Year 9 Assessment Booklet 2020

IB MYP YEAR 9 – LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: GERMAN Phase 2/3

SEMESTER

STATEMENT OF INQUIRY

CONCEPTS

GLOBAL CONTEXT

CONTENT

ASSESSMENT

Negotiating what to do: • Recreational activities (TV, concerts, music, events, travel) • Making suggestions and giving preferences • Modal verb (möchte) • Adjectives, Comparatives and Superlatives Reporting about the past (Social Events): • Verbs • Holiday activities Discussing problems and solutions: • Youth problems and Solutions • Relationships • All modal verbs • Making complaints and offering advice • Perfect Past Tense • Temporal adverbs

Speaking Test (Criteria C and D) Listening Test (Criterion A)

Connections Function Context

Language plays an important role in social connections. One of its key functions is to facilitate negotiations on what to do.

Personal and Cultural Expression

ONE

Reading Test (Criterion B) Writing Exam (Criteria C and D)

Communication Structure Patterns

Languages have different grammatical structures. To communicate about the past in German, a certain pattern needs to be followed. Modal verbs add more meaning to sentences. People can communicate a more precise message with their use. (Phase 2) Careful word choice can help someone communicate their point of view more effectively and arouse more empathy for their situation. (Phase 3) Using language to share information about cultures brings people together.

Personal and Cultural Expression

Speaking Test ( Criteria C and D)

Communication Meaning Message Word choice Empathy

Identities and Relationships

Listening Test (Criterion A)

TWO

Connection Meaning Context

Supporting arguments with statistics: • Demographics, Patterns and Trends • Advantages and Disadvantages

Reading Exam (Criterion B) Writing Exam (Criteria C and D)

Personal and Cultural Expression

• Cohesive devices • Email conventions

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