Grammar

LOWER 6 - GRAMMAR

There must be a thorough revision of Basic Grammar and then the introduction of more advanced material eg passive, subjunctive. Please follow Aktion Grammatik and use its exercises.

In addition all students will be issued with Alles Klar and Kernpunkte for easy reference.

The need for grammatical accuracy will be most evident in the oral exam. There will be a multiple choice grammar cloze test in unit 3.

UPPER 6 - GRAMMAR

Before the completion of the first piece of COURSEWORK there must be URGENT revision in the first 6 weeks of:

the passive
the subjunctive / reported speech / the conditional
word order and advanced sentence structure
the case system
adjective endings

In the next 6 weeks a revision of last year's scheme can be undertaken tailored to the particular needs of individual students.

In the remainder of the year:

USE OF LANGUAGE (UNIT 2 only)
There must be regular practice of use of language type exercises: synonyms, re-writing of sentences (eg participial phrases into relative clauses) and in addition to Aktion Grammatik and Neue Perspektiven, past papers and the old Oxford Entrance papers are most useful.

OTHER EXAM SKILLS
A great deal of practice of the final question of UNITS ONE and TWO is essential ie passages from summarised in German and own comments added. For the Fax question in UNIT ONE key business phrases are to be covered and short directed writing tasks from English into German may be set. See past papers.

Suggested running order for L6 (tried and tested in 1999) Pages are from NEW BOOK!
(U6 have old books)

1. Articles page 30-34 Ex 1-6 prep 8-9 then do 8,9,11,12 in groups
2. Gender pages 48-52 Odd one out page 53 Ex 1 Learn rules and apply to Ex 2 & 3 4 & 6
3. Plurals pages 56-58 Ex 1-5 (Ex 4 good fun)
4. Declensions pages 62-65 Ex 1-6 all good and pronouns pages 69-74 ex 1, 3, 5
5. Determiners pages 39-43 Ex 1-4 Ex 5 & 6 work well split across class.
6. Cases Nom & Acc pages 80-83 Ex 1-5 & 8 + prepositions pages 127 & 131
7. Cases Dative pages 88-92 Ex 3, 6, 5, 7 + prepositions pages 128-131
8. Cases Genitive pages 96-98 Ex 1, 2, 4, 5, 3 + prepositions pages 133-4
9. Adjective endings pages 102-108 Ex 2, 4a, 3
10. Adverbs pages 113-5 Ex 1-3 & 7
11. Comparison of adj pages 119-123 Ex 3 & 8
12. W/O Main clause pages 139-142 Ex 2, 4a, 4b, 8a then 8b, 8c, 2 and 1
13. W/O Subord. Clauses pages 148-150 ex 1, 2, 4, 6a&b, 3, 5
14. W/O Relative clauses pages 155-158 Divide ex 1 then do 2, 4, 5, 6, Write up 2 & 4
15. Verbs Present tense pages 174-176 ex 2a & b then 1 & 3 and 5b
16. Verbs Imperative pages 200-201 ex 5 then 1-4
17. Date & time pages 299-303
18. Verbs Future & Future Perfect pages 195-196 ex 2, 3 & 5
19. Verbs Imperfect tense pages 180-182 Ex 5 (split), 8 & 4 Write up 2 & 3
20. Verbs Perfect & Pluperfect 186-190 ex 1, 2, 5, 3, 9
21. Verbs modal pages 225-230 ex 1-4
22. Verbs Separable pages 217-220 ex 4, 5
23. Verbs reflexive pages 236-238 ex 1-3
24. Verbs Passive pages 256-259 Ex 1, 2, 4, 5, 8a&b, 7
25. Verbs Subjunctive 1 Preferred demonstrating how to report (book confusing) Ex 3 + newspapers
26. Verbs Subjunctive II Preferred own OHP ex 3 & 1 good
27. Verbs Conditional pages 278-280 ex 1, 2, 3, 9, 11