IE · Subject guide
German
Leaving Certificate German (NCCA specification), Higher and Ordinary Level, with the SEC examination.
01 · Overview
German
Leaving Certificate German (NCCA specification), Higher and Ordinary Level, with the SEC examination.
- Subject guide
- Leaving Certificate
- Topics mapped
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02 · Complete topic map
Complete topic map
Every topic recorded for this subject in the curriculum is reproduced below in its full hierarchy. The descriptions reflect the mapped scope without implying additional exam rules.
- 01
Meeting people and maintaining social relations
Introducing oneself and others, getting acquainted, and using everyday courtesies to start, sustain and close social contact in German.
- 02
Making plans and discussing future action
Talking and writing about intentions, arrangements and future events, including invitations, suggestions and travel or career plans.
- 03
Climate and weather
Understanding, seeking and giving information about weather conditions and climate, including forecasts and seasonal descriptions.
- 04
Travel and transport
Coping with the practicalities of getting around by various means of transport, asking for directions, and handling journeys and itineraries.
- 05
Buying goods and services
Managing shopping and transactions such as prices, quantities, ordering and dealing with services in German-speaking settings.
- 06
Dealing with emergencies
Recognising, reporting and responding to accidents, problems and urgent situations, and seeking or offering help.
- 07
Influencing a course of action
Facilitating, encouraging, persuading or impeding actions by giving advice, instructions, warnings and requests.
- 08
Expressing feelings and attitudes
Understanding and conveying emotions, opinions, preferences, agreement and disagreement in personal and social contexts.
- 09
Managing a conversation
Sustaining spoken interaction by opening, holding and yielding turns, checking understanding, clarifying and repairing communication.
- 10
Engaging in discussion
Taking part in extended discussion of topics and issues, presenting points of view and responding to those of others.
- 11
Passing on messages
Relaying, summarising and reporting information received from others in spoken or written form.
- 12
Linguistic skills: structures and grammar
Building the grammatical knowledge and structural exponents needed to realise the communicative performance targets across all themes.
- 13
Learning about language from target-language material
Using authentic German texts to explore language as a social, regional and educational phenomenon and how language changes over time.
- 14
Exploring and relating language to meaning and attitude
Examining how meaning is organised and how choices of language reflect register, attitude and tone.
- 15
Reflecting on your experience of learning German
Talking and writing about one's own encounter with the language and developing strategies for effective, autonomous language learning.
- 16
Consulting reference materials
Using dictionaries, grammars and other reference tools to support comprehension, vocabulary growth and accuracy.
- 17
Culture and everyday life of the German-speaking world
Learning about and discussing present-day life, customs, the arts, media and contemporary issues in German-speaking communities.
- 18
Reading literary texts and intercultural comparison
Reading modern German literary works and a German-language film, and comparing relations and broad issues between Ireland and the target-language community.
03 · Where this subject applies
Where this subject applies
These pathways and regions are explicitly connected to the subject in the curriculum.
Levels and pathways
Higher Level
Higher Level — the more demanding level, with broader and deeper content and the H1–H8 grade scale.
Ordinary Level
Ordinary Level — the foundational level covering the core of the syllabus, graded O1–O8.
Regions
All registered regions
04 · Official sources
Official sources
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Public references
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