German Family | Die Familie

Browse through our curriculum-aligned German family resources for NZ classrooms.

From The New Zealand Curriculum | Te Mātaiaho
(Ministry of Education, 2026. NZC – German – Overview, Draft 10/2025.)

·       The materials cover key skills of The New Zealand Curriculum | Te Mātaiaho from Novice 1 & 2: “Teaching focuses on […] communicating simple personal details about […] their families […].”

·       Productive skills, speaking and writing: “produce simple, mainly isolated phrases and sentences about themselves, their families, and their immediate surroundings.”  

·       Interacting: „Use formulaic language and simple phrases to exchange information about themselves, their families, and their immediate surroundings.”

·       Linguistic Knowledge during During Novice 1: Close family members, Family composition and size, capitalisation of nouns, conjugation of the verb “haben”, definite and indefinite articles, plural forms.