Elementary courses 
in Crestview Public School
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
in Grand River C.I.:
Beginner 1 and 2
English stream courses: grades
6, 7, 8.
German stream courses:
grades
6, 7, 8.
The goal is to introduce German language knowledge
through vocabulary, colours, numbers and small phrases
Grade 1
– German & English stream
This course starts as well as continues the
development of the students’ comprehension skills through the introduction
of new vocabulary and simple sentence structure using songs, games, stories
and enrichment activities.
By applying various themes (seasons, animals,
clothing, transportation) reading, writing, pronunciation and word
recognition are emphasized.
Guideline: Leitfaden, grade 1 and “Du und ich”.
Prerequisite: N/A
Grade 2
- German & English stream
The course continues from the grade one level
based on the Leitfaden.
The actual course curriculum was developed
by our own teachers (J. Gallina and E. Kruse). It is a very exciting, innovative
course using many different teaching techniques and student participation.
The themes include: school, colours, numbers,
weather, wild animals. Language knowledge (simple articles, verb endings
in the present tense) is taught inherently as part of the themes using
games, poems, puzzles etc.
Guideline: Leitfaden
Prerequisite preferred: grade 1
Grade 3
- German & English stream
In this course the students start with a new
program, Wer? Wie? Was? Mega.
The main themes are: the family, instructions,
numbers, the week, the calendar.
The students are encouraged to speak and read
out loud in class, acting out some stories, doing crossword puzzles and
learning poetry.
Text and workbook: Wer? Wie? Was? Mega 1,
chapters 1 - 5
Prerequisite preferred: grade 2
Grade 4
- German & English stream
Grade 4 continues the development of the students’
knowledge of basic vocabulary. Lessons dealing with the themes: food
and beverage, hobbies, clothes and body parts, and all about “my birthday
party”, expand the students’ vocabulary and grammar.
Geographical themes are a tour through cities
of Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Text and workbook: Wer? Wie? Was? Mega 1,
chapters 6 - 10
Prerequisite: grade 3 E / G, or approval by
the administration
Grade 5
- German & English stream
This course focuses on listening, speaking
and some translation skills.
Improvement of general conversational skills
is stressed. Topics include sports, shopping, celebration of German holidays
(Christmas, Karneval, …) seasons of the year and travel.
A variety of teaching strategies are used including
class discussions, role playing, audio-cassettes and videos.
Text and workbook: Wer? Wie? Was? Mega 2
Prerequisite: grade 4 E / G, or approval of
the administration
For grade 5 to grade 8 students who want to
start learning German but do not have any previous schooling or knowledge
we offer this special course:
Beginner 1 and 2
This 1 - 2 year introductory course is geared
towards students between the ages of 10 and 13.
Its purpose is to enable students to blend
into the mainstream of the German Language School without having to start
at the grade 1 level.
Emphasis is placed on providing a vocabulary
foundation upon which sentence structure and grammatical basic concepts
are built. The main focus is on speaking and pronouniation in communicating
with confidence.
Text and workbook: Pingpong
Prerequisite: a desire to learn German
With the transition into another school (Grand
River Collegiate) we also start to make a clearer distinction between the
two streams, English and German, by starting in different programs.
The English stream starts with the “Pingpong
Neu” program which is written to adress the needs of students who do not
have a significant background in German at home.
The German stream starts with the “Passwort
Deutsch” program which continues to build on their knowledge of German.
English stream courses:
grades 6, 7, 8.
At this level we start to differentiate between
the two streams.
In the English stream we start with a new program,
Pingpong Neu, which reintroduces and reinforces the past years’ achievement
and progresses from there.
The emphasis of this course is on conversational
German as well as the written language, learning vocabulary as well as
grammatical concepts.
Language communication skills are strengthened
through dialogues, journals, independant projects and extra reading.
The course also fosters understanding of the
geography and culture of the German-speaking countries through their literature
and customs. These outcomes are achieved by the use of various media such
as audio-cassettes, videos (Pingpong, Hallo aus Berlin), poetry and written
texts.
This program prepares the students for the
high school credit courses in the English stream starting with LWG BDI,
which they take when in grade 9.
Text and workbook: Ping Pong Neu 1, 2, 3
Prerequisite: grade 5, 6, 7 English stream
or the approval of the administration
German stream courses:
grades 6, 7, 8.
An exciting brand new program which continues
to build on the already existing knowledge of German from home and school.
It focuses on the progression of all 4 language
abilities: understanding, speaking (role playing, presentation), reading
(more complex sentence structures) and writing (more formal grammatical
structures).
Its cultural activities are placed in all German-speaking
countries. Classes are conducted in German and explanations and activities
aim at using only the target language.
At the end of this program in grade 8, the
students will be very able to continue to the German stream credit course:
LWA ADI (grade 9) which leads to the “Zertifikat Deutsch” of the German
gov’t in grade 10 and then progress within their credit courses to the
“Diplom I and II” in grades 11 and 12.
Text and workbook: Passwort Deutsch 1, 2, 3
Prerequisite: grade 5, 6, 7 German or the approval
of the administration
Deutsche Sprachschule Concordia
