CBSE Senior Secondary Syllabus 2027 German

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Assessment (2024-2025)
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Subject Code - 120
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Class XI-XII
German, (2025-26)
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XI-XII No. 120
(2026-27)
Classes XI and XII
The syllabus for classes XI and XII while following the communicative approach lays more stress on
expansion of vocabulary, improved expression as also student projects.
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Grammar will be revised and teachers are expected to build on the foundation laid in previous years. More
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advanced exercises using the grammar structures already known, have to be practised in class with a clear
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emphasis on applied grammar. By now the teacher should be able to use German as the sole medium of
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communicate on a wide range of everyday topics.

Speaking and writing skills now are on the forefront, though reading and listening skills have also not been
neglected.

Reading should also be more thorough and detailed in nature. It is not enough to just skim a text and extract
the salient points or extract specific information based on our need. It is now also important to read a text and
understand the details.

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In the aural skills department students should be able to follow texts that are lengthy and where the speaker

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In the written portion students will at the end of sclass XII have to summarise a given passage in German in
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once again not been incorporated.

Students will get ample opportunity to speak and express themselves in class. Projects have also been
included in almost every chapter. Ideally an oral test should be a part of the assessment in both years. But
due to systemic constraints this could not be done. The final exam in class XII will test reading and writing
skills as well as grammar.

We aim that when a student leaves school at the end of XII he/she will be able to communicate in everyday
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situations and deal with problems he/she encounters in everyday life. More importantly the German learnt in
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The following learning objectives apply for classes XI and XII.

1. Listening and responding
By the end of class XII students should be able to:
 listen and understand details from an extended dialog or an informative text

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 listen to an audio text, comprehend
 listen to the conversation and judge someone by their behaviour

2. Speaking
By the end of class XII students should be able to:
 talk about a topic explaining the pros and cons of an action or product
 debate on a given topic/ participate in group discussions
 talk about perspectives and probabilities in the future
 talk about historical and personal events in simple language and express opinions
 be a part of a formal or informal interview

3. Reading and responding
By the end of class XII students should be able to:
 read simple literary texts and comprehend them
 understand rules and regulations and respond
 read a text/blog and formulate a response with the given information

4. Writing
By the end of class XII students should be able to:
 write experiential texts
 write about future plans and feelings
 formulate texts as per the norms followed in German speaking countries
5. Intercultural awareness
By the end of class XII students should be able to:
 evaluate various record breaking events in German speaking countries and discuss those in India.
 compare the school situations, youth scene, social concerns, social life in German speaking countries
and India

6. Knowledge about language
By the end of class XII, the students should be able to:
 understand the importance of grammar in expressing oneself better
 understand and draw comparison with unrealistic situations
 understand the relation between structures and certain activities (e.g. passive for technical processes
or subjunctive structures to express wishes)
 understand the sentence structure using subordinate clause

7. Language learning strategies
By the end of class XII, the students should be able to:
 use their knowledge of context and grammar to understand texts involving complex language
 understand the importance of typical characteristics of text types and use them to understand spoken
or written texts and to form new texts .

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German Class XI

Lesson Topic Communication Structure

Lesson Removal of garbage  To talk about changes  Temporal subordinate clause with
10  To debate ‘seit/seitdem’
 To give alternatives  Genetive preposition
 To talk about limitations ‚trotz‘
 Double barrel conjunction
‚entweder…oder‘

Lesson Transport and  To summarise a text  Preposition
11 technology  To talk about ‘zu’ + Dative
preferences  Adjective endings in dative case
 To talk about with definite article
hypothetical situations  Adjective endings in dative case
and their consequences without article
 To talk about hobbies  Hypothetical situation- ‘wenn’ +
subjunctive (K II)

Lesson Memories  To narrate about world  Comparative and Superlative as
12 records adjectives with definite article
 To remember something  Temporal Subordinate clauses
 To understand and with ‘als’ and ‘wenn’
formulate rules and  haben+ zu+ infinitive
regulations

Lesson Travel plans  To give suggestions  Reflexive Verbs with dative and
13  To question ideas and accussative case
proposals  Prepositions of place and time-
 To talk about the weather ‘innerhalb, außerhalb’ + genitive
 Preposition of place- ‘von’ +
dative

Lesson Fashion and fitness  To correlate something  Double barrel conjunctions
14  To express one’s views ‘je…desto’
 Subordinate clause- ‘ohne dass’
and ‘ohne…zu + infinitive‘

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Assessment Scheme for Class XI

ANNUAL EXAMINATION MAX. MARKS 80

Section A – Reading 15 Marks
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3. Based on stimulus compose an e-mail (approx. 80 words) 05 Marks

4. Based on stimulus compose a dialogue 05 Marks

Section C – Applied Grammar 40 Marks

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5. Adjective endings with and without articles 08 Marks
(Nominative, accusative and dative)
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(entweder…oder, seitdem, je…desto,

7. Subjunctive (Konjunktiv II) in Hypothetical situation with ‚wenn‘ 08 Marks

8. Reflexive verbs and pronouns 08 Marks

9. Prepositions (trotz, innerhalb, außerhalb, von, zu) 08 Marks

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12. Comprehension (from the text book) 05 Marks

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INTERNAL ASSESSMENT Max. Marks 20
1. Listening comprehensions 05 Marks
2. Speaking activities (debate, express one’s views, presentations, recitation) 05 Marks
(It could be conducted as individual or group activity)

3. Project Work 10 Marks
(An internet research-based project. It may be a power point presentation or an illustrated file.
It can be individual or group, on topics related to the history and culture of Germany.)

Remarks:
1. In the listening and reading comprehension, marks should not be deducted for grammatical and
orthographical errors.

2. In the written part marks should not be deducted for minor orthographical errors.

PROJECT WORK: Suggested Topics
1. Die Umwelt und Müllentsorgung (Environment and waste disposal)
2. Wohnen in Deutschland (Living in Germany)
3. Autos und Technik (German cars and technology)
4. Erfinderland Deutschland (German Inventions)
5. Hobbys und Sportarten (Hobbies and Sports)
6. Geschichte der Berliner Mauer (History of the German Wall)
7. Reisen durch Deutschland / Österreich / die Schweiz
(Travelling through Germany / Austria / Switzerland)

8. Mode-Trends (Fashion Trends)
9. Gesundheit (Healthy living)
10. Feste und Ferien (Festivals and celebrations)

PRESCRIBED BOOK: Beste Freunde B1.2 (Textbook and Workbook - Chapters 10- 14)
(Hueber Publishing House, Published in India by Goyal Publishers)

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German Class XII

Lesson Topic Communication Structure

Lesson Science fiction  To talk about future plans  Future tense –‘werden’ +
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 To speculate  ‘als ob’ + subjunctive(K II)
 To draw comparison with  Preposition ‘von’ – in place of
unrealistic situations genitive

Lesson Co-existence  To talk about consequences  Subordinate clause :
16  To suggest an alternative ‚sodass‘/‘so…,dass‘
 To describe an event  Passive – present tense and
past tense
 Subordinate clauses- ‘(an)statt
dass and ‘(an)statt … zu +
infinitive

Lesson Setting up a  To formulate rules  Passive in present tense with
17 House  To express one’s feelings modal verbs
 To judge someone by their (NOT TO BE TESTED IN
behaviour GRAMMAR)
 Reciprocal verbs

Lesson Tourism and  To give reasons  Subordinate clause – ‘da’
18 cultural exchange  To lay down a condition  Personal pronouns in
 To negotiate sentences with accusative and
dative
 Subordinate clause – ‘falls’
 Adjectives and past participles
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Assessment Scheme for Class

ANNUAL EXAMINATION Max. Marks: 80

Section A – Reading 15 Marks

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3. Based on stimulus compose an E-mail (approx. 80 words) 05 Marks
4. Based on stimulus compose a dialogue 05 Marks

Section C – Applied Grammar 40 Marks

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8. Future tense (Futur I - werden + Infinitiv) 08 Marks
9. Personal pronouns in accusative and dative case 08 Marks

Section D – Textbook 15 Marks

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INTERNAL ASSESSMENT Max. Marks 20
1. Listening comprehensions 05 Marks
2. Speaking activities (debate, express one’s views, presentations, recitation) 05 Marks
(could be conducted as individual or group activity)

3. Project Work 10 Marks
An internet research-based project. It may be a power point presentation or an illustrated file.
It can be individual or group, on topics related to the history and culture of Germany.

Remarks:
1. In the listening and reading comprehension, marks should not be deducted for grammatical and
orthographical errors.

2. In the written part marks should not be deducted for minor orthographical errors.

PROJECT WORK: Suggested Topics
1. Pläne für die Zukunft (My future plans)
2. Traumberufe der Jugendliche/ Mein Traumberuf
(Dream Professions for the youth/ My dream profession)

3. Mission zum Mars / Ein Tag im Raumschiff (Expedition to Mars/A day in a spaceship)
4. Mein Traumreise / Fantasiereise (Your dream or fantasy trip)
5. Schultag ohne Stress (school days without stress)
6. Soziale Projekte in der Schule (Social responsibility in the school)
7. Studentenleben in Deutschland und Indien (Life of a student in Germany and/or in India)
8. Als Austauchschüler in Deutschland (German Student-Exchange Programm)
9. Eine Auslandsreise (A foreign trip)
10. Alltagsleben und Kultur in Deutschland / in Österreich / in der Schweiz
(Life and culture in Germany, Austria / Switzerland)

11. Feste und Feiern (Festivals and celebrations)
12. Meine Erfahrungen beim Deutschlernen (My experiences while learning German)

PRESCRIBED BOOK: Beste Freunde B1.2 (Textbook and Workbook - Chapters 15- 18)
(Hueber Publishing House, Published in India by Goyal Publishers)

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