German Curriculum Overview

German – 5 year Curriculum Map

Curriculum Intent: Students who study MFL at Hall Park Academy learn about a language and a culture other than their own. They gain an awareness of their place in the world as a global citizen, and the opportunities
that this affords them. They develop the ability to understand, and to communicate in, another language, which is a lifelong skill that can be applied to education, employment and leisure. Students develop their
reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in French and/or German, which in turn supports the development of these skills in their native language. Our core purpose is to provide the foundations for further
language study, be that French, German or another language, and to equip pupils for study, work and travel in other countries.

Term 17 Content Skills and Grammar Key Questions Assessment
Topics: Introductions, Weekly homework quizzes
family and pets  Introducing reading strategies to decode texts – cognates, top- Wie heißt du? simple verb structures
First 300 minutes down strategies Wie alt bist du? key items of vocabulary
greetings Wann hast du
name  Using phonics to support pronunciation Geburtstag? Half-termly extended writing (in
numbers 1-31  Responding to familiar questions from memory Wer ist in deiner booklet) – marked with literacy
alphabet and letter  1st, 2nd, 3rd person of ‘haben’ and ‘sein’ Familie? code and redrafted
strings  Forming sentences and short paragraphs independently Wie findest du deine
age, birthday, dates  Developing listening skills to recognise new vocabulary and Familie? Writing assessment – Band A-D
Describing Animals Wie bist du als Person?
Describing structures Hast du Haustiere? Listening and reading
Family members  Gender of nouns (der, die, das) assessment A-D
 Plural forms of nouns
 Use of simple negatives with ‘haben’ and ‘sein’
 Writing from memory including accurate use of 1st and 3rd person

verbs
 Expressing ideas about family members, i.e. opinions and reasons
 Strategies for learning vocabulary

Term 2 Topics: Free-time and school  Introducing present tense (all forms) with regular verbs (e.g. Was machst du in deiner Weekly homework quizzes
lernen) Freizeit? simple verb structures
 Free-time activities key items of vocabulary
 Places of leisure  Use of opinion phrases in first and third person (e.g ich liebe, er Sind deine Freunde
 School subjects liebt) sportlich? Half-termly extended writing (in
 Describing your booklet) - marked with literacy
 Introduce simple conjunctions (e.g. und, aber, denn) to extend Wo machst du deine code and redrafted
timetables (days, sentences and give reasons Hobbys?
simple times with Speaking assessment (peer-
‘um’, teachers)  Use positive and negative adjectives to justify opinions Was ist dein Lieblingsfach assessed) – Band A-D
 Opinions and reasons  Use of ‘gern’ und warum?
 School uniform and  Word order introducing the verb as the second idea and inversion Reading and listening
opinions of what you  Translation of single sentences into German using accurate verb Was wirst du nächstes Jahr assessment – Band A-D
wear to school lernen?
 Future plans for forms and word order
subjects you want to  Translation of longer chunks of text into English, including all detail Was lernst du nicht gern in
study next year  Introduce future tense – 1st, 2nd and 3rd person der Schule?
Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving)
 1st, 2nd, 3rd person of ‘haben’ and ‘sein’ Wie findest du deine
 Revisit word gender and plurals Schule?
 Revisit phonics and use to pronounce unfamiliar words
 Writing from memory including detailed descriptions and opinions Was trägst du
 Developing listening skills for transcription normalerweise in der
 Strategies for learning vocabulary Schule / am Wochenende?

Wie findest du deine
Schuluniform?

Topics: Learning about Using authentic materials to learn about German speaking countries Wie findest du die Weekly homework quizzes
Germany and Use of ‘es gibt’ and ‘es gibt kein(e)(n)‘ simple verb structures
Switzerland Adjectival agreements with the accusative Schweiz/Deutschland? key items of vocabulary
Opinions and reasons
 Describing life in Introducing conditional phrases (e.g. ich möchte) to give opinions on Möchtest du in der Half-termly extended writing (in
Germany and booklet) - marked with literacy
Switzerland (food, whether you would like to live in German speaking countries Schweiz / Deutschland code and redrafted
drink, clothes, towns Understanding longer chunks of written text
and cities) wohnen? Warum
Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving)
 Famous landmarks in Phonics and use to pronounce unfamiliar words (nicht)?
Germany and Gender of nouns (der, die, das)
Term 3 Switzerland Conjunctions to give reasons and extend sentences Writing and translation
Future tense to talk about future living plans assessment – Band A-D
 Giving your views of Writing from memory including detailed descriptions and opinions Speaking assessment (peer-
life in German Translation of single sentences into German using accurate verb assessed) – Band A-D
speaking countries
forms and word order
 Would you like to live Translation of longer chunks of text into English, including all detail
in German speaking Word order - inversion with es gibt and infinitives at the end of
countries ? Why
(not)? clauses with ich möchte
Developing listening skills (listening for gist using authentic listening
passages)

8 Content Skills and Grammar Key Questions Assessment

Term 1 Topics: Food and drink in German  Two verb structures including opinion structures  Was isst du/trinkst du gern? Weekly homework quizzes
speaking countries, TV and films  Present tense  Was wirst du morgen simple verb structures
Food and drink items you like and  Introducing time phrases key items of vocabulary
 Opinions with reasons (range of adjectives) essen?
dislike  Revisiting phonics  Wie findest du deutsches Half-termly extended writing (in
Mealtimes  Writing from memory including descriptions and booklet) - marked with literacy
What you will eat / drink in the opinions, Essen? code and redrafted
 Was guckst / siehst du
future present tense Writing and translation
Typical food and drink in Germany  Translation skills gern/nicht gern im assessment – Band A-D
 Reading skills for understanding detail from Fernsehen?
and German-speaking countries  Was wirst du am
Genres of TV programmes and longer passages Wochenende sehen?
of text  Wie findest du den Film
films with opinions and reasons
What you will watch in the future

Opinions of films (Ostwind) Ostwind? Warum?

Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving)

 Negative forms

 Future tense 1st, 2nd, 3rd person

Topic: Holidays and Tourism Introduce perfect tense (1st , 2nd and 3rd person) Wohin bist du letztes Jahr in den Weekly homework quizzes

 Describing a recent holiday in Introduce simple opinion structures for past tense Urlaub gefahren? simple verb structures

the past tense (weather, (es war) Wie bist du dorthin gefahren? key items of vocabulary

accommodation, transport, Introduce subordinating conjunctions (e.g. weil / da Wie war das Wetter?

activities) / obwohl) Was hast du gemacht? Half-termly extended writing (in

 Opinions of a recent holiday Practise word order with subordinating Wo wirst du nächstes Jahr in booklet) - marked with literacy
with reasons conjunctions den Urlaub hinfahren? code and redrafted

Term 2  Describing future holiday plans Responding to speaking questions from memory Peer-assessed speaking
 Introducing future tense time- Listening for detail assessment – Band A-D

phrases

 Giving opinions in the future Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving) Reading assessment – Band A-D

tense Phonics

Time phrases

Revisit word order (inversion with time phrases)

Revisit future tense including simple opinion

structures

Reading skills for understanding details from longer

passages of text

Term 3 Topics: House, Town and learning Key present tense structures in first and third Wie ist dein Haus? Weekly homework quizzes
about Berlin person to describe your house, where you live and Wie ist dein Zimmer? simple verb structures
Describing your house and rooms Berlin (using wohnen, haben, sein etc.) Wie findest du Eastwood? key items of vocabulary
Describing your hometown Using authentic materials to learn about Berlin Warum?
(listening and reading) Was hast du letztens in Half-termly extended writing (in
(buildings, facilities etc.) Key present tense structures to describe a photo deiner Stadt gemacht? booklet) - marked with literacy
Giving opinions on your house comparatives to compare 2 different towns / cities Was kann man in Berlin code and redrafted
Using a wider variety of conjunctions to extend machen/sehen/essen?
and hometown with reasons sentences (give reasons) Was gibt es in deiner Stadt? Listening assessment – Band A-
Taking about what you have done introducing question words Wo willst du in der Zukunft D
wohnen? Translation assessment – Band
recently in your local area Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving) Möchtest du in Berlin A-D
Future plans for going out in your ‘es gibt’ and ‘es gibt kein(e)(n)‘ wohnen? Warum (nicht)?
Past tense to describe what you have done in town
local area recently
Learning about Berlin – key facts, Future tense to describe what you will do at home /
in town in the future
landmarks, cuisine Conditional phrases (e.g. ich möchte) to give
Comparing Berlin to your opinions about whether you would like to live in
Berlin
hometown Opinions and reasons to give views on your house
Expressing whether you would Listening for gist
Reading skills for understanding details from longer
(not) like to live in Berlin with passages of text
reasons Phonics
Question words

9 Content Skills and Grammar Key Questions Assessment
Weekly homework booklet
Topics: Free-time & Holidays Irregular past tense participles (haben and sein) Was machst du gern / verb conjugation
nicht gern in deiner sentence-level translation
Free-time activities you like and Introducing a wide variety of adjectives for descriptions and Freizeit? Warum?
Was hast du in den Half-termly extended writing (in
dislike expressing opinions Sommerferien gemacht? booklet) - marked with literacy
Was hast du letztes code and redrafted
Expressing reasons for your Using simple comparatives Wochenende gemacht?
Wie war das Wetter? Writing and translation
opinions Extending sentences with extra detail (e.g. time phrases, Wie war dein letzter assessment – 1-9
Urlaub?
Describing where you normally people, places)

Term 1 go on holiday (place, time, who Word order - Time, manner, place
with, accommodation, Giving high level opinions with reasons in the past tense
activities, transport)  Translation skills – not always focusing on literal translation
Describing a recent holiday

(past tense) Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving)

Key regular and irregular verbs in the present tense (including

haben and sein)

Using gern and nicht gern

Regular perfect tense with haben and sein

Subordinating conjunctions (e.g. weil / da / obwohl)

Developing listening skills (listening for gist)

Negatives (nicht / kein)

Strategies for learning vocab

Topics: Technology & Using higher-level structures to give opinions Wie findest du die neue Weekly homework booklet
Technologien? verb conjugation
Environment  Structures for giving advantages and disadvantages sentence-level translation
Magst du Twitter /
Term 2 How you use new technologies  Comparatives and superlatives Facebook / das Internet? Half-termly extended writing (in
(mobile phones, computers, Using ‘ich würde’ to express the conditional booklet) - marked with literacy
Internet, Social media) Reading and listening for detail Ist Twitter besser als code and redrafted
Extending writing with extra details and opinions Facebook? Warum (nicht)?
Advantages / disadvantages of  Strategies to support writing from memory Reading and listening
new technology Formulating questions Wie hast du Technologie assessment
am Wochenende benutzt? Writing assessment – 1-9
Your favourite new
technologies Was für Apps hast du in
letzter Zeit benutzt?
Recent use of new technologies Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving)
(past tense)  Future tense (future plans for technology use and helping the Was hast du neulich
gemacht, um die Umwelt
How you will use technology in environment) zu helfen?
the future  Perfect tense (how you have used technology / helped the
Was würdest du tun,
What you do to help the environment recently) wenn…?
environment  Question words (du Zeit hättest, viel Geld
hättest, etc)
Things you have done recently

to help the environment

How you will be more
environmentally friendly in the
future

Topics: Healthy Living Possessive pronouns (e.g. mein/ dein / sein Bein) Bist du gesund? Weekly homework booklet
 Body parts and illness Using seit with the present tense Was hast du gestern verb conjugation
 Visiting the doctors Modal verbs with advice (e.g. du musst Tabletten nehmen) sentence-level translation
 Describing activities for how to revise for a writing paper gegessen?
 Walking, talking listening and reading papers (in lesson time) Willst du mehr Sport Preparation for Y9 Exams –
keeping fit Introduce structures for photo cards and role plays walking, talking listening and
 Saying how often you do Describing pictures treiben? reading papers, how to revise
Preparing for writing exams (strategies for extended writing Was könntest du machen, for writing paper (memory and
activities recall)
 Talking about healthy and from memory) um gesünder zu sein?
Learning from mistakes from year 9 exams
Term 3 unhealthy lifestyles Speaking exam (peer-assessed)
 What you have done recently Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving) – 1-9
Y9 Exam – writing and
which was healthy / Gender of nouns translation, reading, and
unhealthy Pluralisation of nouns listening – 1-9
 Future plans for improving Strategies for learning vocabulary
health Revision of present, past and future tenses

10 Content Skills and Grammar Key Questions Assessment

Topics: Family, Friends  Reflexive verbs  Wie ist deine Familie? Weekly skills homework

and Relationships  Relative pronouns  Was machst du gern mit booklets

 Talking about Family  Subjunctive forms of haben + sein (ideal family/partner) deiner Familie?  GCSE reading and listening

Relationships  Conditional tense (haben and sein)  Wie wäre dein idealer Partner questions

 Things you do with  Revisit oder deine ideale Partnerin?  12 mark translation
family / friends
 Justifying opinions with more complex reasons  Möchtest du heiraten? Kerboodle assessments for Unit
 Your views on 1 – reading, listening, writing
marriage  Increasing range of conjunctions to extend ideas and translation, speaking (peer-

 Marriage and its  Word order with conjunctions (normal, inversion and boot)

Term 1 alternatives Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving) assessed)
 Describing your ideal  Key regular and irregular verbs in the present tense Prepare key questions as
 Perfect tense (with haben and sein, regular and irregular) general conversation questions
partner

through activities with family

 Future tense (marriage)

 Conditional tense (ich möchte)

 Possessive personal pronouns

 Structures for use in photo cards and role plays

 Listening and reading skills

 Writing from memory

Term 2 Topics: Free-time  Wider range of adjectives to give opinions Was sind die Vorteile/Gefahren Weekly skills homework
&Technology  Effective revision for writing and speaking des Internets? booklets
 Free-time activities  Wider range of higher-level structures (especially for  GCSE reading and listening
(present, past and future opinions) Wie findest du Handys?
tenses)  Translation skills Wie wäre das Leben ohne questions
 Music and film  Using “in order to”  12 mark translation
 Eating out and food  Formulating questions Technologie?
and drink in TL countries  Extend comparatives and superlatives Was hast du gestern gegessen? Kerboodle assessments for
 Views on different new  Revision for reading and listening exams Würdest du je Vegetarier Units 2 and 3– reading,
technologies (favourite / listening, writing and
least favourite and why Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving) werden wollen? translation, speaking (peer-
 Dangers of technology  Key regular and irregular verbs in the present tense Ist Sport wichtig in deinem assessed)
 Technology in the  Perfect tense through free-time activities and use of Prepare key questions as
future technology Leben? general conversation questions
 Could you live without  Future tense (free-time activities, future use of technology) Siehst du lieber Filme oder hörst
technology?  Conditional tense (sein)
 Revisit gern, lieber, am liebsten du lieber Musik?
Was willst du am Wochenende

machen?

 Structures for use in photo cards and role plays
 Strategies for learning vocabulary
 Active revision for writing exams (writing from memory)

Term 3 Topics: Customs & Festivals &  Imperfect tense (what was your room like when you were  Warst du je bei einem Festival Weekly skills homework
Home & Town younger) oder Konzert? booklets
 GCSE reading and listening
 Describing your  Strategies for revising for speaking exams Was hast du zu Weihnachten
home and ideal  Revising for the writing exam gemacht? questions
home  Learning from mistakes from the year 10 exams  12 mark translation
 Active revision for speaking exams Was wirst du zu Ostern
 Talking about your  Reviewing speaking exams to improve future performance machen? Kerboodle assessments for
local area Units 4 and 5– reading,
Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving) Geht es zu Ostern mehr um listening, writing and
 Advantages of your  Key regular and irregular verbs in the present tense Religion oder Schokolade für translation, speaking (peer-
region for tourists  Perfect tense through recent festivals / celebrations dich? assessed)
 Future tense (future celebrations, where you would like to
 Talking about Wo wohnst du? Prepare key questions as
different areas in live) Was sind die Vorteile und die general conversation questions
Germany  Conditional (haben, sein) (ideal home / town)
 Modal verbs können, műssen, sollen Nachteile deiner Gegend? Y10 Mock Exams – past GCSE
 What you do, have  Revisit structures of photo cards and role plays Was können Touristen in deiner papers: reading, listening,
done and will do in writing and teacher-assessed
your local area Stadt machen? speaking
Wo willst du in der Zukunft
 Future living plans
wohnen?
 Talking about Wie wäre eine ideale Stadt?
customs and Wie sah dein Zimmer aus, als du
traditions
ein Kind warst?
 Learning about
festivals in Germany

11 ContentTerm 1 Skills and Grammar Key Questions Assessment
Topics: Social & Global  Wider range of opinions and reasons Weekly skills homework
Issues, Travel &  Launch ‘Big Question’ reading and listening skills  Bist du gesund oder booklets
Tourism  Learning from mistakes in Y11 Mock 1 ungesund?  GCSE reading and listening
 Translation Skills (not missing out small words / key information)
 Social issues –  Bist du umweltfreundlich oder questions
homelessness, Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving) umweltfeindlich ?  Sentence-level translation
drugs, poverty  Using ‘müssen’ and ‘sollen’ (environment)
 Forming negatives with nicht / kein  Was sind die globalen Kerboodle assessments for Unit
 Global issues –  Comparatives Probleme heutzutage für die 1 – reading, listening, writing
problems and  Using um … zu structures Erde? and translation, speaking (peer-
solutions  Present, past and future tenses assessed)
 Conditional tense – volunteer work  Würdest du gern Prepare key questions as
 Travel and tourism  Active revision for speaking and writing exams Freiwilligenarbeit im Ausland general conversation questions
– holidays,  Structures for describing pictures and conducting role-plays machen?
accommodation,  Revising vocabulary for reading and listening Y11 Mock 1 - past GCSE papers:
activities, transport  Was könntest du machen, um reading, listening, writing and
anderen zu helfen? teacher-assessed speaking

 Was machst du gern und nicht
gern im Urlaub?

 Wohin willst du nächsten
Sommer in den Urlaub
fahren?

 Wo bist du letzten Sommer in
den Urlaub gefahren?

Term 2 Topics: School,  Improving reading skills through literary texts  Was lernst du gern oder nicht Weekly skills homework
Education and the  Wenn clauses (present /future tenses) gern in der Schule? booklets
World of Work  Responding to questions (reading and listening) in German  GCSE reading and listening
 Learning from mistakes in Y11 Mock 2  Wie findest du deine
 My studies – giving Schuluniform? questions
view on different Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving)  Sentence-level translation
subjects  Key regular and irregular verbs in the present tense  Was sind die Unterschiede
 Modal verbs (school rules) zwischen dem deutschen und Kerboodle assessments for
 Life at school /  Perfect tense(school trips, work experience) dem englischen Schulsystem Units 2 and 3– reading,
college – different  Future tense (future study and career plans) und wie findest du sie? listening, writing and
types of school,  Conditional tense (ideal school uniform / improvements to translation, speaking (peer-
typical school day,  Willst du an der Uni assessed)
recent school trips, school) studieren? Prepare key questions as
ideal school, work  Continue with ‘Big Question’ reading and listening skills general conversation questions
experience  Describing pictures and conducting role-plays (S/W)  Was ist dir wichtiger: Viel Geld
 Translation skills to embed verbs, tenses and translating high zu verdienen oder deinen Job Y11 Mock 2 - past GCSE papers:
 Education Post-16 – zu genießen? reading, listening, writing and
future study, frequency words (R/W) teacher-assessed speaking
university  Was wirst du nächstes Jahr
machen: eine Lehre oder
 Jobs, career choices Abitur?
and ambitions -
 Wie wäre eine ideale
Schuluniform?

future career plans,  Was für einen Job möchtest
your ideal job du?

 Wie war deine Grundschule
im Vergleich mit deiner
jetzigen Schule?

 Hast du ein Arbeitspraktikum
gemacht?

 Hast du eine Klassenfahrt
gemacht?

Topics: Final exam  Learning from Mistakes in Mock 2 exams (L/S/R/W) Weekly skills homework
revision and  Listening and reading skills via weekly Big question booklets
preparation  Practice in all four skills across all topic areas  GCSE reading and listening
 Effective practice for reading and listening exams
Term 3  Exam practice for listening and reading exams in more questions
 Sentence-level translation
challenging topics such as …
Festivals and traditions, social issues , global issues GCSE Speaking Exams (April /
May)
Skills and grammar to be revisited (interleaving) Final GCSE Exams
 Final tense revision (particular focus on tenses)
 Revision of complex grammatical structures (wenn clauses, high

level phrases)
 Active revision for speaking and writing exams
 Vocabulary learning