My costume was the best of all today; I dressed as someone who forgot it was Halloween, and golly was it a convincing outfit!
The morning was spent using the previously-given handouts to fill out a review form over the vocabulary and verbs we've been using the past few weeks, for in 2 weeks from now we will have a quiz. And we had donuts, because donuts are superior to candy in every way.
Most of our time over the day was spent doing our scavenger hunt or "Schatzsuch" (treasure search, literally) wherein I gave the students a page of riddles, which they then had to translate and figure out in order to find all the various objects (toy animals) I hid all across the school. This is why the ladies who were laboring away to prepare the club's dinner tonight were asked by a bunch of teenagers if they'd seen a giraffe in the refrigerator.
The winning groups were the two groups of girls, who tied with 9 correct finds, so they won the right not to have to take the garbage out for the next two weeks; the boys came in second by default, so they won't have to take out the garbage the third week after that.
Finally we tied it all together by re-examining the Schatzsuch's answers (like "der Schaf ist unter dem Tisch) as a segue into the dative case, used for spatial location and indirect objects.
The homework for tonight:
Make a riddle about some object currently in the classroom.
Include at least 3 clues, speaking to what it looks like and where it is located.
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Essen Essen - 11.Okt. '14
Guten Abend,
Today we learned about food. To aid us in this lesson, there was food.
The day began like any other day; I brought in donuts, and we ate them, because life is too short *not* to eat donuts, as any sane person who likes donuts and is still alive would agree. After donuts were had, we started actually doing academic things.
First we did listening comprehension with "Millionär" from Die Prinzen; this song, as well as the group Die Prinzen in general, are something of a rite of passage. Every studier of German I have ever encountered in all levels of academia has been made to listen to Die Prinzen in general and this song in-particular at least once, and so who are we to argue with tradition?
I then gave a lesson on comparative gastronomy in Imperial Rome and Iron Age Germany using a "follow me and fill-in-the-blank" handout; this culminated in a contest to fill out the English for the word bank. That went quickly, so then we moved onto adding onto the regular verbs conjugation list, adding "ihr," and then we had a contest to complete the handout on modal verb wollen.
Lunch happened
There was an elaborate activity revolving around another modal verb, können planned, but everyone was rather worn out so instead we briefly played a game called "Bitte, Sven!" that's basically "Mother May I" but with people taking orders from a viking puppet.
And then we played basketball.
The homework:
Write a short (about 10 lines) dialogue about 2 Romans arguing where to go out to dinner. Each Roman should give reasons, and express preferences (what they want or don't want) regarding different kinds of food. Be ready to perform these next time.
Today we learned about food. To aid us in this lesson, there was food.
The day began like any other day; I brought in donuts, and we ate them, because life is too short *not* to eat donuts, as any sane person who likes donuts and is still alive would agree. After donuts were had, we started actually doing academic things.
First we did listening comprehension with "Millionär" from Die Prinzen; this song, as well as the group Die Prinzen in general, are something of a rite of passage. Every studier of German I have ever encountered in all levels of academia has been made to listen to Die Prinzen in general and this song in-particular at least once, and so who are we to argue with tradition?
I then gave a lesson on comparative gastronomy in Imperial Rome and Iron Age Germany using a "follow me and fill-in-the-blank" handout; this culminated in a contest to fill out the English for the word bank. That went quickly, so then we moved onto adding onto the regular verbs conjugation list, adding "ihr," and then we had a contest to complete the handout on modal verb wollen.
Lunch happened
There was an elaborate activity revolving around another modal verb, können planned, but everyone was rather worn out so instead we briefly played a game called "Bitte, Sven!" that's basically "Mother May I" but with people taking orders from a viking puppet.
And then we played basketball.
The homework:
Write a short (about 10 lines) dialogue about 2 Romans arguing where to go out to dinner. Each Roman should give reasons, and express preferences (what they want or don't want) regarding different kinds of food. Be ready to perform these next time.
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