Our comprehensive Key Stage 3 MFL courses guarantee our students solid preparation to face the challenge of the GCSE course.
Mrs L Bould - Head of Department - lvb@bws.wilts.sch.uk
Mrs L Drummond – Teacher of German – lcd@bws.wilts.sch.uk
Ms O Telford – Teacher of German – ot@bws.wilts.sch.uk
Every student will study all three languages in Year 7. At the end of Year 7, they will choose their First Language to study up to GCSE. Students will also continue with an allocated Second Language in Year 8 and Year 9, and they may also choose to continue studying this one to GCSE. Students can then continue with French, German or Spanish at A-Level.
Learning German at Bishop’s is all about:
The text book issued to students is called "Stimmt 1"
There are 2 lessons per week
The full list of topics covered is listed below:-
| Topic | Grammar |
| Greetings | Present tense |
| Numbers & alphabet | Using meine(e) & dein(e) |
| Saying where you live | Pronouns |
| Describing your character | Using kann + infinitive |
| Family & pets | Adjectives and nouns |
| Sports & leisure activities | Using gern, word order |
| School subjects | Using the present tense to talk about the future |
| Days & times | Using weil |
| School facilities & teachers | Using sein & ihr |
| Places in a town | Prepositions |
The text book issued to students is called "Stimmt 2"
There are 5 lessons per week.
The full list of topics covered is listed below:
| Topic | Grammar |
| Holidays | Imperfect tense, Future tense |
| Travel | Perfect tense |
| Weather | Present and past tenses |
| TV & Film | Modal verbs |
| Reading | Prepositions |
| Food & Drink | Irregular verbs |
| Recipes | Imperative |
| Healthy Lifestyles | |
| Rules | Modal verbs |
| Daily Routine | Reflexive verbs and separable verbs |
| Holidays & Festivals | Imperative & adjective endings |
| Clothes & Uniforms | Using wenn & future tense |
GCSE German is studied using the New Edexcel German GCSE specification. This new specification culminates in four papers taken at the end of Year 11: Speaking, Writing, Reading and Listening. The four skills have got equal weight in the final grade.
The text book issued to students is called "Stimmt Edexcel GCSE German" and boys may also wish to purchase "Edexcel GCSE Grammar and Translation Workbook" for help with class and homework tasks.
Year 9 First Language German is taught for 3 lessons per week.
The full list of topics covered is listed below:-
| Term | Topic | Grammar |
| 1-2 | School | Present tense Imperfect tense Perfect tense Future tense Modal verbs Subordinate clauses |
| 3-4 | Free Time | Using nouns and articles Using adverbs of frequency and place Plural nouns Conditional Tenses |
| 5-6 | Relationships | Adjective endings Possessive adjectives The dative case Prepositions Modal verbs in the imperfect tense |
Year 9 Second Language (Quick-Start) German is taught for 3 lessons per week.
The text books used for this course are called "Stimmt 1" and “Stimmt 2”. Students will also use sections of the Stimmt GCSE textbook.
The full list of topics covered is listed below:-
| Term | Topic | Grammar |
| 1 | Basics & Hobbies | Present tense Pronouns Adjectives and nouns Using adverbs of frequency and place Possessive adjectives Prepositions |
| 2 | Food & Drink | Using gern Word order Perfect tense Future tense |
| 3 | School | Weil Word order Sein and ihr prepositions |
| 4 | School | Subordinate clauses Conditional tense Separable verbs |
| 5 | Holidays | Imperfect tense Revision of tenses Asking and answering questions |
| 6 | Media | Modal verbs Introduction to cases |
Year 10 German is taught for 4 lessons per week.
The full list of topics covered is listed below:-
| Term | Topic | Grammar |
| 1-2 | House & home Food & drink Technology |
Irregular verbs Separable verbs Prepositions Reflexive verbs Subordinate clauses |
| 3-4 | Travel & accommodation Shopping & ordering food |
Using clauses with two verbs Compatives & superlatives Imperatives Wenn clauses with the subjunctive Adjective endings Seit + present tense |
| 5-6 | Local area & holiday destinations | Prepositions Pluperfect tense Infinitive constructions with zu Es gibt |
Year 11 German is taught for 4 lessons per week.
The full list of topics covered is listed below:-
| Term | Topic | Grammar |
| 1 | The world of work | Masculine and feminine nouns Conjunctions Intensifiers Word order with weil Tenses Um...zu Using etwas + adjectives |
| 2 | Environment & world issues | Forming questions Prepositions Numbers and dates Adjectival nouns Comparatives and superlatives The passive voice |
| 3 | Revision and Exam Practice | Grammar revision |
| 4 | Revision and Exam Practice | Grammar revision |
| 5 | Study leave and Exam | |
| 6 | Study leave and Exam |