(2-year course)
Grades: 11–12 (2 year course)
Subject Area/Course credit: World Language, 1 credit
Prerequisite: no prior or very limited previous experience of the target language
IB German ab initio SL is a two-year course designed for students who have no prior knowledge of the German language and plan to take the IB exam at the end of the second year. Using a communicative approach, students are introduced to the target language and its culture and learn to master a number of everyday situations in German. Reading, writing, speaking and listening will be equally stressed. Upon completion of this course, students should be confident with the following grammar principles: present tense, past tenses, imperative, future tense, reflexive verbs, pronouns, verbal modes indicative and subjunctive, prepositions and conjunctions.
At the end of this course students will also be given the opportunity to sit an external examination to receive the Goethe certificate corresponding to their current level.