Welcome to A Level German! During this course you will build on your existing skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing. You will also study a range of fascinating topics where you will learn a lot about the culture, history and society of Germany and German speaking countries. Our aims are to expand your vocabulary in German, as well as your understanding and accurate application of grammar. You’ll be amazed at how much progress you can make in a relatively short time, but this depends upon you learning small amounts of language on a weekly basis so that you keep building on your skills and refreshing your memory.
With this in mind, it’s important to do some preparation for September to help you start the course with confidence. You’ll quickly see that the more you practise, the sooner you will see positive results and encouraging progress! Below are some activities which will help you keep things ticking over! Try to practise at least two different skills from the suggested activities each week.
Before you start it is really helpful to revise key aspects of German grammar, such as the present, past and future tenses, and word order.
Try the following sites, which are excellent for giving simple grammar explanations, topic-specific vocabulary and online exercises to support your learning. Highlight the ones you prefer.
You could try these slow German podcasts & read the text at the same time:
Try some of the Easy Reading texts or the Nachrichten in leichter Sprache section:
Lingua.com has lots of fantastic short, free reading texts here with multi-choice comprehension exercises. Try the one on holidays: Urlaub in den Bergen, then experiment with some of the others.
Write about 200 words about yourself, including the following points:
This should be handed to your teacher on the first day of term.
Did you know? German is the official language of Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein and one of the official languages in Switzerland and Luxembourg. Germany shares borders with nine other countries. Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, and is the EU’s largest economy.
Alison West
We look forward to seeing you soon!
