Saturday played host to an outbreak of that uncontrollable contagion known as "Witzensucht," called in English, "The Giggles." No matter what was going on, what the topic at hand was, or what we were in fact doing, sporadic bursts of uncontrollable, even involuntary laughter seemed to follow at our heels.
Everything from, "how do you conjugate sollen?" to "turn in your homework" was met with laughter.
As one child put it, "It's hot dog day!" I guess it was just hot dog day.
The day opened with a listening comprehension exercise with the song "Sie erfasst mein Herz" by Elis.
From there, we went over the different forms of negation and similar words used in conversation (nicht, nichts, nie, niemals, niemand, doch)
Later, we took back up the topic of modal verbs and added sollen (should) to our repertoire that so far consists of können, dürfen, möchten, wollen.
After the break, we ended the day with a verbal exercise of the most cerebral sort, one designed to challenge the childrens' language skills as well as their abstract thinking. I am, of course, referring to 20 Questions. A student was given a word, and then they stood up in front while the rest of the class asked them yes or no questions (up to 20) until the word was found out. For this, we combined with Fr. Nölke's 7th grade class to give us a better-sized crowd. And there was much rejoicing.
For next week, there will be a vocabulary quiz over the words we have used so far in listening comprehension exercises this semester. I would highly recommend flash cards be used in studying. The songs are "Nichts bring mich runter" by Ich & Ich, "Küssen Verboten" and "Gabi & Klaus" by Die Prinzen, and "Sie erfasst mein Herz" by Elis.
The list is as follows (with articles):
Der Schmerz – pain
Die Liebe – love
Die Stimme - voice
Das Meer - sea
Das Herz - heart
Der Kreis- circle
Der Sand – sand
Gemein- mean
Einsam- lonely
Zu viel- too much
Wo- where
Weiter- further
Nichts - Nothing
Die Zeit - Time
Das Licht - Light
Nicht - Not/None
Mehr - More
Leise - Quiet
Wieder - Again
Doch - However/On the Contrary
Mein - My/Mine
Nie - Never
Schön - Pretty
Das Geschenk - Present
and the verbs
Hören - hear
Sehen - see
Glauben - believe
Küssen- kiss
Folgen – follow
Vergessen - forget
Sagen- say
Verstehen - understand
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