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Subject Code - 020
CBSE Syllabus andClass
Assessment
Class (2025-26)
(2024-2025)
Scheme (2023-2024)
IX-X (2026-27)
IX-X (2025-26)

German (code 020)

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Translation is a science within itself and needs rigorous training before it can be attempted.

What has been incorporated are short formal Emails and dialogue writing. This is in consonance with the language policy
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Listening skills and speaking skills have also been incorporated. The same approach as to reading applies also to listening
skills. Authentic texts using audio texts from all German speaking countries with appropriate exercises should be used.
People in German speaking countries have multiple dialects and accents and are proud to use them in their day to day
life. It is important to make students aware of this and get their ears used to these regional differences. The Swiss do
speak in a somewhat different accent than the residents of the city of Hamburg in northern Germany.
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Learning Objectives
The following objectives build upon the objectives already stated for classes VI to VIII. The objectives given
below will apply to both classes IX and X which can be treated as one unit
1. Listening and responding
By the end of class X students should be able to
➢ Listen and understand the main points and some details from an extended dialogue or a short-
spoken text and respond.
➢ Listen to a short audio text and respond by asking for more details.
➢ Listen to announcements at public places e.g., railway stations and act accordingly.
➢ Listen to an audio text, extract the relevant details and complete the gaps in a written text.

2. Speaking
By the end of class X students should be able to
➢ Talk about plans and intentions.
➢ Ask someone to clarify and elaborate what they have just said.
➢ Give or seek informal views, suggestions and advice in an informal discussion with friends.
➢ Recall and narrate an incident they have seen or remember from their childhood.

3. Reading and responding
By the end of class X students should be able to
➢ Read and respond to an extract from newspaper article or simple text from the internet.
➢ Read blog entries and advertisements and respond to them.
➢ Read personal messages such as E-Mails, SMS etc. and respond to them.

4. Writing
By the end of class X students should be able to
➢ Write a short dialogue.
➢ Writing a semi-official or informal E-mails with complete sentence constructions.

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5. Intercultural awareness
By the end of class X students should be able to
➢ Handle everyday problems i.e., cope with less routine problems on public transport, handle travel
arrangements.
➢ Demonstrate understanding of and respect for cultural diversity.
➢ Recognise how aspects of the culture of different countries become incorporated into the daily life of
others.
➢ Recognise advantages of another culture and try and apply to their own lives e.g., environmental
awareness and waste management.
6. Knowledge about language
By the end of class X students should be able to
➢ Learn to use subordinate clauses of time, place and purpose to qualify the main clause.
➢ Learn the use of grammatical structure e.g., tenses, verbs with prepositions to express oneself more
succinctly.

7. Language learning strategies
By the end of class X students should be able to
➢ Apply known rules when creating new language
➢ Integrate new language into previously learnt language
➢ Use the context of what they see/ read to determine some of the meaning

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Class IX

Lesson Situation/ Topic Speech intention Structure

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Assessment Scheme for Class IX
ANNUAL EXAMINATION MAX. MARKS 80

Section A-Reading (15 marks)

1. Comprehension (unseen passage) 10 marks

2. Comprehension (unseen passage) 5 marks

Section B –Writing (10 marks)

1. Based on stimulus, compose an E-Mail (appx. 50 words) 5 marks

2. Based on stimulus, compose a dialogue or an SMS 5 marks

Section C – Applied Grammar (40 marks)

1. Fixed prepositions with verbs, Question words “Wo(r)”, Pronouns “da(r)” 8 marks

2. Article and nouns in Genitive, Genitive prepositions 8 marks

3. Subordinate clauses (um…zu, wӓhrend, bevor, damit, wenn) 8 marks

4. Subjunctive (Konjunktiv II) “würde” + Infinitive 8 marks

5. Relative pronouns (Nominative, Accusative and Dative) 4 marks

6. Separable verbs 4 marks

Section D -Textbook (15 marks)

1. Completing a seen passage with the vocabulary provided 5 marks

2. Completing a seen passage with the vocabulary provided 5 marks

3. Comprehension (seen) 5 marks

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Internal Assessment, Class IX
(Total weightage out of 20)

1. Periodic tests, dictations 5/20
2. Listening comprehensions 5/20
3. Speaking activities – role play, presentations, recitation… 5/20
(Could be conducted as individual or group activity)
4. Regularity and quality of classwork & homework 5/20

PRESCRIBED TEXT BOOK: Beste Freunde B 1.1 (Lessons 1-5)

(Hueber Publications, Published in India by Goyal Publishers)

SUGGESTED REFERENCES: Team Deutsch 2/1
Planet 2
Ping Pong 2
Wir 3
Langenscheidt Euro Dictionary
K.M. Sharma; German-Hindi/Hindi-German
Rachna Publishing House

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Class X

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ASSESSMENT SCHEME FOR CLASS – X
ANNUAL EXAMINATION MAX. MARKS 80

Section A-Reading (15 marks)

1. Comprehension (unseen) 10 marks

2. Comprehension (unseen) 5 marks

Section B –Writing (10 marks)

1. Based on stimulus, compose an E-Mail (appx. 50 words) 5 marks

2. Based on stimulus, compose a dialogue or an SMS 5 marks

Section C – Applied Grammar (40 marks)

1. Past Tense 8 marks

2. Adjective endings with and without articles (Nominative, Accusative) 8 marks

3. Relative pronouns with prepositions, relative pronouns “wo”, “was” 8 marks

4. Prepositions (of place and direction) 8 marks

5. Conjunctions (als, ob, weil, obwohl) 4 marks

6. Adjective in comparative, superlative forms. 4 marks

Section D -Textbook (15 marks)

1. Completing a seen passage with the vocabulary provided 5 marks

2. Completing a seen passage with the vocabulary provided 5 marks

3. Comprehension (seen) 5 marks

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CBSE SYLLABUS AND ASSESSMENT SCHEME CLASS IX - X

Internal Assessment, Class X
(Total weightage out of 20)

1. Periodic tests, dictations 5/20
2. Listening comprehensions 5/20
3. Speaking activities – role play, presentations, recitation… 5/20
(could be conducted as individual or group activity)
4. Regularity and quality of classwork & homework 5/20

PRESCRIBED TEXT BOOK: Beste Freunde B 1.1 (Lessons 6-9)

(Hueber Publications, Published in India by Goyal Publishers)

SUGGESTED REFERENCES: Team Deutsch 2/2
Planet 2
Ping Pong 2
Wir 3
Langenscheidt Euro Dictionary
K.M. Sharma; German-Hindi/ Hindi-
German Dictionary. Rachna Publishing House

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