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Why Choose Online German Classes?

Pathway-aligned tutors - we match the tutor to your child's path: DELE / DELF / Goethe / HSK / TORFL for international certifications, US Common Core, CBSE / ICSE / IGCSE / A-level for school exams, or pure conversational fluency.

Live, interactive 1:1 or small-group classes - listening, speaking, reading and writing in every session.

Native or near-native instructors with formal teaching qualifications (DELE / DELF / Goethe certified where applicable).

Customised practice worksheets graded class by class with detailed feedback.

Periodic class tests aligned to the chosen exam (DELE / IGCSE / A-level / Board) pattern.

2-4 full-length proctored mock exams before the actual exam.

Cultural immersion - films, music, news, literature appropriate to the level.

Flexible scheduling across time zones - USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore, UAE, GCC, India.

Free demo class so you can meet the tutor before you commit.

Recorded sessions available for missed classes (group format) so no concept is left behind.

Overview

WinQuest Online German - live 1:1 or small-group classes mapped to the major German syllabuses your child may follow: the international Goethe-Zertifikat / CEFR ladder (A1 -> C2, awarded by the Goethe-Institut), US Common Core / ACTFL World Languages standards (Grade 7-12), CBSE and ICSE German as a third / foreign language (Grade 7-12), Cambridge IGCSE German Foreign Language 0525 (Year 10-11) and Cambridge AS / A-level German 9717 (Year 12-13). Tell us which path your child follows and the tutor adapts the lesson plan from day one.

What You'll Learn

Live interactive sessions
1st one-on-one session
Comprehensive curriculum
No long-term commitment
Personalized learning plan

International - Goethe / CEFR

Age 6+ 40-80 hrs / level

Greetings & Identity

Guten Tag / Tschuss / Auf Wiedersehen, presentation phrases - we practise introducing yourself (Ich heisse, ich bin X Jahre alt, ich komme aus Indien).
Personal pronouns and the verb sein - ich bin, du bist, er / sie / es ist, wir sind, ihr seid, sie / Sie sind. Use sein for identity, nationality, profession.
The German alphabet (26 letters + 3 umlauts a / o / u and the eszett s), spelling words aloud (buchstabieren) and numbers 0 to 100.

Daily Life Vocabulary

Family (Mutter, Vater, Bruder, Schwester, Grossvater, Grossmutter, Onkel, Tante, Cousin, Cousine), colours (rot, blau, grun, gelb, schwarz, weiss), days and months.
Foods (Brot, Kase, Apfel, Brotchen), drinks (Wasser, Milch, Kaffee, Saft), ordering at a cafe (ich mochte... bitte), asking the price with was kostet das.
Hobbies (Musik, Sport, Lesen, Malen) and free-time vocabulary; expressing likes with "ich mag" + noun and "ich + verb + gern" (ich lese gern, ich spiele gern Fussball).

Foundation Grammar

Present indicative of regular verbs - the standard endings (-e, -st, -t, -en, -t, -en) applied to spielen, lernen, wohnen. Stem-changing verbs (fahren, lesen, geben).
The three genders (der, die, das) and noun number; the indefinite article (ein, eine) and negation with kein / keine.
Common irregular verbs - sein (to be), haben (to have), werden (to become), the modal verbs konnen, mussen, wollen, mochten - and their position in the sentence.

Goethe-Zertifikat A1 Exam Skills (Goethe-Institut)

Lesen - 3 short tasks (25 min): reading short signs, ads, emails; matching, multiple-choice and true / false.
Horen - 3 short tasks (20 min): listening to short conversations, announcements, weather reports at a slow, clear pace.
Schreiben - 2 short tasks (20 min); filling a form + writing a short personal message (30-40 words). Sprechen - 3 tasks (15 min) including a short interview, conversation about everyday topics and asking / answering questions.

Wider Everyday Topics

Travel and transport - asking and giving directions (rechts, links, geradeaus), booking a hotel (ich mochte ein Zimmer reservieren), buying a train ticket, navigating Frankfurt or Berlin airport.
Daily routines (ich stehe um 7 Uhr auf, ich fruhstucke um 8, ich gehe zur Schule) using separable verbs (aufstehen, ankommen, einkaufen).
Health and body parts (Kopf, Auge, Mund, Arm, Bein), visiting the doctor (ich habe Kopfschmerzen, ich habe Fieber), expressing feelings (ich bin mude, glucklich, traurig).

Past & Future Tenses

Perfekt (ich habe gespielt, ich bin gegangen) for completed past actions in spoken German; using haben vs sein as auxiliary.
Prateritum (ich spielte, ich ging) for written narrative German; conjugation of regular and key irregular verbs (war, hatte, ging, kam, sah).
Futur with werden (ich werde studieren) and present-with-future-meaning (ich gehe morgen ins Kino) - when to use each.

Practical German in Use

Comparatives (klein / kleiner / am kleinsten; gross / grosser / am grossten) and superlatives; irregulars (gut / besser / am besten, viel / mehr / am meisten).
Accusative case (den, die, das, die) for direct objects and dative case (dem, der, dem, den) for indirect objects. Articles, pronouns and adjective endings.
Reflexive verbs (sich waschen, sich anziehen, sich freuen, sich treffen) and reflexive pronouns in accusative (mich, dich, sich) and dative (mir, dir, sich).

Goethe-Zertifikat A2 Exam Skills (Goethe-Institut)

Lesen - 4 tasks (30 min): short ads, narratives, programmes, formal and informal messages.
Horen - 4 tasks (30 min) at slow-to-natural pace; conversations, public announcements, weather reports, short radio broadcasts.
Schreiben - 2 short tasks totalling 30 + 20 words. Sprechen - 3 tasks (15 min) including 6 questions about personal info + a planned activity + presenting a topic.

Opinions & Emotional Contexts

Talking about plans, ambitions and dreams (ich will Architekt werden, ich hoffe in Berlin zu studieren, ich mochte durch Europa reisen).
Giving opinions (meiner Meinung nach, ich glaube, ich denke, ich finde, ich bin uberzeugt), agreeing (das stimmt, ich bin einverstanden) and disagreeing (das stimmt nicht, ich bin nicht einverstanden).
Expressing complex feelings - Freude (joy), Trauer (sadness), Uberraschung (surprise), Wut (anger), Enttauschung (disappointment) with appropriate verbs and idioms.

Konjunktiv II Introduction

Konjunktiv II forms (ich wurde, ich konnte, ich hatte, ich ware) and the wurde + infinitive construction for polite requests and hypotheticals.
Imperative - du, ihr and Sie forms (geh, geht, gehen Sie; iss, esst, essen Sie) and negative imperative.
Subordinating conjunctions (weil, dass, wenn, obwohl, als, nachdem) and the verb-final word order they trigger; reading sentences with multiple verbs at the end.

Connectors & Cohesion

Aber (but), allerdings (however), trotzdem (despite that), deshalb (therefore), ausserdem (besides), zwar... aber (admittedly... but) - linking ideas in writing.
Indirect speech (indirekte Rede) - using Konjunktiv I (er sagt, er sei mude) for reported speech in formal / journalistic German.
Conditional sentences - real (wenn ich Zeit habe, gehe ich ins Kino), hypothetical (wenn ich Zeit hatte, wurde ich ins Kino gehen).

Goethe-Zertifikat B1 Exam Skills (Goethe-Institut)

Lesen - 5 tasks (65 min): short and medium-length texts on personal life, articles, ads, blogs.
Horen - 4 tasks (40 min): conversations, public announcements, radio broadcasts, lectures - identifying main idea, detail and speaker intent.
Schreiben - 3 tasks (60 min) including emails (80 + 80 words) and a posted message (80 words). Sprechen - 3 tasks (15 min) including paired tasks (planning + topic + reaction).

Abstract & Argumentative Topics

Society (Migration, Bildungssystem, Demografischer Wandel), environment (Klimawandel, Energiewende, Mulltrennung), technology (Digitalisierung, kunstliche Intelligenz) - reading and group discussion.
Argumentation - structuring a balanced viewpoint with evidence (einerseits, andererseits), introducing examples (zum Beispiel, insbesondere) and concluding (zusammenfassend, schliesslich).
Cultural awareness across the German-speaking world - Germany (Bundeslander, Berlin, Bayern), Austria (Wien, Salzburg) and Switzerland (Zurich, Bern; Schweizerdeutsch).

Advanced Grammar

Passiv (das Buch wird gelesen) and Konjunktiv I for indirect speech (er sagte, er sei mude) - both register markers of formal / journalistic German.
Genitive case (des, der, des, der) for possession and after certain prepositions (wegen, trotz, wahrend, statt); replacing genitive with von + dative in spoken German.
Adjective endings in all cases - the full table of strong, weak and mixed declensions after der / dieser, ein / kein and the bare noun.

Idiomatic & Colloquial German

Common phrases and idioms - die Daumen drucken (to wish luck), den Nagel auf den Kopf treffen (to hit the nail on the head), Tomaten auf den Augen haben (to be oblivious).
Register - Standarddeutsch (Hochdeutsch) vs Umgangssprache (colloquial) vs regional dialects (Bayerisch, Berlinerisch, Sachsisch).
Common false friends (bekommen means "receive", not "become"; das Gift means "poison", not "gift"; aktuell means "current", not "actual").

Goethe-Zertifikat B2 Exam Skills (Goethe-Institut)

Lesen - 5 tasks (65 min): articles, opinion pieces, literary excerpts, with multiple-choice, matching and inference questions.
Horen - 4 tasks (40 min): radio interviews, public announcements, lectures and short academic talks - identifying speaker intent, attitude and main argument.
Schreiben - 2 tasks (75 min) including an opinion essay (150 words) and a formal email. Sprechen - 2 paired tasks (15 min): planning a joint activity and discussing a topic.

Complex & Demanding Texts

Newspaper editorials (FAZ, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit), essays by Thomas Mann, Hannah Arendt, Heinrich Boll; literary excerpts from Goethe, Schiller, Kafka, Hesse.
Specialised vocabulary across domains - economy (BIP, Inflation, Rezession), politics (Bundestag, Bundesrat, Demokratie), science (Forschung, Hypothese, Beweis) and art (Romantik, Bauhaus, Expressionismus).
Inference and reading between the lines - identifying tone (ironisch, sarkastisch, neutral), implicit attitudes and the author's underlying purpose.

Refined Grammar

All tenses and moods fluent in interaction - including the Konjunktiv I in long indirect-speech passages (typical of German journalism and academic writing).
Complex sentence structures with multiple subordinate clauses; participle constructions (das im Jahr 1990 gebaute Haus); fully nominalised academic style.
Modal particles (doch, ja, mal, halt, eben, wohl) - the small words that give German speech its tone; learning when each is appropriate.

Spoken Fluency at Speed

Sustained monologue (3-5 minutes) with a clear logical argument, supporting evidence, anticipation of counter-arguments and a strong conclusion.
Negotiation, debate and persuasion - vocabulary for proposing (ich schlage vor), conceding (ich gebe zu), refuting (ich bin nicht einverstanden, weil) and consensus (zusammenfassend).
Native-speaker speed listening - Deutsche Welle, Tagesschau (the evening news), films (Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Fatih Akin), podcasts with regional accents.

Goethe-Zertifikat C1 Exam Skills (Goethe-Institut)

Lesen - 4 tasks (70 min): journalistic articles, blog posts, opinion pieces, literary excerpts with high lexical density.
Horen - 2 tasks (40 min): a long broadcast / interview + 4 short academic / journalistic audio extracts.
Schreiben - 2 tasks (80 min): an opinion essay (250 words) + a formal email (80-100 words). Sprechen - 2 tasks (15 min): a 4-min talk on a chosen topic + a 5-min discussion.

Near-Native Comprehension

Understand virtually everything heard or read in German, including specialised terminology, dialects (Bayrisch, Schwabisch, Wiener Deutsch) and varieties from Switzerland.
Literary criticism, academic writing (Habilitation level), technical / legal German (contracts, scientific papers).
German-language films and theatre at native speed without subtitles (Brecht, Schiller, modern productions); live news bulletins and live debates.

Spontaneous Fluency & Precision

Express fine shades of meaning - irony (Subtilitat), sarcasm (beissende Ironie), humour (Humor), gravity (Ernst) with appropriate vocabulary and prosody.
Self-correct and refine on the fly; near-native pronunciation; consciously choose Hochdeutsch or a target regional accent (osterreichisch, schweizerisch).
Switch register fluidly between formal (juristisch-amtlich, akademisch) and colloquial (mit Umgangssprache und Slang) without effort.

Cultural & Literary Depth

Classical German - Goethe (Faust, Die Leiden des jungen Werther), Schiller (Wilhelm Tell, Don Carlos), the Romantik (Novalis, Eichendorff, Heine).
20th-century giants - Thomas Mann (Buddenbrooks, Der Zauberberg), Franz Kafka (Die Verwandlung, Der Process), Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha, Steppenwolf), Bertolt Brecht.
Contemporary writers (Gunter Grass, Herta Muller, Jenny Erpenbeck, Daniel Kehlmann) and current cultural debates (Erinnerungskultur, Multikulturalismus, Energiewende).

Goethe-Zertifikat C2 Exam Skills (Goethe-Institut)

Lesen - 4 tasks (80 min): high-density literary, journalistic and academic texts; nuanced inference, stylistic analysis.
Horen - 4 tasks (35 min): long academic / journalistic broadcasts; identifying nuance, speaker viewpoint and stylistic devices.
Schreiben - 2 tasks (80 min): a structured essay (350 words) + an informal text in a specific register. Sprechen - 2 tasks (15 min): a presentation + a discussion at near-native level.

USA - Common Core / ACTFL

Age 12+ 60 hrs / grade

Foundations

Greetings (Guten Morgen, Guten Tag, Guten Abend, Auf Wiedersehen, Tschuss), introductions (Ich heisse, ich bin X Jahre alt, ich komme aus) and classroom commands (Hor zu, Wiederhole, Heb die Hand).
Numbers 0 to 100, days of the week, months of the year, telling time on the hour and half hour, basic weather expressions (es ist sonnig, es ist kalt, es regnet, es schneit).
The German alphabet (26 letters + a, o, u, s), the special sounds (ch in ich vs ach, sch, sp, st), word stress and key pronunciation patterns - students practise reading aloud.

My World

Family members (Mutter, Vater, Bruder, Schwester, Grossvater, Onkel, Cousin), rooms of the house (Kuche, Schlafzimmer, Wohnzimmer, Badezimmer) and school subjects (Mathematik, Englisch, Geschichte, Naturwissenschaften).
Colours (rot, blau, grun, gelb, orange, lila), clothing (Hemd, Hose, Schuhe, Kleid, Jacke), basic food and drinks (Brot, Milch, Obst, Wasser).
Likes and dislikes - "Ich mag" + noun, "ich + verb + gern" (ich lese gern), "nicht so gern", "lieber" (rather). Hobbies and free-time vocabulary.

Grammar Starters

The 3 noun genders (der, die, das), definite vs indefinite articles, plural formation (das Buch -> die Bucher; der Mann -> die Manner).
Present tense regular verbs - the standard endings (-e, -st, -t, -en, -t, -en) applied to spielen, lernen, wohnen, machen.
Subject pronouns (ich, du, er, sie, es, wir, ihr, sie / Sie) and the formal Sie vs informal du distinction.

Daily Life

Daily routines (ich stehe um 7 Uhr auf, ich fruhstucke um 8, ich gehe zur Schule, ich esse zu Mittag um 12, ich gehe um 22 Uhr ins Bett) using separable verbs.
Sports (Fussball, Basketball, Tennis, Schwimmen), hobbies (Computerspiele spielen, Musik horen, Filme sehen) and music genres.
Shopping for clothes (Grosse, Farbe, Preis) and food (auf dem Markt, im Supermarkt), asking "Was kostet das?" and giving change in euros.

Travel & Culture

Geography of the German-speaking world - the DACH countries (Deutschland, Osterreich, Schweiz) plus Liechtenstein, Sudtirol, Luxemburg.
Travel vocabulary (Flughafen, Hotel, Reisepass, Ticket, Koffer), navigating an airport, checking into a hotel and asking for / giving directions.
German festivals - Oktoberfest, Weihnachten, Ostern, Karneval (Cologne and Mainz traditions); Austrian and Swiss festivals.

Grammar

Stem-changing verbs (e -> i: geben, nehmen, helfen; e -> ie: sehen, lesen; a -> a: fahren, schlafen). The 2nd / 3rd person present forms.
Accusative case (den, die, das, die) for direct objects after verbs and after the prepositions durch, fur, gegen, ohne, um.
Possessive determiners (mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer, ihr / Ihr) and their adjective endings agreeing with the noun possessed.

Past Tense Storytelling

Perfekt - the standard past tense in spoken German (ich habe gespielt, ich bin gegangen). Choosing haben vs sein as auxiliary.
Prateritum - the standard past tense in written narrative (ich spielte, ich ging). Conjugation of regular and key irregular verbs.
Time markers - gestern, letzte Woche, letztes Jahr, fruher - and how each cues the past tense in spoken or written register.

Travel & Restaurants

Booking a hotel (Ich mochte ein Doppelzimmer reservieren, fur 2 Nachte), ordering at a restaurant (als Vorspeise, als Hauptgang, als Nachtisch, zum Trinken).
Asking for directions (Entschuldigung, wo ist...?, wie komme ich zu...?) and giving directions (geradeaus, rechts abbiegen, links abbiegen, an der Ecke).
Currency and shopping (Euro, Cent, Schweizer Franken), reading receipts, asking about discounts (gibt es einen Rabatt?).

Grammar

Dative case (dem, der, dem, den) for indirect objects (er gibt mir das Buch) and after the prepositions aus, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu.
Two-way prepositions (in, an, auf, uber, unter, vor, hinter, neben, zwischen) - accusative for motion / direction, dative for location / state.
Reflexive verbs (sich waschen, sich anziehen, sich freuen) and reflexive pronouns in accusative (mich, dich, sich) and dative (mir, dir, sich).

Future & Konjunktiv II

Futur with werden (ich werde studieren) and present-with-future-meaning (ich gehe morgen ins Kino) - when each is used.
Konjunktiv II - wurde + infinitive (ich wurde gerne) and the synthetic forms (hatte, ware, konnte, mochte) for polite requests, hypothesis.
Time expressions and future planning (in der Zukunft, in funf Jahren, wenn ich gross bin) and using ich hoffe / ich wunsche.

Opinions & Debate

Expressing opinions (meiner Meinung nach, ich glaube, ich denke, ich finde), agreeing (das stimmt) and disagreeing (das stimmt nicht).
Talking about current events (die Nachrichten, die Zeitung, die sozialen Medien) and forming a balanced argument about youth-relevant topics.
Subordinating conjunctions (weil, dass, wenn, obwohl, als, nachdem) and the verb-final word order they trigger.

Culture & Literature

German literature at intermediate level - Erich Kastner's Emil und die Detektive, fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm.
Music - classical (Bach, Beethoven, Mozart - actually Austrian) and contemporary (Rammstein, Tokio Hotel, Cro); analysing lyrics.
Cinema - introduction to Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire), Werner Herzog and Fatih Akin (Head-On) - watching clips with German subtitles.

Konjunktiv & Passive Mastery

Konjunktiv I for indirect speech (er sagt, er sei mude) - the form characteristic of formal / journalistic German.
Konjunktiv II in all forms - polite requests, hypothesis, contrary-to-fact statements (wenn ich Zeit hatte, wurde ich kommen).
Passiv (das Buch wird gelesen) and stative passive (das Buch ist gelesen); use of "man" as an alternative to passive.

AP German Themes (College Board Course Framework)

Families and Communities - structure of family, customs, citizenship and identity, education and friendship across German-speaking cultures.
Personal and Public Identities; Beauty and Aesthetics; Science and Technology - 3 of the 6 College Board AP themes; vocabulary, source articles, model FRQ responses.
Contemporary Life; Global Challenges - the remaining 3 AP themes; environmental, economic and social challenges in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

AP Skills Build

Email reply task - 15-min response to a stimulus email, including a greeting, body addressing each question, follow-up question and formal sign-off (60+ words).
Persuasive essay structure - 40 min after analysing 3 sources (one print, one audio, one chart), with thesis, evidence from each source and conclusion (200+ words).
Conversation simulation (5 turns of 20s each) and cultural comparison presentation (4 min preparation + 2 min presentation comparing German and US perspectives).

AP German Language and Culture - 6 Units

Families in Different Societies - family structure across German-speaking cultures; Influence of Language and Culture on Identity - regional dialects, Austrian and Swiss German.
Influences of Beauty and Art - German painters (Durer, Caspar David Friedrich), architects (Bauhaus, Mies van der Rohe), musicians (Bach, Beethoven, Brahms).
Quality of Life factors - work, leisure, healthcare, education; Environmental, Political and Societal Challenges - migration, ecology (Energiewende), gender equality.

Final AP Exam Skills

Section I MCQ (95 min) - 30 print-only questions, 35 audio-only and audio + print combined; testing comprehension, inference and cultural awareness.
Section II FRQ (88 min) - email reply (15 min), persuasive essay analysing 3 sources (55 min), conversation simulation (5 turns x 20s), cultural comparison (4+2 min).
2-4 full-length proctored mock exams in the College Board format; targeting scores of 4 or 5 with detailed score-band feedback from the tutor.

Cultural Mastery

In-depth reading of contemporary German-speaking authors - Daniel Kehlmann (Die Vermessung der Welt), Jenny Erpenbeck, Bernhard Schlink (Der Vorleser).
Film analysis - Germany (Wenders, Petzold, Akin), Austria (Haneke), Switzerland (modern productions).
Cross-cultural comparison essays - identifying similarities and differences between the student's culture and a German-speaking culture, with concrete examples.

India - CBSE German

Age 12+ 50 hrs / grade

Structure

CBSE offers German as a 3rd / Foreign Language in Classes 6-12 under Code 020. The syllabus mirrors the Goethe-Institut A1 (Class 6-8) -> A2 (Class 9-10) -> B1 (Class 11-12) ladder.
Section A - Reading (20 marks): two unseen prose passages with vocabulary, comprehension and inference questions.
Section B - Writing (20 marks): paragraph + personal letter + translation between German and Hindi / English.

Grammar (Sections C, 20 marks)

Class 9-10: present tense, perfect tense, articles, accusative + dative cases, modal verbs, separable verbs, simple subordinating conjunctions.
Class 11-12: Konjunktiv II, passive voice, all four cases including genitive, full subordinating-conjunction range, indirect speech with Konjunktiv I.
Vocabulary range - approximately 2,500 active words by end of Class 12 (Goethe B1 equivalent).

Literature & Culture (Section D, 20 marks)

Short texts on Germany (Berlin, Bayern, Wiedervereinigung), Austria (Wien, Mozart) and Switzerland (Bundesrat, vier Sprachen).
Famous German-speaking personalities - Goethe, Beethoven, Einstein, Marx, Merkel, Boris Becker, Steffi Graf, Heidi Klum.
CBSE Sample Paper practice and 2-3 full-length proctored mocks before March board exam.

India - ICSE German

Age 12+ 50 hrs / grade

Class 9-10 ICSE (Code 14)

Composition - picture, narrative, descriptive (300-350 words by Class 10); formal and informal letter writing.
Comprehension - unseen prose passages with comprehension, vocabulary and inference questions.
Grammar - all tenses, four cases, modal verbs, separable verbs, subordinating conjunctions, Konjunktiv II introduction.

Class 11-12 ISC (Code 869)

Composition (450-550 words) - argumentative, discursive, descriptive; formal letter; article / report writing.
Comprehension - longer passages including literary prose; precis writing.
Grammar mastery - Konjunktiv I and II, full passive voice, all 4 cases including genitive, complex sentence structures.

Literature (ISC; 20 marks)

Prescribed German prose - one novel or collection of short stories (e.g., Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser).
Prescribed poetry - selected poems from a German anthology (Goethe, Schiller, Rilke, Brecht).
Reference-to-context questions; 2-3 full-length proctored mocks before February exam.

Cambridge IGCSE 0525

Age 14+ 60 hrs / year

IGCSE Topic Areas - all 5

Everyday activities - home life, school, food, health; Personal and social life - self, family, friends, free time, holidays.
The world around us - hometown, environment, weather, people; The world of work - jobs, careers, communication.
The international world - travel, tourism, cultural differences, current affairs, world issues.

Grammar Range

All major tenses (present, perfect, prateritum, futur), Konjunktiv II for polite forms, all 4 cases (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive).
Direct (mich, dich, ihn, sie, es, uns, euch, sie / Sie) and indirect (mir, dir, ihm, ihr, uns, euch, ihnen / Ihnen) object pronouns.
Subordinating conjunctions (weil, dass, wenn, obwohl, als, nachdem) and the verb-final word order they trigger.

IGCSE Skills Build

Paper 1 Listening - 6 questions (about 45 minutes; 25% of total) - announcements, conversations, monologues and longer interviews.
Paper 2 Reading - 7 questions (about 1 hour; 25% of total) - signs, advertisements, brochures, magazine articles, narratives, formal letters.
Paper 3 Speaking (about 10 minutes; 25%) and Paper 4 Writing (about 1 hour; 25%) - intensive prep and timed practice.

Paper 4 Writing - exam-day mastery

Q1 List task (8 marks) - producing 8 short items from a given prompt.
Q2 80-90 word task (16 marks) - structured response to a stimulus, addressing 4-5 bullet points.
Q3 130-140 word task (26 marks) - longer composition; A* targeting; accuracy + content + organisation.

Cambridge AS / A-level (9717)

Age 16+ 80 hrs / year

AS Paper 1 - Speaking (30 marks; 15 min)

Topic discussion (4-5 minutes) on a chosen topic - young people, healthy living, customs and traditions, family relationships.
General discussion on contemporary German-speaking world issues - DACH (Deutschland-Osterreich-Schweiz) cultural and political differences.
Pronunciation and intonation refinement - eliminating Indian-English interference, achieving native-like rhythm and stress.

AS Paper 2 - Reading & Writing (40 marks; 1 hr 45 min)

Comprehension of two texts (one journalistic, one literary) - multiple-choice, short-answer and inferential questions answered in German.
250-word essay in German on a given topic - structured argument with thesis, supporting evidence, counter-argument and conclusion.
Translation German-to-English (~120 words) - testing comprehension, lexical range and English-language style.

A2 Paper 3 + 4 (A-level only)

Paper 3 - Listening + 250-word essay + translation English-to-German (~140 words).
Paper 4 - Two extended essays in German (250-400 words each) on prescribed cultural topics from the Cambridge A-level list.
Topic A: a country / region (Germany after Wiedervereinigung, Austria, Switzerland); Topic B: a literary or cultural movement (Sturm und Drang, Romantik, Trummerliteratur).

A* Targeting

4 full Paper 3 and Paper 4 mocks under exam conditions - timing, planning and accuracy practice.
A* model answers from past papers and mark-scheme calibration.
May / October exam-session preparation including last-week revision, time management and exam-day routine.

Requirements

A laptop, desktop or tablet with stable internet
Headphones with a clear microphone for listening / speaking practice
A notebook for vocabulary, grammar and writing exercises
For exam-prep tracks: past papers from the relevant board (we share the practice pack)

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Each class session is 60 minutes long. Frequency is typically twice a week for beginners and three times a week for exam-prep tracks (IGCSE / A-level / DELE), based on the exam timeline and parent preference.

How is progress measured?

Tutors give written feedback on every assignment, run a short formative quiz every 4-6 classes, and a longer level / chapter test at the end of each unit. For exam-prep tracks we run 2-4 full-length proctored mocks before the actual exam. Parents receive a monthly progress report.

What is the class size?

For 1:1 sessions the class is just your child and the tutor. For group classes we cap each batch at 5-6 students per level so every learner gets individual speaking and feedback time.

Are the tutors qualified?

All our language tutors are native or near-native speakers with formal teaching qualifications. For DELE / DELF / Goethe / HSK they hold the relevant instructor certification, and each tutor is interviewed by our academic head before joining.

What if my child wants to switch path mid-way?

No problem. Tell us during a review and the tutor will re-map the lesson plan - many students start on a school path and add a DELE / DELF / Goethe certification track in parallel, or vice versa.

What are the requirements?

A laptop / desktop / tablet with stable internet, headphones with a clear microphone for listening and speaking practice, and a notebook for vocabulary and writing. For exam-prep tracks the tutor will share the official past papers and practice pack before the first class.