht brauchen … zu + infinitive

• the prefix irgend + -wie, -wo, -wer, -wann

• describing different kinds of art and discuss them

• describing a painting and express feelings about it

• finding out which literary genres suit me best and understand descriptions of imaginary situations.

• summarizing a story’s plot

• understanding someone else’s opinion about a book

VOCABULARY

• artistic movements

• describing a painting

• literary genres

• story elements, actions, and characters

• expressions to summarize a plot, and to recommend and give an opinion on a book STRUCTURES

• adjectives in the comparative

• etwas and alles as articles

• the N declension

• subordinate clauses with da

• Nachhaltigkeitstage in Bern

• the Bern-based start-up Pretty Good Repair

• the European law Recht auf Reparatur

• two Swiss local initiatives for reducing food waste

• an innovative scientific discovery by a German student

• the technological-scientific organization VDE

• patents and scientific discoveries by young people in Switzerland

• Futurium, a museum on future in Berlin

• Das smarte Drehhaus, a rotating house in Germany

• Fritz Lang’s movie Metropolis

• Wim Wenders’ documentary Pina

• Pina Bausch and modern dance in Germany

• Sonntagsspaziergang in art: Carl Spitzweg, Otto Dix, and Fenja

• Street art in Graz

• books by German-speaking authors

• Ursula Poznanski, a famous Austrian writer

• Cornelia Funke, a bestselling German writer