Welcome to 'Time for German' - a 100 Lesson Scheme of Work which will take your learner from complete beginner to pre-intermediate level in the German language. More importantly though, your learner will have lots of fun along the way and will develop a love of language learning. 

Most students join me in my course for complete beginners - 'Time for German 101', which currently runs on multiple occasions on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Students do not require any previous knowledge of German and each weekly 45-minute class starts with fresh new vocabulary so they can join at any time.  I teach every class and respond to every message. As a father of 2 girls myself, I understand parents are busy and things come up so you can transfer between the classes with the same lesson being taught across the classes in any given week. Furthermore you pay weekly to keep it simple and can pause or stop your subscription whenever you like. 

A printable sheet containing all vocabulary for each lesson will be provided a few days before each lesson starts and an additional activity will also be provided so that the learning can continue outside of the classroom. These 'additional activities' include crosswords, wordsearches and translation activities and I find that many of my students have a 'Time for German' folder that they keep all of their documents in for reference and to revise the learning done in class. Download the free 'Time for German' cover and lesson checklist here and see a greater breakdown of the lessons taught on each course:

Time for German '101', runs for 16 lessons and then I recommend your child progresses to '102'. Some children join me at 102 as they already have some German such as numbers, colors, months, days of the week, some animals, some foods etc... some children even join me at 103 or 104. If your child already knows some German then please do contact me so I can advise the best course for them - again I have multiple 102, 103 and 104 courses running.

Here is my recommended course sequence:

1 - Time for German 101 (16 Lessons)

2 - Time for German 102 (16 Lessons)

Then you will be ready for the '103 Track'. It does not matter in which order you do the following courses but this is the order that they will take place on the same day and in the same time slot. Just make sure you book onto the follow-up course and complete all 48 lessons in 103: 

3 - Time for German 103 - Beginner to Intermediate World Languages Course: Version 1 - Reading Focus (16 Lessons)

3 - Time for German 103: Grimm German Grammar 1 - Rapunzel's Routine & Conjunctions  (4 Lessons)

3 - Time for German 103: Grimm German Grammar 2 - Hansel and Gretel (4 Lessons)

3 -  Time for German 103 - Beginner to Intermediate World Languages Course: Version 2 - Verb Focus (16 Lessons)

3 - Time for German 103: Grimm German Grammar 3 - Dornröschen and the Perfect Tense  (4 Lessons)

3 - Time for German 103: Grimm German Grammar 4 - The Frog Prince (4 Lessons)

After completing 103, there are 20 more lessons in 104 at the pre-intermediate level. These lessons will also require students to create their own videos speaking German for up to a minute and then post them to the classroom where I can watch and comment:

4 - Time for German 104 - Becoming a German Speaker: Version 1 (10 Lessons)

4 - Time for German 104 - Version 2: Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in Woods (10 Lessons)

Throughout my many years experience of teaching German, students have often said that my lessons were 'easy', despite the ambitious learning objectives of the lessons. In my previous schools, I was the co-operative learning specialist and school lead, employing creative learning strategies and techniques to make my lessons more engaging, fun and co-operative. Throughout the courses, I will use fun slides and activities to engage the students and learners will also be able to practise conversations with each other. I will ask lots of questions to build up the student's knowledge into functional sentences and at the end of the class, students will take part in a fun quiz to test out their new knowledge. 

As a former class teacher of 6-, 7- and 8-year-olds, and a co-operative learning specialist and school lead, I have spent years selecting and refining the very best strategies and techniques for teaching beginners German. The result is a truly unique scheme of work that makes lessons engaging, enjoyable, and highly effective. Along the way, children interact with familiar, interesting and sometimes mischievous characters such as Hansel and Gretel, cheeky Frechel, Rapunzel, the Frog Prince, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, and even a few friendly aliens. 

Please feel free to explore the free resources on my website. Many of these were created over ten years ago and have since been refined, updated, and transformed into the lessons that form my current Time for German courses.