Grade 11 English — Cultural entry, literary voice (Oberstufe) on EFL

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 1: British Cultural Anchors

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“The BBC was founded in 1922 as a private company and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1927. Its inform-educate-entertain mandate is the source of constant funding fights. By contrast with most national broadcasters, it is funded by a household licence fee. Accordingly, it is both unusual and politically vulnerable.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 10: A Classic Text (Leistungsfach focus)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“In 1.7, Macbeth approaches the murder as completion: if it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well / it were done quickly. In 2.1, he steps into the perceptual present: is this a dagger? In 5.5, the future collapses: tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 11: Public Speaking: Toward the Komm-Prüfung

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“I would argue that the future of work is hybrid claim is half-right. The available evidence suggests hybrid is real for white-collar sectors but frontline jobs — care, retail, manufacturing — have been substantially less affected. The honest stimulus is: the future of office work is hybrid by 2030.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 12: Klausur Prep: Exam Rehearsal

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“The Klausur is 90 BE. Comprehension is 24, Analysis 18, Composition 18, Mediation 30. The total is 4 hours including 20 min of breaks. The Inhalt / Sprache split is 50/50 in Basisfach and 40/60 in Leistungsfach.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 2: The American Dream

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“The 1776 line speaks of the pursuit of Happiness. The 1931 phrase, by contrast, speaks of outcomes — that life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone. The 2024 critique points out that intergenerational income mobility in the US is now lower than in most of comparable Western Europe.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 3: Post-Colonial Voices: An Introduction

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“Achebe’s 1958 opening lays claim, with the calm of a history book, to a village world. Adichie’s 2003 opening alludes to Achebe’s title from inside a domestic frame. Naipaul’s 1979 narrator distances himself with the line the world is what it is.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 4: Short Stories and Style

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“The hour before is the only one I remember. The kettle was on, whose whistle had not yet started; the cat was asleep, of whom I was jealous; the corridor in which my mother stood was lit by the standing lamp.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 5: Poetry from the Anthology

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“The poem is fourteen lines in two stanzas. Line-breaks fall before strong stresses. There are three half-rhymes — light / late, door / floor, gone / alone — at the close of the second stanza. The pronoun shifts from they to we in the final couplet.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 6: Media Literacy, Advanced

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“Long-form journalism is mostly framing and verbs. Said is neutral; claimed signals doubt; insisted signals stubbornness. The reader who counts the attribution verbs already knows half the writer’s argument.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 7: Mediation as a Skill

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“Die Mietpreisbremse wurde 2015 eingeführt. Befürworter sagen, dass die Mieten weniger schnell steigen. Kritikerinnen entgegnen, dass die Bremse Investitionen bremst. Die Bundesregierung hat im Mai 2027 die Verlängerung um sechs Jahre beschlossen.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 8: Opinion Essay Writing

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“The 300-word op-ed forces the writer to choose a single best sentence. The 700-word column permits one well-developed counter, but only one. The 1,400-word essay can support a fully-articulated counter, a partial concession, and a more subtle conclusion. Length is not merely cosmetic.”

Klausur (assessment) — Unit 9: A Modern Novel (Basisfach focus)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Track E · Klasse 11 · Niveau E · 4 Stunden (incl. breaks) · 90 BE

Klausur (assessment) — Niveau E (full paper, 90 BE)

Time. 4 hours including 20 minutes of breaks (220 active minutes). Total. 90 BE.
Inhalt / Sprache split. Basisfach (basic course): 50/50. Leistungsfach (advanced course): 40/60.

Part A — Comprehension (~24 BE) Link to heading

Listen twice.

“By chapter four, Klara has been established as a narrator whose limitation is also her reliability. Her reports are literal-minded and quietly devastating. The deceptive plainness — the Sun would always come into the store, no matter the weather — is the novel’s signature register.”

Schedule — Grade 11 · Track E

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The twelve Units of Grade 11 (E) across the school year. Each Unit covers roughly three teaching weeks.

Unit	Title	Skills focus	Exam type
1	British Cultural Anchors	reading, writing, intercultural	Klausur (assessment)
2	The American Dream	reading, writing, intercultural	Klausur (assessment)
3	Post-Colonial Voices: An Introduction	reading, writing, intercultural	Klausur (assessment)
4	Short Stories and Style	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
5	Poetry from the Anthology	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
6	Media Literacy, Advanced	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
7	Mediation as a Skill	mediation, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
8	Opinion Essay Writing	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
9	A Modern Novel (Basisfach focus)	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
10	A Classic Text (Leistungsfach focus)	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
11	Public Speaking: Toward the Komm-Prüfung	speaking, listening, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)
12	Klausur Prep: Exam Rehearsal	reading, writing, language_awareness	Klausur (assessment)

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Unit 1 — British Cultural Anchors

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Template: Activate → Input → Practise → Produce → Reflect.
Niveau: E. Klausur (assessment) at Niveau E (90 BE, Comprehension + Analysis + Composition + Mediation).
Course tagging: basic course (Basisfach, E-BF) and advanced course (Leistungsfach, E-LF) — Units in Klasse 11–13 carry both where applicable; some Units are tagged BF or LF specifically.

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read a short cultural-history essay on a British anchor (the welfare state, the BBC, or the National Trust) and identify the writer’s argumentative move.
I can use formal academic discourse markers (by contrast, accordingly, in this regard, more specifically).
I can write a 250-word cultural-essay paragraph that goes past tourist-image cliché.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.2 / 3.5.2 Interkulturelle kommunikative Kompetenz
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 10 — A Classic Text (Leistungsfach focus)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read three soliloquies from Shakespeare’s Macbeth (LF set text) and write a 450-word literary essay with a complex thesis.
I can engage Early Modern English vocabulary and rhythm with confidence.
I can hold the Leistungsfach (advanced course) register: complex argument, integrated close reading, sustained voice.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 11 — Public Speaking: Toward the Komm-Prüfung

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can deliver a 4-minute monologue on a stimulus and respond to a 4-minute follow-up dialogue (Kommunikationsprüfung-style).
I can use academic-spoken register without sounding stilted.
I can rebut and concede with specifics in real time.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.1 / 3.5.3.1 Hör-/Hörsehverstehen
3.4.3.3 / 3.5.3.3 Sprechen – an Gesprächen teilnehmen
3.4.3.4 / 3.5.3.4 Sprechen – zusammenhängendes monologisches Sprechen

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 12 — Klausur Prep: Exam Rehearsal

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can complete a 90-BE Klausur (assessment) covering Comprehension + Analysis + Composition + Mediation under timed conditions.
I can manage time across the four parts and produce a sustained answer in each.
I can use Inhalt / Sprache awareness — knowing which parts are weighted to content and which to language.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.3.6 / 3.5.3.6 Sprachmittlung
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 2 — The American Dream

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read short extracts from American Dream sources (Declaration of Independence, James Truslow Adams 1931, contemporary critique) and trace one continuity and one rupture.
I can use sentence-level emphasis (cleft + inversion) for argumentative writing.
I can write a 280-word essay paragraph that holds two readings of the Dream in tension.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.2 / 3.5.2 Interkulturelle kommunikative Kompetenz
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 3 — Post-Colonial Voices: An Introduction

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read a short post-colonial extract (Achebe, Adichie, or Naipaul) and identify the writer’s stance toward the imperial archive.
I can use voice-marking phrases (the speaker recalls, the narrator distances herself from, the text positions the reader).
I can write a 280-word literary essay that engages a post-colonial source on its own terms.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.2 / 3.5.2 Interkulturelle kommunikative Kompetenz
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 4 — Short Stories and Style

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read a contemporary short story and identify three stylistic moves (image cluster, sentence rhythm, narrator distance).
I can use a wider relative-clause toolkit (whose, of whom, in which) accurately.
I can write a 300-word stylistic-analysis essay.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.3.8 / 3.5.3.8 Verfügen über sprachliche Mittel – Grammatik
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 5 — Poetry from the Anthology

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read a short poem and identify form, voice, and one figurative move.
I can use vocabulary of poetic analysis (line break, enjambment, stanza, image, persona, meter, half-rhyme).
I can write a 280-word poetic-analysis essay.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 6 — Media Literacy, Advanced

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read a long-form journalistic piece and identify the writer’s framing, sourcing pattern, and one disclosed limitation.
I can use academic critique vocabulary (frame, framing effect, sourcing, attribution, anonymisation, conflict of interest).
I can write a 300-word media-criticism essay.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 7 — Mediation as a Skill

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can mediate a 350-word German feature into 12 English sentences for a named addressee.
I can preserve register, hedge structure, and modal nuance simultaneously.
I can use the full reporting-verb toolkit (12+ verbs) and explicit cultural notes where needed.

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.3.6 / 3.5.3.6 Sprachmittlung
3.4.3.7 / 3.5.3.7 Verfügen über sprachliche Mittel – Wortschatz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 8 — Opinion Essay Writing

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read three opinion pieces and identify their thesis-evidence-counter-conclusion structure.
I can use cohesion devices (lexical chain, anaphoric reference, conjunctive adverb) deliberately.
I can write a 350-word opinion essay with a five-paragraph structure (intro / 2 body / counter / conclusion).

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.4.1 / 3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.4.3.2 / 3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.4.3.5 / 3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.4.3.8 / 3.5.3.8 Verfügen über sprachliche Mittel – Grammatik
3.4.4 / 3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)

Unit 9 — A Modern Novel (Basisfach focus)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Learning objectives Link to heading

I can read four chapters of a modern novel (BF set text) and write a 350-word literary essay with a clear thesis.
I can integrate two short quotations into my own sentences without breaking syntax.
I can use a Basisfach (basic course) writing register: clear, well-organised, less ornate than Leistungsfach (advanced course).

curriculum framework (“Bildungsplan”) alignment Link to heading

3.5.1 Soziokulturelles Orientierungswissen / Themen
3.5.3.2 Leseverstehen
3.5.3.5 Schreiben
3.5.4 Text- und Medienkompetenz

(Sources: https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-LF / https://www.bildungsplaene-bw.de/,Lde/LS/BP2016BW/ALLG/GYM/E1/IK/11-12-BF)