German
Grade 4 German: Students develop conversational German skills for everyday situations including daily routines, food ordering, and giving directions, while building foundational grammar knowledge of tenses and cases.
Communication and Everyday Language
Describing Daily Routines
Students use reflexive verbs, time expressions, and vocabulary for morning, midday, and evening activities to describe their daily routines in German, focusing on word order and time adverbials.
Ordering Food and Drinks
Students practice restaurant and café vocabulary, polite forms of ordering and requesting, and explore German dining customs including the Abendbrot tradition.
Asking and Giving Directions
Students learn directional vocabulary (links, rechts, geradeaus), prepositions of place, and practice asking for and giving directions using maps and simple landmark-based routes.
Grammar and Reading
Past Tense: Das Perfekt
Students learn to use the Perfekt (conversational past tense) with haben and sein auxiliaries, form regular and irregular past participles, and describe past events in spoken and written German.
Nominative and Accusative Cases
Students learn the German case system focusing on the nominative (subject) and accusative (direct object) cases, understand how articles change between cases, and practice identifying subjects and objects in sentences.
Reading Simple German Texts
Students read and comprehend A1+ level German texts, applying reading strategies including context clues, cognates, and structure recognition. They practice reading aloud with correct pronunciation.