Primary 6th Class Languages
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German for 6th Class

The second year of primary German, taking 6th Class pupils from pre-A1 towards A1.

  • Student Activity Book
  • Mapped to the NCCA curriculum

The whole first lesson, as your class sees it. No sign-in needed.

On the interactive whiteboard
Spin for a bird
Naming what we see outdoors
Matching the birds
Number bingo

What your school gets

Everything a teacher needs to teach German for 6th Class this year.

In class

  • 30 lessons, ready to teach Each one planned step by step, taught from the interactive whiteboard. 9 interactive activities across the course.
  • Module assessments 5 module assessments.
  • Try the first lesson: Greet Like a Local

On paper

The whole books come with the course, in each class's Resources.

For planning

Included with the course. Teachers find them in their class's Resources.

The curriculum it covers

Every lesson is mapped to the specification. This course teaches 8 of the 9 outcomes for this class.

Communicative Competence In The L3 8 of 9 outcomes
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Curriculum Area
Outcomes
Communicative Competence In The L3
Developing communicative relationships through language
S4.CR.1 S4.CR.2 S4.CR.3
Understanding the content and structure of language
S4.CS.1 S4.CS.2
Exploring and using language
S4.EU.1 S4.EU.2 S4.EU.3 S4.EU.4

Tap any outcome to read it. The coloured ones are taught in this course. The curriculum does not include official reference codes for individual learning outcomes, so we have assigned a code scheme to make it easier to identify and track coverage.

The course, module by module

30 lessons and 5 assessments in 5 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.

1 Conversational Openers 6 lessons and an assessment · about 6 hours

Pupils reopen German with greetings, goodbyes and introductions, then describe colours and pets and count past ten, moving from recognition to choosing the right form and building short sentences.

  1. Hello and Goodbye
  2. 1 Greet Like a Local Sample lesson
  3. 2 Say Goodbye Properly
  4. Names, Colours and Pets
  5. 3 Introduce Yourself
  6. 4 Describe Colours
  7. 5 Our Favourite Pets (Die Haustiere)
  8. Numbers That Build
  9. 6 Elf to Zwanzig: Numbers That Stick Together
  10. Module 1 assessment: Conversational Openers Assessment
2 Weather and Time 6 lessons and an assessment · about 6 hours

Pupils give short forecasts, tell the time on the 24-hour clock, name days and months, build a spoken profile about themselves, and describe a landscape with joined details.

  1. Forecasts and the Clock
  2. 7 Give a Short Weather Forecast
  3. 8 Tell the Time (Die Uhrzeit)
  4. Days, Months and Me
  5. 9 Name the Days (Die Wochentage)
  6. 10 Months of the Year
  7. 11 Talk About Yourself (Über Mich)
  8. Landscapes Around Us
  9. 12 Explore Nature (Die Natur)
  10. Module 2 assessment: Weather and Time Assessment
3 Journeys and Homes 6 lessons and an assessment · about 6 hours

Pupils talk about how they travel, describe rooms and furniture with position words, and describe wild animals, insects and birds with joined details from earlier themes.

  1. Getting There and Settling in
  2. 13 Travel by Transport
  3. 14 Rooms of the House (Die Zimmer)
  4. 15 Furnish Your Home
  5. Creatures Great and Small
  6. 16 Spot Wild Animals
  7. 17 Discover Insects (Die Insekten)
  8. 18 Observe Birds Through the Year
  9. Module 3 assessment: Journeys and Homes Assessment
4 Hobbies and Fun 6 lessons and an assessment · about 6 hours

Pupils talk about sports, toys, instruments and feelings, practise classroom requests, and pull animal vocabulary together with gender sorting.

  1. Play and Make Music
  2. 19 Play Your Sports
  3. 20 Favourite Toys
  4. 21 Play Instruments
  5. Feelings, Class and Creatures
  6. 22 Express Emotions with Weil
  7. 23 Borrowing Classroom Items
  8. 24 Animals All Together (Die Tiere)
  9. Module 4 assessment: Hobbies and Fun Assessment
5 Personal Profiles 6 lessons and an assessment · about 6 hours

Pupils describe family, body and clothes, then handle food, fruit and drinks in complete exchanges that close the two-year German course.

  1. People and How They Look
  2. 25 Meet the Family
  3. 26 Point to Body Parts
  4. 27 Dress in Style
  5. Food, Fruit and Drinks
  6. 28 Food I Like (and Food I Don't)
  7. 29 Zwei Äpfel, Bitte!
  8. 30 Sip on Drinks (Die Getränke)
  9. Module 5 assessment: Personal Profiles Assessment

What pupils learn

The second year of primary German, taking 6th Class pupils from pre-A1 towards A1. Familiar themes return with greater depth: pupils produce short sentences, work out gender, and compare everyday life in German-speaking places with life at home.

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