German
“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” – Frank Smith
By delivering a high-quality education in Modern Foreign Languages, we equip our students with the opportunity to stand out from the crowd and thrive in an increasingly globalised world.
We provide an ambitious and creative curriculum which equips students with skills for languages for life. The promotion of independent learning and teamwork inspires students with the confidence to pursue their studies and enables them to gain linguistic and transferable skills. Encouraging our students to excel by challenging themselves to reach further, through risk taking, instils a sense of resilience, so essential for future success in all fields.
Our programmes of study place an importance on languages for all through enculturation, fostering an appreciation of diversity and a passion for the world that we share. Effective links with English grammar ensure that our students value their language as a medium to appreciate another. Through this awareness of language structure, students gain the knowledge to apply skills across the curriculum, such as analysis and evaluation of different sources and data, metacognitive strategies and memory techniques.
The journey starts in Key Stage 3, where students learn a first foreign language, and then apply their emerging linguistic skills to an accelerated second foreign language course in year 8. We are proud of our commitment to languages for all at Key Stage 4 and students continue their language journey through to Key Stage 5, leaving with the ability to communicate confidently and fluently.
At the Langton Language Centre, it is our ambition to continue to cultivate confident linguists for the 21st Century, not only with our three main curriculum languages, but also with an array of other world languages and extra-curricular opportunities, a truly unique offer stretching way beyond traditional MFL curriculums.
“If you talk to someone in a language they understand, that goes to their head. If you talk to them in their language, that goes to their heart.” – Nelson Mandela
Minimum Entry Criteria
Essential: 7 in German
Board
Edexcel
Outline of the Course
- Component 1 - Listening, reading and translation: Students will be asked to transfer meaning from a number of audio texts and reading texts through multi choice questions, gap filling and question and answer type responses. The translation includes translating one text from German to English
- Component 2 - Written response to works and translation: This paper draws on the study of two discrete German works: one literary text and one film. Students also translate an unseen passage from English into German
- Component 3 - Speaking: Students will be assessed on their ability to use a range of language accurately, communicate and interact effectively, summarise and analyse findings from written sources relating to their research project, and show knowledge and understanding about the culture and society where the language is spoken
Components include the following topics:
- Social issues and trends in Germany, artistic culture (through music and festivals and traditions as well as media), immigration and the aspects of a multicultural society in Germany, and political culture in modern Germany since the reunification
- Texts and films – Ich fühl mich so fifty fifty (novel) and Goodbye Lenin (film)
Assessment
|
Type of Assessment |
Duration |
Weighting |
|
|
1 |
Examination: Listening, reading and translation from German to English |
2 hours |
40% |
|
2 |
Examination: Writing assessment – based on text and film and translation from English to German |
2 hours 40 minutes |
30% |
|
3 |
Examination: Oral assessment – discussion on chosen topic followed by discussion based on a stimulus card |
21-23 minutes |
30% |
