Today we did something different. Firstly, we opened with a Meine Woche from a student, and we will do so for a few more students next week as well.
Then, since it seems we need some help with our reading comprehension, we did a challenge. Instead of simply listening to a song and seeing what we could glean from it, I gave them the lyrics beforehand in entirety, this being to the song "Familie Bis ins Mark" from the german dub of My Little Pony. Each student was assigned a stanza to translate.
First, I gave them some translation strategies, such as:
- Underline and mark all the nouns (always capitalized) to look up more easily
- Locate all the verbs, figure out their infinitive, and look those up.
- Figure out the tense of the sentence to help with its meaning (is there a haben, sein, or werden in the front? etc).
This ending up taking quite a while and doubled as a lesson on how to use a dictionary, which apparently was a new skill to learn.
Afterward, we discussed our findings and listened to the actual song.
The rest of our time we ended our previous unit on the past tense, and our lesson on Iron Age warfare, writing essay/stories over the adventures of either an ancient germanic warrior or a roman legionnaire. Those who did not finish this must do so before next weekend.
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