Grüße an alle!
As promised and forewarned, Saturday's class opened with a quiz over the vocabulary we've accumulated from listening comprehension exercises (the songs) so far this year. It went rather well, as it was apparent that most everyone had studied.
We then reviewed the conjugation guidelines for regular verbs, as well as haben and sein, and jumped into a brand new unit that will be following us for the rest of the year: happy-fun-delicious-delightful modal verbs!
Beginning with the informal semi-modal verb möchten and introducing dürfen, we went over the basic use of modal verbs including the proper structuring of a compound verb phrase. This lead into what is easily one of the sillier games in our repertoire, "Lehrer Darf Ich?" a variation of the classic "Mother May I?" In essence, commands were given, then confirmed by saying the title phrase, and silliness ensued. That is probably the first time I've ever seen someone attempt to follow the commands "Sleep," "run," "sing" and "fly" simultaneously.
Finishing off the day after lunch in the time we had left before Singprobe, we discussed thankfulness and brainstormed about the things for which we are thankful. We then made posters with the phrase, "Ich bin dankbar für..." followed by drawings of what we're thankful for paired with the words for them, e.g. "meinen Hund" followed by a picture of a dog.
And now, the homework, to be turned in on 1. December:
P. 47, Exercises 5,6
P.50, Exercises 2,3
Finish the, "Ich bin dankbar für..." poster if not completed in class
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
10.November - St Martins Tag
Grüß an euch alle!
As you may have noticed, I was not present last week. While there was homework, if your child was not present in class and as such did not get the assignment, there will be no penalty. Those who did the homework will be given a 100.
Today we had a Pop Quiz over how to tell time, as this was the subject that was introduced last week by the sub, Hr. Bauer. Adding onto the time unit, we learned today also about the 24-hr clock used for official schedules and public transportation across Europe, as well as how to use the phrases "halb (vor/nach)" and "viertel (vor/nach)" (half to/after, quarter to/after).
The quiz went well, and I was pleased how much they had learned the previous week.
Then we had a roleplay break. Set into pairs, one student playing a boss, the other an employee, they made dialogues about why the employee was late to work, e.g. "Die Polizei folgten mir nach, denn ich war zu Schnell unterwegs, dann kommt der Dinosaur..."
Our activity to follow-up was to learn the vocabulary for school subjects (p.35 of the textbook) and then make our own school schedules accordingly, e.g. "Um 10 Uhr lernen wir Mathematik..."
Post-lunch, we re-introduced the idea of St. Martin's day, going over the legend of St. Martin of Tours. Just in time for the parade that yearly comes by, all the other classes going around with lanterns, singing the "Laterne, Laterne..." song, our class laid in wait. As has become a tradition of the 5. Klasse in recent years, we made goose puppets. We waited until the parade went by, then hopped out of the classroom right behind the group and followed along, honking our little hearts out like good geese.
Then we had singing practice, and that was the day.
Now as was promised/warned each class period for the last month, the day will finally come NEXT WEEK that we have a quiz over our Hörverständnis vocabulary, taking selections from the vocab banks of all our previously-done song exercises.
Here is what will be on the quiz:
The verbs: brennen, kommen, haben, sehen, stehlen
The words: der Gruß, das Lied, der Balloon, der Krieg, das Kind/die Kinder, der Freund, die Freundin
die Zeit, die Leute, die Macht, das Jahr, das Fernsehen, Deshalb, Nie/Niemals, das Herz
So long as they know these words in both languages, that will be sufficient.
Mit Vergnügen!
As you may have noticed, I was not present last week. While there was homework, if your child was not present in class and as such did not get the assignment, there will be no penalty. Those who did the homework will be given a 100.
Today we had a Pop Quiz over how to tell time, as this was the subject that was introduced last week by the sub, Hr. Bauer. Adding onto the time unit, we learned today also about the 24-hr clock used for official schedules and public transportation across Europe, as well as how to use the phrases "halb (vor/nach)" and "viertel (vor/nach)" (half to/after, quarter to/after).
The quiz went well, and I was pleased how much they had learned the previous week.
Then we had a roleplay break. Set into pairs, one student playing a boss, the other an employee, they made dialogues about why the employee was late to work, e.g. "Die Polizei folgten mir nach, denn ich war zu Schnell unterwegs, dann kommt der Dinosaur..."
Our activity to follow-up was to learn the vocabulary for school subjects (p.35 of the textbook) and then make our own school schedules accordingly, e.g. "Um 10 Uhr lernen wir Mathematik..."
Post-lunch, we re-introduced the idea of St. Martin's day, going over the legend of St. Martin of Tours. Just in time for the parade that yearly comes by, all the other classes going around with lanterns, singing the "Laterne, Laterne..." song, our class laid in wait. As has become a tradition of the 5. Klasse in recent years, we made goose puppets. We waited until the parade went by, then hopped out of the classroom right behind the group and followed along, honking our little hearts out like good geese.
Then we had singing practice, and that was the day.
Now as was promised/warned each class period for the last month, the day will finally come NEXT WEEK that we have a quiz over our Hörverständnis vocabulary, taking selections from the vocab banks of all our previously-done song exercises.
Here is what will be on the quiz:
The verbs: brennen, kommen, haben, sehen, stehlen
The words: der Gruß, das Lied, der Balloon, der Krieg, das Kind/die Kinder, der Freund, die Freundin
die Zeit, die Leute, die Macht, das Jahr, das Fernsehen, Deshalb, Nie/Niemals, das Herz
So long as they know these words in both languages, that will be sufficient.
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