I've finally returned to teaching after 5 weeks off, this length break having been due to both the Christmas/New Year's holidays as well as a business trip to France that occupied far more time than I would have liked (but that's what happens when you get bought by a French company).
The report I received from the substitute, Hr. Bauer, was excellent, and I was simply overjoyed!
Today's lesson found us starting off with a listening-comprehension exercise, the song being "Nichts Bringt Mich Runter" by Ich&Ich. I highly recommend the group, by the way.
From there, we delved into a subject that will be repeated throughout the rest of the year: the accusative case and the corresponding declensions of definite articles, indefinite articles and the 1st-person pronoun (mich). This was followed by a rousing game of "Wer Hat Den Schlüssel?"
Today also saw another point of this year's Landeskunde theme over the DDR and Reunification: "Selbstidentifizierung der DDR gegenüber den Westen." The children were divided into two groups and given selections from a young adult book, Die Flaschenpost, about a pair of 12-year-olds from opposite sides of the Berlin Wall who end up being accidental penpals when one of them throws a message-in-a-bottle (Flaschenpost) into the Spree River, hoping it'd go off to faraway lands.
The two groups answered questions about the reading selections and summarized their selections for the other group. It went marginally well--I think the passages may have been too difficult, but it was worth a try. We will if the selections for next weekend go over better.
And now, the homework.
Hausaufgabe:
- DDR Brieffreunde
- Act as though you have a penpal in the old DDR. They can be named whatever you like. Write them a letter asking questions about what their life is like, anything you want to know about.
- Total of 10 sentences.
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