German 1b Grade 6
Course Description
Syllabus Overview
This is a one-year course, which follows the German 1A course and enables the students to transfer to German 2A in 7 th Grade. This course reviews and reinforces
skills learned in German 1. The focus of the first level is on developing longer conversational exchanges and reading for meaning and pleasure.
Key:
S- Spoken
W- Written
L- Listening
R- Reading
Time
Unit Description
Q1
Review
-German sounds and special phonetics
-My family
Q1
Chapter 9
Friends
Describing friends and oneself using character trait and
descriptive adjectives and talking and asking about what
one does in their free time at different times of the year,
when incorporating time and days of the week and how
often
Chapter 10
Making arrangements with friends saying where you
would like to go using the definite article in the
accusative and when you will meet them. Saying why
you can’ go somewhere using the modal verbs “können”
and “dürfen”
Class Reader : Pedro das kleine Dromedar
Chapter 11
Inviting someone to go to a flea market on the phone
and saying what you would like to buy/sell using the
definite/indefinite articles in the nominative and
accusative in the singular and plural
Q1
Q2
Key Learning Objectives
Students will:
-be able to present their imaginary families in
greater detail
Key Assessments
Key Resources
Project: My imaginary family (S,W)
-Hand outs
-be able to say what, when and how often you like
to do an activity in your free time
be able to ask a friend about their free time
/hobbies
Quiz- (L, R, W)
-Hueber Planet 1 Lektion 9 interactive book, wkbk,
glossary
-Komm mit 1 testing program
-be able to ask a friend if they would like to go
somewhere with you and if they can’t ask why
be able to answer in the positive or negative to a
friends invitation
– be able to access a piece of literature for overall
understanding
-Quiz- (L, R, W)
-Unit test 9/10 (S, L/R/W)
-Hueber Planet 1 Lektion 10 interactive book, wkbk,
glossary
-Komm mit 1 testing program
Class Reader – Pedro das kleine Dromedar
-be able to say what you would like to sell/buy and
why
-be able to agree and disagree with someone
-Quiz- (L, R, W)
-Hueber Planet 1 Lektion 11 interactive book, wkbk,
glossary
-Komm mit 1 testing program
Q2
Chapter 12
At the flea market
Using the du and Sie form correctly to enquire for and
give prices for items to be bought and sold in the
singular and plural
-be able to ask for and give a price for items at a
flea market
-Quiz- (L, R, W)
-Unit test 11/12 (S, L/R/W)
-Hueber Planet 1 Lektion 12 interactive book, wkbk,
glossary
-Komm mit 1 testing program
Q3
Chapter 13
Describing ones daily routine using time, adverbs and
activity verbs and saying when you have to do an
activity using the verb “müssen” + the infintive
Chapter 14
Chores around the house
Using the present and the past tense with haben to be
able to talk and enquire about what chores need to be
done for whom and when
Chapter 15
Pets
Describe pets using colours, age as well as the
diminutive form and what they can do using the verb
“können” + infinitive
Understand Expressionism and its impact on German
culture by looking at Max Ernst work
Class Reader: Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
Chapter 16
Our Zoo at home
By using the past tense with haben and sein and the
conversational past of sein be able to talk about why the
family has ended up with too many pets at home. Say
using the possessive article of unser and euer in the
nominative and accusative which animal belongs to
whom.
-be able to talk about their daily routine
-be able to talk about breakfast routines
-be able to say what they have to do
-Quiz- (L, R, W)
- Multimedia project – my daily
routine (S)
-Hueber Planet 1 Lektion 13 interactive book, wkbk,
glossary
-Komm mit 1 testing programm
-be able to talk about chores they have to do in the
present and past tense
-be able justify a decline for a friends invitation
-Quiz- (L, R, W)
-Unit test 13/14 (S, L/R/W)
-Hueber Planet 1 Lektion 14 interactive book, wkbk,
glossary
-Komm mit 1 testing program
-be able to describe and enquire about pets
-be able to read and understand a traditional
German folktale
-Quiz- (L, R, W)
- Multimedia summary of the class
reader (S,W)
-Hueber Planet 1 Lektion 15 interactive book, wkbk,
glossary
-Komm mit 1 testing program
- Hueber – die Bremer Stadtmusikanten
-be able to say/explain why something has
occurred
-be able to say which animal belongs to whom
-Quiz- (L, R, W)
-Unit test 15/16 (S, L/R/W)
Multimedia project – short video/
screen cast for verbs in the past
using sein and haben (S)
-Hueber Planet 1 Lektion 16 interactive book, wkbk,
glossary
-Komm mit 1 testing program
Q3
Q4
Q4