German (code 020)

In 2008 a curriculum has been devised for classes VI to VIII. As a result of that the syllabus for class IX now does not start at the very beginning, as was the case till now, but where the class VIII syllabus finishes. The syllabus continues to follow the communicative and interactive approach. The stress is now not so much on grammar but on communication. Translations have been removed. Translation science has made enormous progress and the word to word translations that students at this level generally attempt are not relevant today any longer. Translation is a science within itself and needs rigorous training before it can be attempted. What has been incorporated is the summarisation of a German text in English. The students will get a passage in German that has to be summarised in English. Other written tasks should include- making a poster for the school notice board, writing short messages as also short formal Emails. This is in consonance with the language policy of the CBSE. Reading skills have been given special attention. Students should be familiarised with reading strategies. Awareness has to be created that there are no difficult texts but only difficult questions. This effectively means that the texts chosen should be authentic and teachers have to develop the skill of forming tasks/ exercises that help students extract the most from a seemingly difficult text. Listening skills and speaking skills have also been incorporated. The same approach as to reading applies also to listening skills. Authentic texts using audio texts from all German speaking countries with appropriate exercises should be used. People in German speaking countries have multiple dialects and accents and are proud to use them in their day to day life. It is important to make students aware of this and get their ears used to these regional differences. The Swiss do speak in a somewhat different accent than the residents of the city of Hamburg in northern Germany. Speaking skills are to be promoted in class. This is what motivates students and makes the language come alive for them. Speaking about friends, school, parents, hobbies, social awareness and the environment in class will give them confidence to also express themselves in the real world. Finally the assessment will have to reflect the new approach. There should be more stress on understanding and expression rather than grammar tests. Grammar though important should not become the primary focus of testing pushing communication to the background.

Learning Objectives
The following objectives build upon the objectives already stated for classes VI to VIII. The objectives given below will apply to both classes IX and X which can be treated as one unit

1. Listening and responding

By the end of class X students should be able to Listen and understand the main points and some details from an extended dialogue or a short spoken text and respond Listen to a short audio text and respond by asking for more details Listen to announcements at public places e.g. railway stations and act accordingly Listen to a audio text, extract the relevant details and complete the gaps in a written text

2. Speaking
By the end of class X students should be able to Talk about future plans and intentions Ask someone to clarify and elaborate what they have just said

 Give or seek informal views in an informal discussion with friends Recall and narrate an incident they have seen or remember from their childhood

3. Reading and responding

By the end of class X students should be able to Read and respond to an extract from a story, an e-mail message or song or simple text from the internet Read descriptions of people in the school or class and identify who they are Read fairytales or stories and summarise them in German or English

4. Writing
By the end of class X students should be able to Write a short text using pointers e.g. biography Summarise an unseen passage in English Writing a semi-official E-mail with complete sentence constructions

5. Intercultural awareness
By the end of class X students should be able to

Handle everyday problems i.e. cope with less routine problems on public transport, handle travel arrangements Demonstrate understanding of and respect for cultural diversity Recognise how aspects of the culture of different countries become incorporated into the daily life of others Recognise advantages of another culture and try and apply to their own lives e.g. environmental awareness and waste management

6. Knowledge about language

By the end of class X students should be able to

Learn to use subordinate clauses of time, place and purpose to qualify the main clause Learn the use of grammatical structure e.g. verbs with prepositions to express oneself more succinctly

7. Language learning strategies

By the end of class X students should be able to

Apply known rules when creating new language Integrate new language into previously learnt language Use the context of what they see/ read to determine some of the meaning

German Class IX For first Summative Module 7

Lesson Situation/ Topic Lesson 1 Professions and their characteristics Speech intention To ask and talk about professional plans To talk about the positive and negative aspects of a profession Structure werden- to become Genetiv Revision of the subordinate clause weiland introduction of dass Suggested activity Students discuss their future professional plans Counselling Game Guessing the profession after listening to the description of what one does

Skills

Reading Comprehension seen passage with True/False exercises Writing: Students maintain a diary during the year recording their progress in German language learning To talk about future plans To draw comparisons between people and things To predict the future Future tense Comparative and superlative for adjectives and adverbs Revision of interrogative pronouns Compare celebrities and show ones preferences. Compare cars, mobikes, gadgets , clothes etc. A day in my life in the year 2050 Find out, how many types of schools are there in Germany and what is the difference between them

Lesson 2

Future Prospects

Skills

Writing a text with given elements Speaking: A simulated conversation on future plans (Structure to be given) To lay down conditions To express an intention and to set an aim Subordinate clause wenn Subordinate clause um.zu Verb specific prepositions Revision of Modal verbs Students discuss conditions under which they would undertake a journey and set aims for the same Webquest- students look for a language course in one of the geman speaking countries ,suitable for their age group and exposure to the German language

Lesson 3

Language holiday

Skills

Writing: Write a postcard to a friend from a vacation spot you are visiting Listening: Comprehension with multiple choice exercises

For second Summative Module 8

Lesso n Lesson 1

Situation/ Topic Selecting a Life partner

Speech intention To talk about the past To ask for the confirmation of an occurrence and fix it temporally .

Structure Perfect of strong verbs Perfect of haben and sein Introduction of double barrel verbs eg. Kennenlernen Revision of dass Revision of separable verbs

Suggested activity Students prepare their resume Students prepare the resume of a celebrity

Skills

Reading: Comprehension Seen Passage (Does the text contain the following information, If yes, where?) Writing: Write a paragraph on favourite past times
To reflect about their past To narrate what had taken place when Simple past (Praeteritum) of Modal verbs Simple past (Praeteritum) of haben and sein Subordinate clause als Students discuss their time in Kindergarten Students discuss their favourite activities at the ages of 5, 8, 10,and 12 years

Lesson 2

Memories

Skills

Reading: Comprehension: Unseen Passage with questions about the content using interrogative pronouns Writing: Write the biography of a famous person
Simple past of both strong and weak verbs Subordinate clause of purpose damit Revision of Dative und Akkusative Personalpronomen Writing: Summarising an seen passage in English Listening: hear a text and complete a text with blanks To narrate fairytales and stories Students read Fairytales in German . eg. Fairytales by Grimm brothers

Lesson 3

Fairytales

Skills

Class IX Suggested activities for Formative Assessments 1 and 2

Suggested activities for Formative Assessment 1 Students talk about their future plans

Basis of Evaluation Vocabulary

 2. Group discussion followed by presentation on a day in ones life in 2050

Confidence Presentation Fluency Diction Creativity Vocabulary Confidence Presentation Originality Acting skill Creativity Understanding of theme Recognition of character Confidence Understanding of topic Presentation Clarity of ideas Creativity Understanding of text Correct response to questions Analytical ability Originality Creativity Fluency Imagination Expression Memorisation of correct spelling Correct sentence formation Right usage of word Part of speech Promptness Imagination Presentation Fluency of ideas Confidence Concise expression

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Dumb Charade(in groups). One Member of each group to enact Situations Characters Professions Power point presentation on schooling system in Germany .

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Listening comprehensions (in the text book and others from internet or other sources) Composing a text or changing the given text. Visual stimulus in the form of picture, cartoon ,movie clip etc.to be provided Verbal stimulus in the form of words, stories, incidents etc. to be provided) Spell check (can be a group activity also) spelling meaning pronunciation sentence making Just a minute Topics can be from the text or from life .

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Suggested activities for Formative Assessments 3 and 4

Suggested activities for Formative Assessment 2. Resume : a. Self b. Celebrity Basis of Evaluation Vocabulary

 2.Group discussion followed by presentation (eg. Favourite past times)

Presentation Originality Concise expression Understanding of topic Conversational skills Confidence Presentation Acting skill Creativity Understanding of theme Recognition of character Confidence Diction Fluency Understanding of text Correct response to questions Analytical ability Originality Creativity Fluency Imagination expression Memorisation of correct spelling Correct sentence formation Right usage of word Part of speech Promptness Imagination Presentation Fluency of ideas Confidence Concise expression

3.Dumb Charade(in groups) One Member of each group to enact Situations Characters Professions etc. Others to identify 4. Reading aloud of a fairy tales (texts to be provided by the teachers , from internet or the library) 5. Listening comprehensions (in the text book and others from internet or other sources) 6. Composing a text or changing the given text. Visual stimulus in the form of picture, cartoon ,movie clip etc.to be provided Verbal stimulus in the form of words, stories, incidents etc. to be provided) 7. Spell check (can be a group activity also) spelling meaning pronunciation sentence making 8. Just a minute Topics can be from the text or from life .

Assessment Scheme for Class IX First Summative

1.Summarizing a German passage in English(seen) 2. Comprehension (unseen short answers) 3. Comprehension(unseen objective type questions) 4. Composition based on verbal Stimulus such as Notice, letter, e Mail(30-40 words) 10 marks 10 marks 10 marks 10 marks

5. Applied Grammar : a. Subordinate Clause(weil, dass , wenn, umzu) b. Modal Verbs c. Adjectives(comparative and superlative) d. Prepositions e. werden(as a verb and auxiliary verb) f. Articles Second Summative

40 marks

1.Summarizing a German passage in English(unseen) 2. Comprehension (unseen passage) 3. Comprehension(unseen passage) 4. Composition based on verbal Stimulus such as Notice, letter, e Mail(30-40 words) 5. Postcard(30-40words) or Paragraph writing(50-60 words) 6. Completing a passage with the vocabulary provided 6. Applied Grammar : a. Perfekt b. Separable verbs c. Prepositions d. Past tense e. Subordinate clauses(als, dass, damit..) f. Question making g.Accusative/Dative personal pronouns BOOKS The following teaching material is prescribed for classes IX and X : Prescribed Book :

8 marks 12 marks 12 marks 4 marks 4 marks 8 marks 32 marks

Wir 3 (Textbook and Workbook) (Klett Publishing House, Published In India by Goyal Publishers) Planet Ping Pong 2 DVD- Wir Live Langenscheidt Euro Dictionary K.M. Sharma; German-Hindi/ HindiGerman Dictionary. Rachna Publishing House

Suggested References

Class X Content
For first Summative Module 9
Lesso n Situation/ Topic Characterstics of a person Speech intention To describe a person physically To describe his/ her personality traits Structure Adjectives as attributes -with indefinite Article In Nominative and Accusative case Interrogative Structures : Was fr ein/eine? Suggested activity 20 questions to identify a famous personality Relate characteristics to specific sun signs

Lesson 1

Skills

Writing: Write the description of a person in class Reading: Read the horoscopes in German newspapers and extract the information relevant to you and your friend

Lesson 2 Skills

To Adjective als Attribute Each student brings pictures of describe garments to class and describes With definite Article Fashion garments them Interrogative pronoun: To express Welch your opinions about fashion Writing: Summarising an unseen German language passage in English To Relative pronoun in Role Play : Discussion between describe your Nominative and parents and chid about going Parent-child family members Accusative out with friends for a movie late relationship in the evening To Relative clause characterise your relationship with them Writing : Write a mail to your parents while you are away on an adventure camp Reading : Reading comprehension of unseen passage

Lesson 3

Skills

For second Summative Module 10

Lesso n

Situation/ Topic Environment

Speech intention

Structure

Suggested activity

Lesson 1

Skills

To talk about Indirect questions Find out about waste environmenta in the form of management in your school l problems subordinate clauses Suggest ways in which you To discuss can help protect the measures to environment save the environment Reading : Visual material is to be matched with the text and suitable title to be provided Related sentences have to be completed with words from the provided Text

Lesson 2

Skills

Lesson 3 Skills

To discuss Verb + Start an eco-club in your class about socially Prepositions Find out how waste disposal is relevant issues Interrogative structured in Germany To discuss pronouns with about how one can prepositions for people contribute towards and things and answers alleviating social to the same issues Writing : Make a Poster appealing to students to keep the school premises clean Reading :Read Advertisements and extract the relevant information from them School To discuss the Recognition of the content and passive structure magazine layout of a without active usage school (present tense) magazine Relative sentencesGenitive Write a notice for the school board asking for contributions to the school magazine Write a short advertisement for the school magazine announcing the establishment of a German club and requesting students to join Youth and social awareness

Class X Suggested activities for Formative Assessments 1 and 2

Suggested activities for Formative Assessment Quiz on famous personalities (e.g. playing 20 questions in the class)

Basis of Evaluation Vocabulary Syntax

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Group discussion on Sun Signs and their characteristics.

Understanding of topic Conversational skills Confidence Presentation Acting skill Creativity Understanding of theme Recognition of character Confidence Diction Fluency Acting skill Creativity Understanding of text Correct response to questions Analytical ability Originality Creativity Fluency Imagination expression Memorisation of correct spelling Correct sentence formation Right usage of word Part of speech Promptness Imagination Presentation Fluency of ideas Confidence Concise expression

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Dumb Charade(in groups). One Member of each group to enact Situations Characters Role play: Discussion between parents and child about going out with friends for a movie late in the evening.

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Listening comprehensions (in the text book and others from internet or other sources) Composing a text or changing the given text. Visual stimulus in the form of picture, cartoon ,movie clip etc.to be provided Verbal stimulus in the form of words, stories, incidents etc. to be provided) Spell check (can be a group activity also) spelling meaning pronunciation sentence making Just a minute Topics can be from the text or from life .

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Suggested activities for Formative Assessments 3 and 4

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Suggested activities for Formative Assessment Project work : Outline the waste management system in the school and suggest improvements.

Basis of Evaluation Vocabulary Creativity Presentation skills

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Power point presentation on waste management system and ecological awareness in Germany

Understanding of topic Creativity Confidence Presentation skills Acting skill Creativity Understanding of theme Recognition of character Creativity Knowledge of language Vocabulary Expression Understanding of text Correct response to questions Analytical ability Originality Creativity Fluency Imagination Expression Memorization of correct spelling Correct sentence formation Right usage of word Part of speech Promptness Imagination Presentation Fluency of ideas Confidence Concise expression

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Dumb Charade (in groups). One Member of each group to enact Situations Characters Writing articles (in German) for the school magazine.

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Listening comprehensions (in the text book and others from internet or other sources) Composing a text or changing the given text. Visual stimulus in the form of picture, cartoon ,movie clip etc.to be provided Verbal stimulus in the form of words, stories, incidents etc. to be provided) Spell check (can be a group activity also) spelling meaning pronunciation sentence making Just a minute Topics can be from the text or from life .

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Assessment for Class X First Summative 1.Summarizing a German passage in English(unseen)

2. Comprehension (unseen short answers) 3. Comprehension(unseen objective type questions) 4. Composition based on verbal Stimulus such as Notice, letter, formal e Mail, poster 5. Applied Grammar : a. Adjective endings in Nominativ and Akkusativ 10 marks 10 marks 10 marks 10 marks 40 marks

b. Was fr ein / welche c. Relative pronoun in Nominativ and Akkusativ d. Prepositions e. Subjunctive(Konjunktiv II wre , htte and wrde + infinitive)

Second Summative 1.Summarizing a German passage in English(unseen) 2. Comprehension (unseen passage) 3. Comprehension(unseen passage) 4. Composition based on verbal Stimulus such as Notice, letter, formal e Mail, poster 5. Completing a passage with the vocabulary provided 6. Applied Grammar : a. Perfekt b. Passiv Present without modal verbs c. Fixed prepositions with verbs d. Adjective endings e. Subordinate clauses BOOKS The following teaching material is prescribed for classes IX and X :
PRESCRIBED BOOK : Wir 3 (Textbook and Workbook) (Klett Publishing House, Published in India by Goyal Publishers) Planet Ping Pong 2 DVD- Wir Live Langenscheidt Euro Dictionary K.M. Sharma; German-Hindi/ HindiGerman Dictionary. Rachna, Publishing House

10 marks 10 marks 10 marks 10 marks 05 marks 35 marks

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