Cecilien-Gymnasium

Cecilien-Gymnasium

Düsseldorf

mit Montessori- und bilingualem Zweig

Der erste Blick:

Our Bilingual Option
German-English

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What does “bilingual” mean?

In the “bilingual option”, the students firstly learn English on a more intensive level (namely 6, rather than 4, hours per week). Two years later, they begin to learn other subjects such as geography, politics, and history in English as well. English is therefore treated not just as a normal subject, but, after intensive preparation, is also used as the language of instruction in other subjects. This begins with geography in class 7, followed by politics in class 8 and history in class 9.

The Bilingual Education

…unites all fields of study in the traditional German education with an intensive focus on the English countries and cultures. Thus it enables not only a solid general language mastery of English, but also provides students with field-specific terms in the English language.

Hours per week in secondary level 1

ENGLISH 4 h + 2 h
ENGLISH 4 h + 2 h
ENGLISH 3 h	GEOGRAPHY 2 h + 1 h
ENGLISH 3 h	GEOGRAPHY 2 h	POLITICS 2 h + 1 h
ENGLISH 3 h	GEOGRAPHY 2 h	HISTORY 2 h
ENGLISH 3 h	POLITICS 2 h	HISTORY 2 h

No Risks with Bilingual

We work with all of the same textbooks in our English classes as in the other classes. However, in the bilingual branch, we use special practice materials and readings in addition to standard class work.

As the class offerings remain the same as in the parallel classes, even in the later forms, no level is disadvantaged. The same class material and course offerings are available (a second foreign language in class 6 and “Differenzierungsbereich” in class 8).

In the upper level

In addition to a mandatory intensive English course, the upper level students enroll in an entry level course (currently history) in English. The students then also take a test in this subject in their exams (A level = Abiturprüfung) in English.
The students in the bilingual programme receive an additional certificate along with their Abitur certificate
which documents their bilingual education with the corresponding qualifications.

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