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.
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