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Year 12 German Curriculum

Autumn: Social development in Germany
  • Nature and the environment
  • Education
  • World of Work
Skills focus
  • Present tense in German
  • Definite and indefinite articles
  • Using adjectives correctly
  • Genders and cases
  • Pronouns
  • Word order
  • Modal verbs
  • Imperfect tense
  • Speaking practice and emphasis on organisation
Spring: Political and Artistic Culture
  • Music
  • The media
  • Fesitvals and Traditions

Cultural Study

  • Film: Das Leben der Anderen (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) OR Die Welle (Dennis Gansel)
Skills focus
  • Perfect and imperfect tense
  • Separable and reflexive verbs
  • Future tense
  • Comparatives and superlatives
  • Prepositions
  • Impersonal passive
  • Subjunctive 2 and the conditional
  • Essay structure and accuracy
  • Developing extended speaking answers
  • Developing strategies for reading and listening
  • Revision techniques
Summer: Political and Artistic Culture continued
  • Cultural heritage and identity in the German-speaking world
Assessment
  • AS-style internal assessments
  • Film analysis practice

Year 13 German Curriculum

Autumn: Immigration and Multicultural Society
  • The positive effects of integration
  • The challenges of immigration and integration
  • The state and social reaction to immigration

Literary Study

  • Play: Andorra – Max Frisch OR Der Besuch der alten Dame- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Skills focus
  • Nominative and copular verbs
  • Relative pronouns
  • Genitive case
  • Analytical essay writing
  • Debate and discussion
  • Advanced grammatical structures
  • Subjunctive I in indirect speech
  • Passive
Spring: Political Life
  • Society in the GDR before reunification
  • Events before reunification
  • Germany since reunification

Independent Research Project (IRP)

  • Student-led research on a Germanic topic of interest
Skills Focus
  • Revision of grammar points
  • Revision of exam techniques
Summer: Final Revision and Assessment

Full A Level exam preparation:

  • Speaking exam and written paper practice
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