AC9LG6U02 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor use knowledge of modelled grammatical structures and formulaic expressions to compose and respond to texts, using appropriate punctuation and textual conventions

Elaborations

• • Elaboration understanding and applying punctuation rules, including the meaning and use of full stops and commas in ordinal and decimal numbers, for example, die 3. Klasse, 9,50 Euro, etc., and noticing distinctive punctuation features of personal correspondence in German, Hallo Annette!, Lieber Klaus, etc., followed respectively by upper or lower case for the beginning of the first sentence
• • Elaboration referring to a person, place or object using the nominative and accusative definite and indefinite articles, for example, Ich habe einen Bruder, Der Hund hat den Ball, and negating using kein and noting the differences in structure from English, for example, Ich habe keinen Bruder, means “I have no brother”, rather than “I don’t have a brother”
• • Elaboration recognising and understanding the different forms of ‘you’, du, Sie and plural informal ihr when addressing one person or more , for example, Setzt dich, Setzen Sie, Setzt euch, Was meint ihr? Hört gut zu!
• • Elaboration making connections between possessive adjectives and context, for example, mein/e, dein/e, sein/e, ihr/e; Mein/Dein Bruder ist 12. Seine/Ihre Lieblingsfarbe ist blau.
• • Elaboration making comparisons using simple structures and limited forms of modal verbs mögen and können, for example, Er mag Kricket , Ich kann gut schwimmen, Ich mag Erdbeeren lieber als Kiwis, Ich kann laufen besser als Radfahren.
• • Elaboration locating and describing events in time, using the 12-hour clock and including to the half hour, such as Die Schule beginnt um halb neun, using prepositions such as nach and vor, and formulaic expressions such as später, am Wochenende, in den Ferien
• • Elaboration referring to quantities of people, objects and prices using cardinal numbers up to 100, including Meter, Kilometer; Quadratmeter, Quadratkilometer for length/height/distance and area, decimals, and common fractions, for example, 85,5 Prozent haben eine Katze. Die Tagestemperatur liegt bei minus 8 Grad. Ich habe eine Halbschwester.

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• • Elaboration referring to a date, including the year, for an event such as a birth date, for example, Meine Oma ist am elften April 1956 geboren.
• • Elaboration describing current actions using a range of regular and irregular verbs such as kaufen, bringen, tragen, lesen, sehen, fahren, essen and describing experiences in the simple past of sein, for example, Ich war krank. Der Film war interessant. Es war windig.
• • Elaboration noticing that articles and pronouns change after certain verbs, Ich danke dir, and after particular prepositions associated with location, for example, Wir gehen in die Stadt. Wir sind in der Stadt.
• • Elaboration understanding the meaning of the conjunctions dass and weil and noticing what happens to the verb when they are used
• • Elaboration understanding questions using warum and responding with a simple sentence, for example, Warum bist du müde? Ich bin krank.
• • Elaboration describing location using simple formulaic prepositional phrases such as im Wasser, in der Luft, auf dem Land, or neben dem Tisch