German
Key Stage 2
Resources to help you teach the following 2014 curriculum areas for German:
- Listening
- Speaking
- Reading
- Writing
KS2 German - Listening
Pupils should be taught to:
Listening- listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding
In this activity, the teacher calls out the numbers shown and students respond as directed, raising their right, left or both arms.
Clothes match-up activity
An activity in which the teacher reads the statements aloud and pupils identify the correct picture for each without seeing the text.
Anansi und Schildkröte – Anasai and Turtle (German)
Worksheets to enable students to respond to the short video story in the second link.
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A useful song with both voiced and instrumental versions.
- explore the patterns and sounds of language through songs and rhymes and link thespelling, sound and meaning of words
A set of words with pictures that represent the key letter-sound patterns that differ in German, when compared to English. This is an essential resource for helping students to link the spelling, sound and meaning of new words.
Days of the week song
This song can be used in various ways, but in particular to explore sound-writing links, such as “au”.
Phonics pronunciation practice
Words to put into practice the sound-writing patterns learnt through the above Jolly Phonics resource.
A rhyming poem to practise pronunciation
This poem encourages students to practise the correct phonic pronunciation.
KS2 German - Speaking
Speaking- engage in conversations; ask and answer questions; express opinions and respond tothose of others; seek clarification and help
This game helps pupils to practise questions and answers relating to family, pets and descriptions.
Role play - greetings
A conversation to read and another to be given outin text strips for pupils to rearrange.
Guten Tag!
A PowerPoint presentation to introduce a conversation and an additional worksheet to consolidate learning.
Find your twin game
Set of picture cards. Pupils circulate to find their “twin” by asking and answering “What’s your name?”
- speak in sentences, using familiar vocabulary, phrases and basic language structures
A PowerPoint presentation that provides language in sentences for describing daily routine actions.
Das Pausenbrot
This presentation will help pupils learn how to say what they eat and drink at break timein sentences.
My favourite pet
A presentation for learning the simple sentence structure “Mein Haustier ist + indefinite article”.
Wie ist das Wetter heute
This PowerPoint presentation contains 12 weather phrases and pictures to elicit weather descriptions from students.
- develop accurate pronunciation and intonation so that others understand when they arereading aloud or using familiar words and phrases
A PowerPoint presentation version of this story with accompanying task ideas. The text is simplified so it makes a good read-aloud task.
German opposites song
A rhyming song that can be used, amongst other things, for read-aloud practice.
Three little pigs
A German version of the story with lovely visuals to help pupils join in by reading along.
Hallo aus Berlin: Episode one
A set of excellent worksheet to accompany this video clip, including a song at the end that provides a really good opportunity for a read-aloudactivity.
- present ideas and information orally to a range of audiences
A useful IWB map of Germany to facilitate pupils giving their own oral weather forecasts.
Der Schneemann
A Christmas rhyming poem that would make an excellent presentation piece for pupils to learn by heart and perform.
Personal identity cards
These can be used either as Q&A cards or for pupils to present themselves to others. The information can be adapted to include more details, depending on the ability and knowledge of the pupils.
Speed-dating activity
Pupils ask and answer questions to identify the pupil with whom they have the most in common.
KS2 German - Reading
Reading- read carefully and show understanding of words, phrases and simple writing
Students read sentences and colour in the school bag items in the appropriate colours.
Pausenbrot dominoes
Student match pictures to food words to complete the four-by-four dominoes formation.
Basic personal information in German
Reading comprehension activities including questions and gap-fill tasks that cover basic personal information.
Die Familie
A set of sentences in German about family for pupils to translate into English and use as a model for writing their own sentences.
- appreciate stories, songs, poems and rhymes in the language
These poems about months, days, seasons and weather can be exploited for their rhymes and their vocabulary.
Dornröschen with sound
Use this presentation version of the Sleeping Beauty story with the sound files to be used in conjunction with the associated planning resource.
Osterhase poem
A short rhyming poem about the Easter Bunny with some familiar vocabulary. This poem would make a very good read-aloud activity.
Genki German fun songs
A series of songs for younger German learners to help them learn vocabulary.
- broaden their vocabulary and develop their ability to understand new words that areintroduced into familiar written material, including through using a dictionary
A PowerPoint presentation lesson with a series of activities to help pupils learn the vocabulary of months, numbers and birthdays.
Nouns and dictionary work
This presentation reminds pupils of what nouns are and some key features of German nouns, together with an accompanying worksheet to practise dictionary use.
In der Stadt reading comprehension
A worksheet with very well-structured activities to help learners access the text, which includes some unfamiliar language.
Using the dictionary
A useful lesson to develop dictionary skills for upper-KS2 learners.
KS2 German - Writing
Writing- write phrases from memory, and adapt these to create new sentences, to expressideas clearly
Pupils turn under the words at the bottom and try to complete the weather phrases from memory. Then they can check their work using the words.
Leseübungen Familie
These reading activities build towards writing tasks about family.
Personal information
A reading comprehension task that serves as an excellent preparation task for students’ own written work.
Introducing Christmas words
A lesson that includes the opportunity to write both individual Christmas words and a Christmas card in German.
- describe people, places, things and actions orally and in writing
Teachers could use the pages from this booklet to support students’ writing at KS2.
Colours, flags and countries
A PowerPoint presentation for introducing colours and enabling learners to describe the flags of different countries.
Asking for and giving directions
This PowerPoint presentation lesson includesa sentence-writing task about giving directions.
Meine Stadt von Homer Simpson
A text for upper-KS2 that includes both reading comprehension and a writing task.
- Understand basic grammar appropriate to the language being studied, including (where relevant): feminine, masculine and neuter forms and the conjugation of high-frequency verbs; key features and patterns of the language; how to apply these, for instance, to build sentences; and how these differ from or are similar to English.
A set of three lessons that introduce places in the town, using the definite article and then the indefinite article after “Es gibt”.
Der Körper und das Gesicht
A very useful presentation showing parts of the body and face with definite articles.
German animals
An excellent set of resources to introduce a range of animals in German, using definite articles.
Schultasche – articles
This resource introduces school bag items with both definite and indefinite articles, using colour-coding to reinforce gender.
Curriculum resources 2014 – German