Work samples

Languages: German

Foundation to Year 2

Satisfactory

Colour quiz

Summary of task

Students learnt to say and write colours in German and how to pronounce some German sounds. This task consisted of two parts: 

  • Part 1: Students were asked to create a ‘Colour Quiz’ for a peer to complete. Students were asked to draw six pictures of their choice and colour them in solid colour. Next to each picture, students had to write three colours in German, one being correct. 
  • Part 2: Students were given another student’s colour quiz. They were asked to look at the pictures and choose the corresponding colour by using a peg and saying the colour aloud.

Achievement standard

By the end of Year 2, students interact with teachers and peers through actionrelated talk and play. They introduce themselves, exchange greetings and farewells, for example, Ich heiße ... Auf Wiedersehen! and express likes and dislikes. When interacting, they use short formulaic expressions, for example, Morgen! DankeAlles Gute zum GeburtstagFrohe WeihnachtenGuten Appetit! and make simple statements, such as Das ist ... Ich wohne in ... Ich mag ... They use repetitive language and respond to simple instructions when participating in games, shared activities and classroom routines. They use visual, non-verbal and contextual cues such as intonation, gestures and facial expressions to help make meaning, and reproduce some distinctive sounds and rhythms of spoken German, including ch, u, r and z. Students identify specific words and information, such as names of people, places or objects, in simple shared texts related to personal worlds. They convey factual information about self, family and possessions at word and simple sentence level. They respond to and create simple spoken and written texts, using modelled examples and formulaic language. They use short phrases and simple sentences to identify and describe people and objects in the family and school domains such as der Lehrer, eine Freundin, Das ist mein Stift, including some pronouns, for example, ich, du, ersie, es, wir and possessive adjectives, mein/e, dein/e. They use nein and nicht for negation, and verb forms bin, bist and ist, with an adjective. Students explain the meaning and use of different German words and expressions, and create texts in German and English for their immediate learning environment. They identify similarities and differences between German and their own language(s) and culture(s), noticing that using a language involves behaviours as well as words.  

Students identify ways that German sounds different to English but recognise that it uses the same alphabet. They identify some words that are written the same in both German and English but pronounced differently. They identify features of different types of texts. They give examples of words that German and English borrow from each other and from other languages, and identify different ways of greeting and interacting with people. They make connections between the languages people use and who they are and where they live. 

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