Middle School German 2016-2017
Trimester 2 Subject Overview
Class 7
Topics
Deutschbuch 6,
Units 8 + 5:
Poems
Tall Tales
Content
Students will learn how to read, understand and present poems. They will learn how to
determine the rhythm of a poem and how to understand imagery and personification.
Students will read different tall tales and how to understand them and the author’s
intention. They will learn how to recognise the morale in the story and the specific use
of language and idioms in a tall tale.
Reading:
 Train fluent reading and the difference in reading out loud a story or a poem
 Reading comprehension:
* Recognise characteristics of poems and tall tales
* Read and understand different poems and tall tales
* Analyse the language in poems and in tall tales
Writing:
 Focus on correct application of spelling rules and grammar structures studied
in this unit
 Creative writing (150 words)
Oral:
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Grammar:
Verbs & Tenses
Focus on correct use of grammar structures studied in this unit
Present a poem
Summarise a tall tale
Conjugation of verbs in present and past tense
Assessment:
 Grammar and spelling quizzes
 Reading comprehension test about a poem
 Reading comprehension test about a tall tale
 Creative writing: Compose a poem
 Creative writing: Write a tall tale
 Oral expression: presentation of a poem
Middle School German 2016-2017
Trimester 2 Subject Overview
Class 8
Topics
Literature
“Das
Austauschkind”
(Christine
Nöstlinger)
Doppel-Klick 7
Das Sprach- und
Lesebuch
Narrative poems
Content
Students will learn how to read, understand and interpret a novel for adolescents and
work with specific parts of the text in a creative way of rephrasing.
Students will learn about the characteristics of narrative poems and how to read,
understand and present them.
Reading:
 Reading comprehension:
* Identify relevant information from the novel
* Create and answer questions to the content of the novel
* Give a summary of a specific chapter or part of the novel
* Analyse the language of the novel
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Train fluent reading and the difference in reading out loud a story or a
narrative poem
Writing:
 Focus on correct application of spelling rules and grammar structures studied
in this unit
 Summaries of chapters
Oral:
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Grammar:
Verbs & Tenses
Focus on correct use of grammar structures studied in this unit
Summarise a specific action/situation of the novel
Present a narrative poem
Conjugation of verbs in present and past tense
Assessment:
 Grammar and spelling quizzes
 Reading comprehension test about the novel
 Reading comprehension test about a narrative poem
 Creative writing: Continue a narrative poem in your own words
 Oral expression: Presentation of a specific action/situation of the novel
 Oral expression: Presentation of a narrative poem
Middle School German 2016-2017
Trimester 2 Subject Overview
Class 9
Topics
Deutschbuch 8
Unit 7 + 2 + 4
Poems and songs
related to “city”
Express and
discuss opinions
Language of new
media
Grammar:
Sentences and parts
of sentences
Content
Students will learn how to read, understand and analyse poems and lyrics. They will
learn about different types of poems and compose their own poems. They will learn
how to discuss and express their opinion. Students will learn how written and spoken
language is differentiated according to the objective and how to write a letter to a
specific addressee. Students will learn about the use of language in new media.
Reading:
 Listen to, understand and interpret lyrics
Writing:
 Focus on the correct application of grammar structures studied in this unit
 How to write a statement of opinion to a specific topic
 How to write a formal letter
Oral:
 Correct use of grammar structures studied in this unit
 Present poems
 Discussion and express personal opinion
 Analyse and discuss the language of new media
Grammar review:
 Knowledge about adverbial constructions and compound sentence structures
 Correct use of adverbial constructions and compound sentence structures
Assessment:
 Grammar and spelling quizzes
 Reading comprehension test about a poem and a song
 Creative writing: Compose a poem
 Formal writing: Write a formal letter giving your opinion to a specific topic
 Oral expression: Discussion and expression of opinion to the unit topic