Grade 8German

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 8 German curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1Listening and SpeakingNine situations, heard and answered in real time.9 topics·117 questions

  • Oral Expression, Active Listening: Greetings and Introduction

    3 skills

    Greeting somebody and introducing yourself, said aloud and understood when said back.

  • Interactive Speaking, Listening for Information: Extended Family

    3 skills

    Talking about relatives beyond the household, and following somebody else doing the same.

  • Oral Expression, Active Listening: My Surroundings

    4 skills

    Describing where you live, and understanding a description of somewhere else.

  • Interactive Speaking, Listening for Information: Time

    3 skills

    Giving and catching times, dates and arrangements.

  • Active Listening: Fun and Enjoyment: Travel

    3 skills

    Following somebody talking about a journey or a holiday.

  • Interactive Speaking, Listening for Information: Foods and Drinks

    3 skills

    Ordering, offering and understanding what is offered back.

  • Oral Expression, Active Listening: My Body: Feelings, Emotions and Needs

    3 skills

    Saying how you feel and what you need, and recognising it when somebody else does.

  • Interactive Speaking, Listening for Information: Weather and Environment

    3 skills

    Talking about the weather, and taking the detail out of a forecast.

  • Oral Expression, Active Listening: Getting Around: Transport

    3 skills

    Asking about transport, and understanding the answer.

2ReadingReading aloud and reading for meaning, across the same nine situations.9 topics·81 questions

  • Reading Aloud (Fluency): Greetings and Introduction

    3 skills

    Reading a greeting aloud so it sounds natural rather than decoded.

  • Reading Comprehension: Extended Family

    3 skills

    Reading about a family and working out the relationships in it.

  • Reading Aloud (Articulation): My Surroundings

    3 skills

    Saying it properly. Pronunciation tested where it cannot be hidden.

  • Reading Comprehension: Time

    3 skills

    Reading timetables and arrangements, and answering on the detail.

  • Reading Aloud (Fluency): Fun and Enjoyment: Travel

    3 skills

    Reading a travel account smoothly and at a sensible pace.

  • Reading Comprehension: Foods and Drinks

    3 skills

    Reading a menu or a recipe and acting on it.

  • Reading Aloud (Articulation): My Body: Feelings, Emotions and Needs

    3 skills

    Pronunciation again, on the vocabulary of health and feeling.

  • Reading Comprehension: Weather and Environment

    3 skills

    Reading a forecast or a short environmental piece for the facts in it.

  • Reading Aloud (Fluency): Getting Around: Transport

    3 skills

    Reading directions and transport information aloud.

3WritingThe nine again in writing, with a different kind of writing attached to each.9 topics·52 questions

  • Guided Writing (Creative Writing: Dialogues): Greetings and Introduction

    3 skills

    Writing a short conversation between two people meeting.

  • Guided Writing (Vocabulary): Extended Family

    3 skills

    Writing about relatives, with the right word for each.

  • Guided Writing (Sentence Construction): My Surroundings

    3 skills

    Describing a place in correctly built sentences rather than a list of words.

  • Guided Writing (Creative Writing: Poems): Time

    3 skills

    A short poem about time. Creative work with a vocabulary target inside it.

  • Guided Writing (Orthography): Fun and Enjoyment: Travel

    3 skills

    Writing about travel with the spelling counted.

  • Guided Writing (Functional Writing: Menu): Foods and Drinks

    3 skills

    A menu in German. Small, specific, and genuinely useful.

  • Guided Writing (Word Order and German Orthography Rules): My Body: Feelings, Emotions and Needs

    3 skills

    Where the verb goes, and when a noun takes a capital. The two rules German learners get wrong most.

  • Guided Writing (Vocabulary): Weather and Environment

    3 skills

    Writing about weather and the environment, with the words supplied so the focus is on using them.

  • Guided Writing (Creative Writing: Songs): Getting Around: Transport

    3 skills

    Writing a short song about getting about. Vocabulary learnt by singing it.

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 8 German curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

Marked by a machine, written by a person

Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

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