AC9LG8EU02 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor develop knowledge of, and use structures and features of, the German grammatical and writing systems to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts

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• • Elaboration comparing punctuation rules in English and German, for example, considering aspects for direct speech, understanding quotation marks for direct speech, understanding the meaning and use of full stops and commas in German ordinal or decimal numbers, die 8. Klasse, 9,50 Euro, 15.30 Uhr and using the German quotation marks correctly, „Hallo! Ich bin Peter.“
• • Elaboration applying German capitalisation rules to nouns and noticing that the capitalisation of the formal ‘you’ form Sie distinguishes it from sie ‘she/they’ form
• • Elaboration selecting the correct personal pronoun for ‘it’ er/sie/es/ihn for objects, for example, Woher hast du den Hut? Er ist sehr schön. Ich habe ihn bei … gekauft.
• • Elaboration applying sentence structure rules for verb position, including use of some modal verbs and questions, and noting that the conjugated verb will not move when subject is inverted, for example, Am Nachmittag spiele ich Tennis. Ich kann gut schwimmen. Hast du Geschwister?
• • Elaboration understanding how to create textual cohesion by using elements such as coordinating conjunctions, for example, und, aber, oder to link ideas and simple subordinating conjunctions, for example, weil
• • Elaboration recognising different registers such as the different words for ‘you’, for example, Was machst du, Peter? Was macht ihr, Kinder? Setz dich, Peter! Setzt euch Kinder! Kommen Sie bitte herein, Herr Berger!
• • Elaboration recognising compound words, and collecting and analysing interesting examples, noting that compound nouns take the gender of the last noun in the compound, for example, der Schulsport, die Realschule

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• • Elaboration developing a basic knowledge of the German case system, nominative, accusative and dative, and using definite and indefinite articles, personal pronouns, and possessive adjectives such as ihr, sein, unser
• • Elaboration describing current and recurring actions selecting and conjugating some frequently used regular and irregular verbs, for example, Ich trinke Orangensaft, Sie isst einen Apfel