A knowledge organiser (KO) for German GCSE. It is for theme 5.2 - Where You Live. It complements the OUP textbook.
It includes key grammar (“Using inversion to form questions”, “Using the verb können correctly”, and “Using interrogatives to form questions”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.
A knowledge organiser (KO) for one of the first half terms of German studies. It’s a packed single side of A4, which includes:
Grammar
Using haben and sein correctly
Using ordinal numbers
Key Phrases
The alphabet pronunciation
Introducing yourself
Numbers (up to 31)
Saying how you are
Birthdays and months of the year
Saying where you live
School equipment
It also includes some brief aims and a couple of “Fancy phrases”.
Also available to purchase are my other KS3 Knowledge Organisers:
Introduction to German
My Family
School
Free Time
My Home
My Town
Food and Shopping
Body and Fitness
Daily Routine
Film, TV, Music and Social Media
These can be purchased individually or as a bundles.
You can also find my complete sets of 21 KS4 Knowledge Organisers for AQA GCSE German.
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Included in this bundle are five KS3 Y7 and six Y8 knowledge organisers. They cover: Introduction to German, My Family, School, Free Time, My Home, Body, Illness and Fitness, Daily Routine, Food and Shopping, Holiday, Music, TV, Film and Internet, and My Town.
All KOs are one (packed) side of A4. They include brief aims, some grammar points, some key phrases/vocabulary, and some “fancy phrases”.
Y7
KO 1 - Introduction to German
Grammar
Using haben and sein correctly
Using ordinal numbers
Key Phrases
Key Phrases
The alphabet pronunciation
Introducing yourself
Numbers (up to 31)
Saying how you are
Birthdays and months of the year
Saying where you live
School equipment
KO 2 - My Family
Grammar
Using the correct word for “a”
Creating plural words
Saying “because”
Key Phrases
Family members and siblings
Appearance
Characteristics (including intensifiers)
Pets
KO 3 - School
Grammar
Giving your opinion
Saying “because”
Adjectival endings
Key Phrases
School subjects
Snacks
Saying the time
Intensifiers and adjectives for opinions
Uniform
KO 4 - Free Time
Grammar
Using gern correctly
Verbs in the third person
Saying your, my, his, and her
Key Phrases
Adverbs of frequency
Sports and hobbies
Favourite things
Invitation requests and responses
KO 5 - My Home
Grammar
Saying what there is not (using “kein”)
Describing positions using the dative case
Using the correct word for “the” and “a” (accusative and nominative case)
Key Phrases
Types of houses
Areas you live in
Prepositions
Rooms
Furniture
They can also be purchased individually from my shop.
Y8
KO 1 - Holidays
Grammar
Conjugating “haben” and “sein”
Creating the past (perfect) tense
Using the conditional tense
Key Phrases
Holiday vocabulary
Holiday tense phrases
KO 2 - My Town
Grammar
Using the accusative case after “es gibt”
Comparatives
Using “ich möchte”
Key Phrases
Town vocabulary
Town tense phrases
KO 3 - Food and Shopping
Grammar
Using opinions
Prepositions
Using “möchte” to say what you’d like
Key Phrases
Town and shopping vocabulary
Fruit and vegetables vocabulary
Town and shopping phrases
Town and shopping tense phrases
KO 4 - Body, Illness and Fitness
Grammar
Using “seit”
Using imperatives to give advice
Using “können” as a modal verb
Key Phrases
Body parts
Face parts
Illnesses
Saying how to stay fit (“Man kann…”)
KO 5 - Daily Routine
Grammar
Using separable verbs
Verb as the second idea
Daily routine in the 3rd person
Key Phrases
Daily routine vocabulary and phrases
Word order (time, manner, place)
Routine tense phrases
KO 6 - Music, TV, Film and Internet
Grammar
Using “gern” to state opinions
Justifying your opinions
Using “seit” to say how long you’ve been doing something
Key Phrases
Music genres and example phrases
Film genres
Social media vocabulary
Musical instruments vocabulary
Music/TV/film/social media tense phrases
They can also be purchased individually from my shop.
You can also find my complete set of 21 KS4 Knowledge Organisers for AQA GCSE German.
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A PowerPoint presentation regarding the German language, its similarity to English, some cognates and loan words, techniques for working out new words and a classroom class talk speaking activity for students to have in their books and use through the year. You’ll need to adapt the worksheet and PowerPoint so that it reflects your school’s reward name (I talk about gaining a “Silver” and a “Gold”).
I have loads of Y7 German lessons (including Knowledge Organisers), plus KS4 German Knowledge Organisers for the entire GCSE course available from my shop:
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A knowledge organiser (KO) for German GCSE. It is for theme 8.1 - Holidays and travel. It complements the OUP textbook.
It includes key grammar (“Using weather expressions”, “Using the imperfect tense of irregular verbs”, and “Using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.
A knowledge (KO) organiser for German GCSE. It is for theme 12.1 - Choice of career. It complements the OUP textbook.
It includes key grammar (“Using ich möchte,* ich werde*, and* ich will*”, “Using subordinating conjunctions”, and “Understanding and using the genitive case”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.
A knowledge organiser (KO) for German GCSE. It is for theme 2.1 - Social Media. It complements the OUP textbook.
It includes key grammar (“Using the present tense to refer to the future”, “Using direct and indirect pronouns”, and “Using wann, wenn and als correctly”), the aims of the theme, some “fancy phrases” for the topic, 20 key items of vocabulary (also in sentences for context), and four key verbs in five different tenses.
A 12-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity thinking about the German language and then goes through the importance of the Knowledge Organiser (KO included!) and then goes through basic “Guten Tag” vocabulary. There is a listening activity of people saying “Hello” to each other" and a vocab matching activity.
My Knowledge Organiser for beginners’ German is also included (Word and PDF available).
This is lesson 3 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available!
Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop.
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A 14-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then tests the numbers up to 12. It then introduces the numbers up to 31 and practises them with a simple match-up activity, a listening activity, and some number puzzles. Please note that there is a reference to the Linguascope worksheet on numbers up to 31, which I can’t share as it’s protected by Copyright.
This is lesson 6 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available!
Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop.
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A 16-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then tests the greetings vocabulary covered so far. It then introduces the numbers up to 12 and the “age” vocab. There is a listening exercise included. It ends with a brief introduction to “sein” and a table to fill in (included). Please note: There is a reference to the Linguascope worksheet to practise the numbers up to 12, which I am unable to share as it’s protected by Copyright.
Also included is a “sein” grid to fill in and a “sein” worksheet.
This is lesson 5 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available!
Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop.
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A 30-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then introduces the idea of nouns and how they have different genders in German. It then introduces 12 items of equipment in the school bag. It then teaches whether to use “der”, “die”, or “das” or “einen”, “eine”, or “ein”. There are a couple of listening exercises, some short writing exercises, a reading comprehension, and some information about forming negatives with “kein/e/n”.
This is lesson 12 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available!
Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop.
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A 16-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and recaps the German-speaking countries already covered. Students are then tasked with labelling the three main German-speaking countries on their map (included), as well as the capitals and other major cities. There are a couple of reading activities included, and a small writing frame.
Also included is the blank map for students to label.
This is lesson 11 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available!
Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop.
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A 4-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then goes the instructions for carrying out the assessment as a writing activity.
Also included are the markschemes (slightly different depending on if you do it as a speaking or a writing activity) which will enable you to grade students up to grade 9.
There is also a slide to help you mark it so that you can write, e.g. “T4, T9” to feedback on students’ improvement targets.
Students can then work on these in the next lesson by using the PowerPoint presentation for lesson 15, which explains to students what they need to do to improve the work and re-write it.
This is lesson 14 and 15 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available!
Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop.
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A 16-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity and then goes through the basic “How are you?” vocabulary with a vocab match-up activity. At the end, there is an introduction to the “Look, Cover, Write, Check” method of vocab learning (worksheet included) and a conversation gapfill as a plenary.
This is lesson 4 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available!
Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop.
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A 10-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity thinking about German content already covered and then introduces some opinion adjectives and intensifiers. It talks through how to structure a simple conversation giving your opinion and encourages students to form opinions on brand names and other words covered so far. It ends with some translations
This is lesson 18 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available!
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An 11-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity covering German topics covered so far. It then asks students to translate a German passage covering many topics covered in lesson 1 to 24. There is a walk-through for peer marking, plus some grade boundaries to give a grade. There are also three targets if the teacher is marking with some specific work for those targets.
This is lesson 25 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available!
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Here are the PowerPoints are resources for the second batch of 10 lessons of learning German. They’re straight-forward lessons: all start with a Do Now activity and have some listening, reading, and writing activities, and even an assessment (plus PRIDE/DIRT) at the end.
Topics covered are: Siblings, Family, Opinions, Characteristics, Colours, Hair and eyes, Height and Size, Pets, and a translation assessment.
Also available in my shop: KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets and lots more.
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Here are the PowerPoints are resources for the third batch of lessons of learning German. They’re straight-forward lessons: all start with a Do Now activity and have some listening, reading, and writing activities, and even an assessment (plus PRIDE/DIRT) at the end.
Topics covered are: School Subjects and Opinions (including describing timetable), Break Time Snacks, Uniform, Describing a School and a writing assessment.
Also available in my shop: KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets and lots more.
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A 21-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity covering German topics covered so far. It then recaps two ways to state opinions (“Ich liebe/mag/hasse…” and “Ich finde es…”) before introducing a third way: “am liebsten”/“lieber”/"(gar) (nicht) (sehr) gern". There is then a listening activity based on “Ich finde…” sentences and a video about football. After that is a “spot the mistakes” activity and a conversation to practise in pairs. There is then a translation into English and into German and then information on why giving opinions and reasons is important (in the context of the GCSE mark scheme). There is then an introduction to “weil”, “da”, and “denn” and some practice with a dice game. It ends with a recap of key facts and a short writing exercise to put it together.
This is lesson 33 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available!
Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop.
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A 24-slide PowerPoint presentation which starts with a Do Now activity covering German topics covered so far. It starts by introducing 12 new items of “favourite” vocab (e.g. “favourite food”, "“favourite film”, “favourite subject” etc.) with a listening exercise, along with a recap of what a compound noun is. There are some comprehension activities to see the “favourite” vocab in action, and then information about saying “my”, “your”, “his” and “her”. It is followed by a writing activity for students to practise the new grammar. It ends with a tangled translation, in which students need to separate the German and the English and write both out fully. At the end is a recap of key facts.
This is lesson 36 of many available for Year 7 (Y7) or first year German. Bundles available!
Everything (plus KS3 and KS4 German Knowledge Organisers and GCSE exam skill help sheets) is available from my shop.
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