German

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT:  Mrs H Sackfield

OTHER MEMBERS OF STAFF: Miss F Bock and Mr M H Gracey.

Year 8

• Greeting people - giving details about yourself
• School - telling the time, food and drink
• Family - descriptions and characteristics, pets
• Free time - sport and hobbies
• House and home - where you live, describing house, how you help at home
• In town - shops, ordering snacks

Year 9

• Using the perfect tense - weather, activities, recap telling the time
• Holidays - using perfect tense, buying train tickets, lost property
• Fitness - naming parts of the body, ailments, doctors surgery, keeping fit
• Food and shopping - breakfast, at the market, types of shop
• Taking a journey - recap family, asking to borrow things, using the future tense
• Going out - inviting a friend out, clothes, birthday party, television programmes

Year 10

• Recap of topics in years 8 and 9
• School - describing subjects and giving opinions, future plans
• Free time - hobbies and interests, responding to invitations, describing books and films
• Holiday - planning a holiday, booking accommodation, coping with problems
• Town life - directions, public transport, advantages and disadvantages of where you live
• Shopping - times, prices, clothes, pocket money, post office, reporting lost property

Year 11

• Leisure - managing money, at the restaurant, finding out what's on, festivals
• Life at home - activities, meals, illness and injury, car breakdown or accident, teenage problems
• Work - part-time jobs, employment, applying for a job, career plans, work related issues
• Life as a teenager - personalities, relationships, health matters, environmental issues
  

Lower 6th

UNIT 1

• The family and relationships
• Rights and responsibilities
• Leisure
• Healthy living
• Education
• Jobs and careers

 
UNIT 2

• Mass media
• Pollution, conservation and environment
  

Upper 6th

UNIT 4

• The state and the individual
• Distribution of wealth
• Health issues
• Transport issues
• Science and technology
• Racism
• Crime and punishment
• Future of Europe
• Global issues

UNIT 5 Coursework

• German film
• Choice of any topic related to a German speaking country

PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

2007

A2 100%      AS 100%     GCSE 85%

2006

A2 100%     AS 100%    GCSE 100%

QUALIFICATIONS

GCSE  AQA

Listening examination - 25%
Speaking examination - 25%
Reading examination - 25%
Coursework - 25% of the total GCSE marks

AS  AQA

Unit 1 Listening, reading and writing paper
- 35% of the total AS marks
- 17.5% of the total A level marks

Unit 2 Essay writing paper                                      
- 30% of the total AS marks
- 15% of the total A level marks

Unit 3 Speaking examination                                     
- 35% of the total AS marks

A2 AQA

Unit 4 Listening, reading and writing paper - 17.5% of the total A level marks    

Unit 5 Coursework - 15% of the total A level marks

Unit 6 Speaking examination - 17.5% of the total A level marks

Search engines

www.google.de   www.yahoo.de  
For Austria type .at and for Switzerland type .ch 

Interactive learning sites

www.vokabel.com   (vocabulary games)
www.aiglon.ch/langlink/ (school site with fun links)
gut.languageskills.co.uk  (fun site with learning games)
www.channel4.com/learning   (look for "Extra" an interactive soap)
www.bbc.co.uk/education   (look for BITESIZE revision)

Freizeit (Leisure)

www.kino.de  (cinema listings)
www.bundesliga.de  (German football league with the likes of Bayern Munchen and Werder Bremen)
www.wetteronline.de  (German weather service)
www.bahn.de   (public transport timetables)

Umwelt (Environment)

www.bmu.de  (government environment site)
www.erneuerbare-energien   (government energy site)
www.erneuerbare-energien.de  (renewable energy)
www.klimaschutz.de  (climate protection)

Medien (Media)

www.dw-world.de  (deutsche Welle news programme)
www.netzwelt.com  (newspaper)
www.radiolocator.com (radio)
www.glist.com  (media listings)
www.jetzt.de/magmain.htlm  (magazine)
www.welt.de  www.jungwelt.de   www.zeit.de   www.express.de   www.focus.de  (newspaper and magazine sites)

die Politik (Politics)

www.spd.de   www.cdu.de   www.gruene.de   www.csu.de   www.fdp.de   (Political parties)
www.wahlomat.de  (main voting topics)
www.democ.uci.edu/democ/germany
www.europa.eu.int/abc/governments
www.bundesregierung.de   www.bund.de  (German government sites)

Verschiedenes (Miscellaneous)

de.wikipedia.org  (online encyclopaedia)
www.europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat   www.globus-infografik.de   (European statistics sites)
www.inter-nationes.de  (Goethe Institute site)

TEXT BOOKS

Years 8-11
LOGO! 1 , LOGO! 2, LOGO! 4 - Heinemann

Years 12+13
BRENNPUNKT - Nelson Thornes