9 Year 9 German: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required of students to communicate in the German language developed in Year 8 and focuses on extending their oral and written communication skills and their understandings of German language and culture. Students communicate in German, initiating and participating in sustained interactions to share, compare and justify personal opinions about aspects of childhood, teenage life and relationships. They engage in shared activities such as planning and managing activities, events or experiences, exchanging resources and information. Students analyse ideas and information from a range of texts, identifying context, purpose and intended audience. They convey information and ideas and offer their own views on texts, using appropriate formats and styles of presentation. Students discuss how imaginative texts reflect German cultural values or experiences. They create and present imaginative texts designed to engage different audiences that involve moods and effects. Students understand the systems of the German language, recognising the ways in which written language is different from spoken language such as being more crafted, elaborated and complex. They increase control of context-related vocabulary and extend knowledge of grammatical elements such as recognising when to use appropriate tense (present, present perfect, simple past, future) with a range of regular and irregular verbs, when encountered in familiar expressions and scaffolded language contexts. Students further develop a metalanguage to discuss and explain grammatical forms and functions. Students increasingly monitor language choices when using German, considering their own and others’ responses and reactions in intercultural communication, questioning assumptions and values and taking responsibility for modifying language and behaviours in relation to different cultural perspectives. In Year 9 learning is characterised by consolidation and progression. Students are provided with new challenges and engage in some independent learning experiences, always supported by modelling, scaffolding and monitoring.
9 Year 9 German: Second Language builds on the skills, knowledge and understanding required of students to communicate in the German language developed in Year 8 and focuses on extending their oral and written communication skills and their understandings of German language and culture. Students communicate in German, initiating and participating in sustained interactions to share, compare and justify personal opinions about aspects of childhood, teenage life and relationships. They engage in shared activities such as planning and managing activities, events or experiences, exchanging resources and information. Students analyse ideas and information from a range of texts, identifying context, purpose and intended audience. They convey information and ideas and offer their own views on texts, using appropriate formats and styles of presentation. Students discuss how imaginative texts reflect German cultural values or experiences. They create and present imaginative texts designed to engage different audiences that involve moods and effects. Students understand the systems of the German language, recognising the ways in which written language is different from spoken language such as being more crafted, elaborated and complex. They increase control of context-related vocabulary and extend knowledge of grammatical elements such as recognising when to use appropriate tense (present, present perfect, simple past, future) with a range of regular and irregular verbs, when encountered in familiar expressions and scaffolded language contexts. Students further develop a metalanguage to discuss and explain grammatical forms and functions. Students increasingly monitor language choices when using German, considering their own and others’ responses and reactions in intercultural communication, questioning assumptions and values and taking responsibility for modifying language and behaviours in relation to different cultural perspectives. In Year 9 learning is characterised by consolidation and progression. Students are provided with new challenges and engage in some independent learning experiences, always supported by modelling, scaffolding and monitoring.