Please Note: This consensus map is a work in progress. We will continue to engage in conversations, reflection and revisions as we
explore how to more clearly align and articulate our German consensus map.
GERMAN – Level 2
First Quarter
Essential Question (s):
Theme/Unit
Content
1. Summer
vacation/
celebrations
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2. School
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Students can…
(I1, I2, P)
Review past tense
 Ask about summer
vacation
Celebrations specific
to countries
 Describe own
summer vacation
Party preparations
 Wish someone a
Gifts
good time
The verb to receive,
 Ask for and give
give
advice
To verb to open, wrap
 Ask for help
The verb to offer,
 Check if things
accept
have been done
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School places and
 Ask how
events
something turned
out
Computer terms
 Wonder what
Direct and indirect
happened
objects
 Ask for
Object pronouns
information
Negation (nobody,
 Express frustration
nowhere, nothing)
Past tense
Teaching Strategies
I1=Interpersonal I2=Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL German Level 2/82011
Resources
Assessment
Strategies (I1, I2, P)
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GERMAN – Level 2
Second Quarter
Essential Question (s):
Theme/Unit
Content
3.
Food
shopping
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4. Clothes
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Fruits, vegetables,
and cooking
Food shopping (mini
stores)
Pronouns
Metric system
Basic food items
Clothing
Accessories
Sports equipment
Leather goods
Jewelry
Numbers 1,0001,000,000
Adjectives
The verb to put or to
place
Past tense
The verb to see, try
on, fit
Students can…
(I1, I2, P)
 Ask about prices
and pay check
 Identify all types
of foods
 Ask about food
preparation
 Make requests
about food
 Shop for groceries
 Ask where things
are in a store
 Identify types of
clothing and give a
description (sizes,
colors, style)
 Offer and ask for
help in a store
 Ask for and give
opinions about
clothing
 Ask about and give
prices
 Make decision
 Count to
1,000,000 (in
increments)
Teaching Strategies
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Mini-store
windows and
simulate
shopping
experience
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Create mini
store windows
Fashion show
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I1=Interpersonal I2=Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL German Level 2/82011
Resources
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Use realia!
Assessment
Strategies (I1, I2, P)
 Menu creations
for a dinner party
with grocery list
 Store
simulations,
purchasing food
for a menu
GERMAN – Level 2
Third Quarter
Essential Question (s):
Theme/Unit
Content
5. House
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6. Daily routine
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House and furniture
Chores
The verb to be able
to, to hate to/must
(modal verbs)
the verbs to sleep, to
go out, to leave
Daily routine
Some body parts
Reflexive verbs
Past tense, future
tense
Students can…
(I1, I2, P)
 Describe a house
 Tell where things
are in a house
(directions)
 Talk about weekly
chores
 Ask for, give, or
refuse permission
 Tell how often you
do things
 Imperative
 Talk about their
daily routine
 Express
impatience
 Say when they
do/did things
 Make
recommendations
Teaching Strategies
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Dream house
architectural
plan/labeled
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Power point
Simon says
Pictionary
I1=Interpersonal I2=Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL German Level 2/82011
Resources
Assessment
Strategies (I1, I2, P)
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Realia to teach
vocabulary
Students create
own power point
showing daily
routine in
images, no words
– they must
present the
project and orally
describe to the
class what they
did from waking
up to sleeping on
a past day.
GERMAN – Level 2
Fourth Quarter
Essential Question(s):
Theme/Unit
7. Childhood
Content
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Childhood activities
Country life/city life
Narrative past
Teach use of both
past tenses
The superlative
The comparative
Students can…
(I1, I2, P)
 Describe their
childhood, say
what they used to
do
 Tell about an
event in the past
 Describe life in the
country and in the
city
 Compare life in
the country and
the city
Teaching Strategies
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Simon says
I1=Interpersonal I2=Interpretive P=Presentational
Salt Lake City School District/WL German Level 2/82011
Resources
Assessment
Strategies (I1, I2, P)
 Write a
“mémoire” of
their childhood
 Debate: country
life or city life?