The Crypt German Department: Programme of Study Year 7
Autumn 1 Tasters: Sport What is a cognate? Skills: Taster lessons Introducing yourself, sports and opinions, German sportspeople. Grammar: Opinions and reasons, verb pullers, intensifiers. Assessment: Google Forms Quiz
Autumn 2 Family What is the difference between the nominative and accusative cases?
Summer 1 Where I live How do you form the present tense?
Summer 2 Summer Project How do you form the future tense?
END POINTS By the end of year 7, students will be able to…
Skills: Countries and Skills: School subjects, nationalities. Types of Skills: Numbers and opinions with reasons, house and locations, dates, family members, telling the time, days rooms and furniture, pets, physical of the week, school places in a town, town description including facilities, German Grammar: More regular descriptions, future hair and eyes. school system. present tense verbs and living plans. key irregulars, Grammar: Haben and Grammar: Verb gern/lieber/am Grammar: Adjective sein, plural adjective kickers, introduction to liebsten, verb is the endings in the endings, introduction verb conjugation in the second idea. accusative case, ein vs to the accusative case. present tense. kein, prepositions with Assessment: the dative case, future Assessment: Assessment: Grammar and tense with werden. Grammar and Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Vocabulary Quiz, Vocabulary Quiz, Translation Assessment: Speaking Listening Speaking
Recapping all year 7 skills and grammar. Completing summer projects. Introducing kann.
…express their opinions and justify them on the topics of family, sport, free time and where they live.
Mid-year exam
Spring 1 School What is the main word order rule in a German sentence?
Spring 2 Free time What is an infinitive and how can you tell? Skills: Sports and free time activities, preferences, adverbs of frequency.
End of year Exam
Assessment: Grammar and Vocabulary Quiz, Speaking
…understand the difference between the nominative and accusative cases and apply that to their writing and translation. …understand what an infinitive is and conjugate verbs in the present and future tenses. …understand the key word order rules in German, including verb pullers and verb kickers.