CBSE Curriculum for Secondary School Certificate Examination (IX-X) German 2018-19

German (code 020) CBSE

(2018-19)

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

Ø Listen and understand the main points and some details from an extended dialogue or a short spoken text and

respond

Ø Listen to a short audio text and respond by asking for more details

Ø Listen to announcements at public places e.g. railway stations and act accordingly

Ø 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

Ø Talk about future plans and intentions

Ø Ask someone to clarify and elaborate what they have just said

Ø Give or seek informal views in an informal discussion with friends

Ø 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

Ø Read and respond to an extract from a story, an e-mail message or song or simple text from the internet

Ø Read descriptions of people in the school or class and identify who they are

Ø Read fairytales or stories and summarise them in German or English

4. Writing

By the end of class X students should be able to

Ø Write a short text using pointers e.g. biography

Ø Summarise an unseen passage in English

Ø Writing a semi-official E-mail with complete sentence constructions

5. Intercultural awareness

By the end of class X students should be able to

Ø Handle everyday problems i.e. cope with less routine problems on public transport, handle travel arrangements

Ø Demonstrate understanding of and respect for cultural diversity

Ø Recognise how aspects of the culture of different countries become incorporated into the daily life of others

Ø 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

Ø Learn to use subordinate clauses of time, place and purpose to qualify the main clause

Ø 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

Ø Apply known rules when creating new language

Ø Integrate new language into previously learnt language

Ø Use the context of what they see/ read to determine some of the meaning

Class IX

Lesson

Situation/ Topic

Speech intention

Structure

Lesson 1

Celebration

· To talk about future plans
· To allocate responsibilities
· To give a suggestion
· To accept and decline a proposal

·    Subordinate clause “ wenn” “zu” + Infinitive
·    “brauchen” +…+ “zu”
+Infinitive
·    Preposition of time “während”
+ Genitive

Lesson 2

Shopping and consumption

· To follow a timeline and describe an event
· To give reasons for one’s actions and decisions

· Subordinate clause “um…zu”
· Subordinate clause “damit”

Lesson 3

Feelings and relationships

·    To ask for someone’s opinion and give one’s own opinion
·    To agree or disagree
·    To talk about what one would do in a particular situation

·    Question word “Wo(r)”+ Preposition
·    Pronouns “da(r)”+ Preposition
·    Subjunctive II: “würde”+Infinitive
·    Articles and Nouns in Genitive

Lesson 4

Hamburg: A city tour

·    To give a suggestion
·    To give chronological sequence of events
·    To talk about activities happening simultaneously

· Subjunctive II: “sollen”
· Subordinate clauses of time
§ “während”
§ “bevor”

Lesson 5

Relationships and conflicts

·    To give reasons
·    To express likes and dislikes
·    To lay down restrictions

· Causal preposition “wegen”+ Genitive
· Double barrel conjunction: “zwar…aber”
· Relative clause : relative pronouns in Nominative, Accusative and Dative

Assessment Scheme for Class IX

ANNUAL EXAMINATION MAX. MARKS 80

Section A-Reading (20 marks)

1. Comprehension (unseen passage) 10 marks

2. Comprehension (unseen passage) 10 marks

Section B –Writing (10 marks)

3. Based on stimulus, compose an E-Mail (30-40 words) 5 marks

4. Based on stimulus, compose a dialogue 5 marks

Section C – Applied Grammar (40 marks)

5. Fixed prepositions with verbs 6 marks

6. Separable verbs 6 marks

7. Subordinate clauses (um…zu, wӓ hrend, bevor, zwar….aber, wenn) 6 marks

8. Subjunctive (Konjunktiv II) 6 marks

9. Article and nouns in Genitive 10 marks

10. Relative pronouns (Nominative, Accusative and Dative) 6 marks

Section D -Textbook (10 marks)

11. Completing a seen passage with the vocabulary provided 5 marks

12. Comprehension (seen) 5 marks

Internal Assessment, Class IX

(Total weightage out of 20)

1. Periodic tests, dictations 5/20

2. Listening comprehensions 5/20

3. Speaking activities – role play, presentations, recitation… 5/20 (could be conducted as individual or group activity)

4. Regularity and quality of classwork & homework 5/20

PRESCRIBED TEXT BOOK : Beste Freunde B 1.1 (Lessons 1-5)

(Hueber Publications, Published in India by Goyal Publishers)

SUGGESTED REFERENCES : Team Deutsch 2/1

Planet 2

Ping Pong 2 DVD- Wir Live

Langenscheidt Euro Dictionary

K.M. Sharma; German-Hindi/ Hindi- German Dictionary. Rachna Publishing House

Module 9

German – Class – X

Lesson

Situation/Topic

Speech intention

Structure

Suggested activity

Lesson 1

Characteristics of a person

· To describe a person physically
· To describe his/ her personality traits

· Adjectives as attributes
– with indefinite Article
In Nominative and
· Accusative case Interrogative Structures : Was für ein/eine……?

· 20 questions to identify
a famous personality
· Relate characteristics to specific sun
signs

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

Fashion

• To describe garments
• To express your opinions about fashion

• Adjective as Attribute with definite Article Interrogative pronoun : “Welch…”

• Each student brings pictures of garments to class and describes them

Skills

Writing: Summarising an unseen German language passage in English

Lesson 3

Parent-child relationship

• To describe your family members
• To characterize your relationship with them

• Relative pronoun in
• Nominative and Accusative
• Relative clause

• Role Play: Discussion between parents and child about going out with friends for a movie late in the evening

Skills

• Writing : Write a mail to your parents while you are away on an adventure camp
• Reading : Reading comprehension of unseen passage

Module 10

Lesson

Situation/Topic

Speech intention

Structure

Suggested activity

Lesson 1

Environment

• To talk about environmental problems
• To discuss measures to save the environment

• Indirect questions
in the form of subordinate clauses

• Find out about waste management in your school
• Suggest ways in which
you can help protect the environment

Skills

• 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

Youth and social awareness

• To discuss about socially relevant issues
• To discuss about how one can
• contribute towards alleviating social issues

• Verb + Prepositions
• Interrogative pronouns with
• prepositions for people and things and answers to the same

• Start an eco- club in
your class
• Find out how waste disposal is structured
in Germany

Skills

• Writing : Make a Poster appealing to students to keep the school premises clean
• Reading : Read Advertisements and extract the relevant information from them

Lesson 3

School magazine

• To discuss the
content and layout of a school magazine

• Recognition of the passive structure without
active usage (present tense)
• Relative sentences-
• Genitive

Skills

• 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

Class – X

Suggested activities for Module 9

Suggested activities for Formative Assessment

Basis of Evaluation

Quiz on famous personalities (e.g. playing 20 questions in the class

• Vocabulary
• Syntax

Group discussion on Sun Signs and their characteristics.

• Understanding of topic
• Conversational skills
• Confidence
• Presentation

Dumb Charade(in groups).
One Member of each group to enact
• Situations
• Characters

• Acting skill
• Creativity
• Understanding of theme
• Recognition of character

Role play: Discussion between parents and
child about going out with friends for a movie late in the evening.

• Confidence
• Diction
• Fluency
• Acting skill
• Creativity

Listening comprehensions
(in the text book and others from internet or other sources)

• Understanding of text
• Correct response to questions
• Analytical ability

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)

• Originality
• Creativity
• Fluency
• Imagination
• expression

Spell check (can be a group activity also)
• spelling
• meaning
• pronunciation
• sentence making

• Memorisation of correct spelling
• Correct sentence formation
• Right usage of word
• Part of speech

Just a minute Topics can be from the text or from life.

• Promptness
• Imagination
• Presentation
• Fluency of ideas
• Confidence
• Concise expression

Class – X

Suggested activities for Module 10

Suggested activities for Formative Assessment

Basis of Evaluation

Project work : Outline the waste management system in the school and suggest improvements.

• Vocabulary
• Creativity
• Presentation skills

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

• Understanding of topic
• Creativity
• Confidence
• Presentation skills

Dumb Charade (in groups).
One Member of each group to enact
• Situations
• Characters

• Acting skill
• Creativity
• Understanding of theme
• Recognition of character

Writing articles (in German) for the school magazine.

• Creativity
• Knowledge of language
• Vocabulary
• Expression

Listening comprehensions
(in the text book and others from internet or other sources)

• Understanding of text
• Correct response to questions
• Analytical ability

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

• Originality
• Creativity
• Fluency
• Imagination
• Expression

Spell check (can be a group activity also)
• spelling
• meaning
• pronunciation
• sentence making

• Memorization of correct spelling
• Correct sentence formation
• Right usage of word
• Part of speech

Just a minute
Topics can be from the text or from life.

• Promptness
• Imagination
• Presentation
• Fluency of ideas
• Confidence
• Concise expression

CBSE Annual Assessment Scheme for Class – X

Annual Examination Max. Marks 80

Section A-Reading (20 marks)

1. Comprehension (unseen) 10 marks

2. Comprehension (unseen) 10 marks

Section B -Writing (15 marks)

3. Based on stimulus, compose an E-Mail (30-40 words) 10 marks

4. Based on stimulus, compose a dialogue 5 marks

Section C – Applied Grammar (40 marks)

5. Past participle (Partizip Perfekt) 10 marks

6. Passive without modal verbs 5 marks

7. Prepositions 5 marks

8. Fixed prepositions with verbs 5 marks

9. Adjective endings 5 marks

10. Subordinate clauses 5 marks

11. Relative pronoun 5 marks

Section D -Textbook (5 marks)

12. Comprehension (seen with a value based question) 5 marks

Prescribed Book : Wir 3 (Textbook and Workbook, Module 9 & Module 10)

(Klett Publishing House, Published In India by Goyal Publishers) Suggested References : Team Deutsch 2/2

Planet 2

Ping Pong 2 Perfekt in Deutsch Wir Plus

DVD- Wir Live

Langenscheidt Euro Dictionary

K.M. Sharma; German-Hindi/ Hindi-German Dictionary. (Rachna Publishing House)

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