About

What this site is Link to heading

EFL is a personal didactic curriculum for English at a comprehensive school (“Gesamtschule”). It covers two parallel tracks — G+M (grundlegend + mittleres Niveau, Grades 5 to 10) and E (erweitertes Niveau, Grade 5 through school-leaving examination (“Abitur”) in Grade 13) — with twelve teaching Units per year group, one class test (“Klassenarbeit”) or Abitur-style task per Unit, and a slide deck for every classroom session. The course is oriented on a regional curriculum framework; see References for the specific framework documents (alignment is content-level, not a 1:1 match).

Why this format Link to heading

A Quarto-based site lets one source produce both an HTML article (for home study, parent read-along, asynchronous catch-up) and a Reveal.js slide deck (for classroom delivery), backed by per-Unit PDF worksheets and exam tasks. curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment is explicit on every Unit, not buried in a separate document.

The author Link to heading

S. Le Boulanger teaches English at a comprehensive school (“Gesamtschule”). The materials grew out of a decade of mixed-Niveau classrooms, where the same theme — food, fairness, digital lives, Shakespeare — had to land for a Hauptschul-bound student in Grade 9 G and a advanced course (“Leistungsfach”) student in Grade 12 in the same week.

Pedagogical stance Link to heading

  • CLIL by default. English is the working language of every Unit, including teacher notes and rubrics. German appears only in Bildungsplan citations, exam terminology, and mediation (“Mediation”) tasks.
  • Five steps, every time. Activate → Input → Practise → Produce → Reflect on regular Units; Task → Model → Strategy → Attempt → Feedback on exam-prep Units. Predictability frees the teacher to improvise on content.
  • Age-appropriate voice. Klasse 5 is concrete, character-driven, short. Klasse 13 is analytical, exam-grade, discourse-level. Characters recur within a year group (“Klassenstufe”).
  • Exams in regional format only. Class test (“Klassenarbeit”) Grades 5–10 and Abitur Grades 11–13, oriented on the framework documents in References. No invented formats, no commercial mock-test material.

Licence Link to heading

  • Code and site scaffolding: MIT.
  • Teaching content (text, exercises, exams): CC-BY 4.0.
  • See Acknowledgements for sources and inspirations and Impressum for legal details.