Y9 German Exam (1 hour) The Y9 Exam will assess: your knowledge and recall of vocabulary Your translation skills & ability to apply grammar Your reading comprehension skills Your ability to write at varying lengths in German The Y9 Exam will include the following sections: Part 1 (15 minutes) Section 1: Vocabulary (10 marks) Section 2: Translation (10 marks) (Ger-Eng & Eng – Ger) & grammar (10 marks) Part 2 (45 minutes) Section 3: Reading comprehensions Section 4: Written compositions

 Opinions of school subjects (present tense opinion verbs, key vocab)  Your daily routine (present and perfect tense verbs, time, key vocab)  The school rules (modal verbs, future tense verbs, key vocab)  Describing your school (adjectives, opinion phrases, present tense verbs)  Pressures at school (adverbs of time, key vocab)  Talking about your school days ( the perfect tense, the future tense, time phrases)  The definite & indefinite articles (a, the – how to use them)  Expressing opinions in different tenses  Connectives  Qualifiers (very, quite, really, a bit)  Using the negative (how to use it with different tenses)  The present tense  The perfect tense  The future tense (Ich werde + infinitive)  Modal verbs Y9 Revision Topics

Key Verbs INFINITIVEPERFECTPRESENTFUTURE GEHEN (to go) FAHREN (to go/travel) MACHEN (to do) SPIELEN (to play) TRAGEN (to wear) ESSEN(to eat) FINDEN (to find) BESUCHEN (to visit) HABEN (to have) SEIN (to be) Ich bin…. gegangen Ich bin ….. gefahren Ich habe …… gemacht Ich habe ….. gespielt Ich habe …. getragen Ich habe …. gegessen Ich habe …. gefunden Ich habe …. besucht Ich hatte Ich war (I was) Ich gehe Ich fahre Ich mache Ich spiele Ich trage Ich esse Ich finde Ich besuche Ich habe Ich bin Ich werde …. gehen Ich werde ….. fahren Ich werde …. machen Ich werde …. spielen Ich werde ….. tragen Ich werde …. essen Ich werde ….. finden Ich werde …. besuchen Ich werde …haben Ich werde … sein Es gibt = there is /there are Es gab = there was/were Es war = it was Das wird …. Sein= That will be Man muss...+ infinitive = you have to … Man darf (nicht)…+ infinitive = you are (not) allowed to…

Section 1 : Knowledge & recall of vocabulary (? marks in total) 1.Der Schulhof _________________ 2.nützlich_________________ 3.höflich ___________________ 4.gestern ___________________ 5.ziemlich __________________ 6.manchmal __________________ 7.Prüfungen ________________ 8.dreckig __________________ 9.Gymnasium ____________________ 10.rauchen _____________________ 11.But _______________ 12.The library _____________ 13.Drama _______________ 14.There is ___________________ 15.Easy ___________________ 16.In my opinion _______________ 17.We ______________ 18.Difficult _______________ 19.The gym ________________ 20.Favourite subject ________________ 11-20: write the German : write the English meanings

Section 2 : Part A: Translation (? marks) Translate the following sentences into English: 1. Nächste Woche fahre ich auf eine Klassenfahrt 2.Man muss eine Uniform tragen 3. Ich bin zu Fuß in die Schule gegangen 4. Ich werde pünktlich zur Schule kommen 5.Die Aula ist ein Bisschen altmodisch Translate the following sentences into German: 1.The school is great 2.You are not allowed to bully anyone 3.At half past three I go home 4.I will not eat fast food 5.On Saturday I got up at ten o’clock

Section 2 : Part B: Grammar (10 marks) Modal Verbs and Daily Routine (5 marks) Fill in the gap with the correct verb from the box 1. Man _________ die Hausaufgaben machen. 2.Um 7 Uhr __________ ich auf. 3.Man darf keinen Kaugummi _________. 4.Um 8 Uhr _________ ich in die Schule. 5.Um 1 Uhr _________ ich zu Mittag. Definite, Indefinite and Negative (5 marks) Complete the blanks with the correct article 1.______ Kantine. (f.) The 2.______ Klassenzimmer (n.) The 3.______ Uniform (f.) A 4.______ Freunde ( f. pl) No 5.______ Schulhof (m.) The gehe hören esse mache muss bekomme stehe essen kauen besuche gehen

Section A (12 marks) Write 4 sentences in German to describe your school, and your daily routine. Include at least 2 opinions. 1.________________________________________________ 2.________________________________________________ 3.________________________________________________ 4.________________________________________________ Section 4: writing in German I like my school because I go to a … school I don’t like…. School starts at …  Opinions  Reasons  Connectives  Qualifiers  SPaG

Aim to write words. You might include the following Information: Describe what your school is like; What you think about the different areas of your school. Describe what you did yesterday, including the subjects you did and Give opinions. How you are going to do better at school in future. Section B A German school is doing a project on English schools. You have been asked to give them a pupil’s view of your own school. Section 4 : writing in German Success Criteria  Variety of different opinions  Reasons/justifications  Use a variety of verbs  Use a range of tenses & time frames (past/ present/future)  Include longer sentences using connectives to link ideas  Add detail by using time phrases, sequencing words & adverbs of frequency  Describe using adjectives and qualifiers  Negatives  Spelling & punctuation must be accurate