Saturday, April 14, 2012

Der Annatanz - 14.April

Guten Abend,

The rest of the school year is scheduled as follows:
21.4 - normal class period
28.4 - Aufsatztag (be present to write our final long-essay in class)
5.5 - Wiederholungstag (be present for the test review)
12.5 - Prüfungstag (test day)
19.5 - Final Day



Today started out like any other class day:
We began with a partner activity, wherein the students made argument dialogues about what to do when terribly, terribly bored on a weekend. This lead to such gems as "Basketball? Ich hasse Basketball! Das ist doof!" "Dein Gesicht is doof!" and the like.

This was followed up by a review of the possessive adjectives learned to date:
mein(e) - mine
dein(e) - yours

To which we have now added:
euer/eure - yours (plural)
ihr(e) - hers
sein(e) - his

We then played "Hast du mein Obst?" for the first time in quite a while to refresh our memory on possessive adjectives, and that's when the madness was born. One student's turn in the game (the goal of which being to make one's neighbor laugh) ended up being an unusually elaborate dance during which she sang the standard line of "Hast du mein Obst?" for a good 30 seconds at least. This caught on and quickly became a meme.

At the end of the day, after we did a reading comprehension exercise over a Deutsche Welle article (www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6441611,00.html) and shortly before doing Singprobe, we did a little parade.
With the two boys playing improvised drums (banging on notebooks and a basketball) and the girls dancing and singing, we performed the song and dance routine, now affectionately dubbed "Der Annatanz" up and down our section of the hallway for about a minute before running back inside.


And now, the homework:

Workbook
P. 83, Exercise 8
P. 85, Exercise 12

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