Grüße an jeden,
Today was a very special day, for on this day we got to go to German School!
Class began with the kids' presentation of their Speisekarte, which I must say were excellently done. Their were a good deal of creative restaurant names in there, and I could only wish that German food were actually as cheap as they made it out to be.
Going along with this, I quickly ran over the different kinds of restaurants found in Germany, includingGasthäuser/Gaststuben, Cafés, Kneipen. This lead to an introduction of the idea of Gemütlichkeit, the emphasis on "coziness" found in Gasthäuser, e.g. dark lighting, lots of wood furnishing, pastoral scenes and paraphernalia on the walls, dinners that last for hours where you sit around just for the sake of relaxing and taking in the atmosphere.
A new game was tried today as well, which I have tentatively named Konjugieren-Springen-Werfen-Chaos-Spiel (or "The hop-scotch throwy thing"). Basically, the kids drew a card with a subject (e.g. ich, du...) and a conjugated regular verb. They had to say the subject and verb out loud, then jump onto the hopscotch course (made of verb endings: e, t, st, en) and end up on the right ending for that verb conjugation, then throw a tennis ball into a bucket. IF all of that was done successfully, their team gained a point. We had teams Apfelsaft and Orangensaft.
The primary topic of learning today was family vocabulary, as found on page 19 of the Kursbuch. This lead also into an introduction of various personal adjectives: klein, groß, klug, doof, dumm, nett, schön, hübsch, ärgerlich, sympatisch (some of those were requested on the spot as opposed to being in my original list. I will let you guess which ones).
This was followed up with the first of many possessive adjectives we will be learning this year: mein/meine, dein/deine.
A little extra knowledge was gained today when I noticed that the kids weren't always understanding what I meant when trying to get them to stop talking. Thus we were introduced to the terms "Halt den Maul/den Mund," "halt die Klappe." I mentioned these as being ways of telling someone to be quiet to varying degrees of politeness, the least polite one being "halt die Klappe." I'd like to mention at this point that these phrases were introduced to me as being mostly acceptable for public usage. If this is a mistaken understanding and these phrases are ruder than I knew, please do feel free to correct me as I would not want to teach something inappropriate by mistake!
Class wrapped up with a rousing reprise of "Hast du mein Obst?" outside.
The homework for this week:
Stammbäume
-Make your own family tree using the vocabulary found on page 19.
-Include the names of the family members, their relation to you (auf Deutsch, e.g. "meine Mutter, mein Vater...)
-Include pictures. These may be hand-drawn, photographs, or even pictures of celebrities/cartoons/fictional characters from magazines or online...
Bonus (+5 on the first quiz)
-Write 5 sentences describing different family members. Use the verb "sein" and the adjectives learned today.
-Mit Vergnügen
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