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Cambridge IGCSE 0525 German 2025-Xx
Cambridge IGCSE 0525 German 2025-Xx
Syllabus overview
Assessment overview
All candidates take four papers. Candidates will be eligible for grades A* to G.
and: and:
Check the timetable at www.cambridgeinternational.org/timetables for the test date window for Paper 3.
Assessment objectives
The assessment objectives (AOs) are:
AO1 Listening
L1: understand the main points and key information in simple everyday material
L2: understand clear speech on a range of familiar topics
L3: understand the description of events and expression of ideas, opinions and attitudes in simple texts
L4: identify and select relevant information in predictable texts
AO2 Reading
R1: understand the main points and key information in simple everyday material
R2: understand authentic factual texts on a range of familiar topics
R3: understand the description of events and expression of ideas, opinions and attitudes in simple texts
R4: identify and select relevant information in predictable texts
AO3 Speaking
S1: communicate clearly and effectively in a range of predictable everyday situations
S2: engage in conversations on familiar topics, expressing opinions and feelings
S3: use a range of structures and vocabulary with reasonable accuracy
S4: demonstrate some ability to maintain interaction
S5: show some control of pronunciation and intonation
AO4 Writing
W1: communicate simple factual information clearly for everyday purposes
W2: .write simple phrases and sentences on a familiar topic
W3: write simple connected texts describing events, experiences, opinions and hopes and ambitions
W4: use a range of simple vocabulary and language structures reasonably accurately
AO1 Listening 25
AO2 Reading 25
AO3 Speaking 25
AO4 Writing 25
Total 100
3 Subject content
This syllabus gives you the flexibility to design a course that will interest, challenge and engage your learners.
Where appropriate you are responsible for selecting resources and examples to support your learners’
study. These should be appropriate for the learners’ age, cultural background and learning context as well as
complying with your school policies and local legal requirements.
Skills
The skills covered in the syllabus are outlined below.
Listening
• Understand short recordings dealing with everyday needs (e.g. simple transactions in shops, simple
directions or instructions).
• Understand factual information and ideas from a range of sources (e.g. announcements, phone
messages, news items, interviews, dialogues) on familiar topics.
• Understand descriptions of events, opinions, emotions, hopes and ambitions in simple texts (e.g. in radio
broadcasts, interviews, dialogues).
• Identify main points, specific information and details on everyday topics (e.g. personal and family
information, shopping, local area, employment, school, leisure activities).
• Identify main points, themes, opinions, ideas, emotions and attitudes in predictable texts (e.g. news
reports, conversations, interviews, simple monologues).
• Deduce the meaning of occasional unknown words and expressions from the context.
Reading
• Understand short, simple texts (e.g. signs and notices in public places, such as streets, restaurants and
bus/railway stations and airports).
• Understand authentic texts on familiar topics and situations (e.g. newspaper/magazine articles, email
messages, blogs and letters).
• Understand descriptions of events, opinions, emotions, hopes and ambitions in simple texts (e.g. in
articles, interviews or personal messages).
• Identify main points, specific information and details in predictable texts (e.g. advertisements, brochures,
menus, timetables, instructions, messages).
• Identify main points, themes, opinions, ideas, emotions and attitudes in predictable texts (e.g.
newspaper/magazine articles, simple plots of films or books).
• Deduce the meaning of occasional unknown words and expressions from the context.
Speaking
• Participate in short social exchanges (e.g. greet people, make and respond to invitations, apologies) and
communicate on familiar topics to meet simple needs (e.g. order food and drink, simple transactions in
shops, use public transport, ask and give directions, request information).
• Participate in unprepared conversations on familiar topics of personal interest or relevant to everyday life
(e.g. family, friends, home environment, hobbies and interests, education, work, travel).
• Describe past events and experiences, hopes and ambitions and give brief reasons for opinions and
plans.
• Communicate with reasonable accuracy, using a range of structures, tenses and vocabulary relevant to
the given situation.
• Use simple connectors (e.g. and, but, because, then) to link a series of shorter discrete elements into a
connected sequence of points.
• Use appropriate strategies to maintain interaction.
• Use features of pronunciation and intonation to convey meaning and attitude.
Writing
Topic areas
Candidates will be required to show knowledge and understanding of the broad topic areas listed below.
These provide contexts for the acquisition of vocabulary and the study of grammar and structures. Through the
study of these broad topic areas, candidates gain insight into the cultures of countries and communities where
German is spoken.
The sub-topics listed are provided as examples of what teachers may choose to focus on. They are examples
only and are not intended to be prescriptive or exhaustive.
A Everyday activities • Time expressions (e.g. telling the time, days, days of the
week, months, seasons)
• Food and drink (e.g. meals, fruit and vegetables, meat,
fish and seafood, snacks, drinks, cutlery and utensils)
• The human body and health (e.g. parts of the body,
health and illness)
• Travel and transport
C The world around us • People and places (e.g. continents, countries and
nationalities, compass points)
• The natural world, the environment, the climate and the
weather
• Communications and technology (e.g. the digital world,
documents and texts)
• The built environment (e.g. buildings and services, urban
areas, shopping)
• Measurements (e.g. size, shape)
• Materials