5. November - Guy Fawkes' Day

Happy Guy Fawkes' Day, everyone!

We celebrated this British holiday by not mentioning it or doing anything even remotely related to it. Instead, we focused on German things. Yay!

Our class opened up with another listening comprehension exercise (seeing a pattern?), upon which time I dropped the news that, in two weeks, we shall be having a quiz over our Hörverständnisse to date. This will include Wortschätze from the following:

• Juli - Ein Gruß
• Nena - 99 Luftballoons
• Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt

The primary lesson today was over telling time. We covered the following:

• Everyday 12-hour time telling using the format #Uhr# (e.g. 11Uhr22 or 11.22) 
• The use of 'quarter of' (viertel vor) and 'quarter after' (viertel nach)
• The use of 'half until' (halb vor) and 'half after' (halb nach)
• 24-hour time. AM being 0-12, PM being 13-23.

There shall be a short quiz over how to tell time next week as well.

This was accompanied by the classic game, "Herr/Frau Fuchs," otherwise known as "Mister Fox," wherein Hr/Frau Fuchs stands at one end of the field with the other children to his back, and the children ask "Hr. Fuchs, Hr. Fuchs, wie steht die Uhr?" He replies with a number (e.g. 10 Uhr!) and they take that many steps forward. When he replies, "Mahlzeit!" he turns around and chases the others until someone is caught and becomes the new Herr/Frau Fuchs. (It's pronounced "Foox")

Next we studied school vocabulary, namely school supplies (p. 40 in the textbook) and school subjects (p. 35). We then played the most surreal game of charades ever, having to pretend to be pens, pencils, pencil sharpeners, notebooks...


And now for the grand finale.

Homework:

• Page 46, 1-3 (Arbeitsbuch)
• Study for the Time Quiz (especially quarter before/after, 24-hour time)