Today we started off by playing a game that the children had prepared themselves. Two weeks ago, you may recall we spent class time divided into group with the assignment of making new games for the class. So, first thing today we were finally able to try them out. We played "Wer bin ich?," where the children wrote beforehand 5 sentences each, describing themselves. We then sat in a circle with one child in the center as all the others read out sentences from one person's sheet. The person in the center then had to guess whom it was describing.
From there, we went into our hörverständnis exercise, "Mein Fahrrad" from Die Prinzen, all about one person's absolutely insane love of his bicycle, which provided the perfect segue into today's topic: accusative prepositions.
I was rather surprised that the kids did not know what prepositions were, so after a short explanation, we covered some basic accusative preposition-article combinations (as shown on page 69 of the textbook). The catchphrase we used, which is what I learned back when I learned this topic, was "accusative = movative." Silly, I know, but the point being that, with these prepositions (and with most cases in German), moving toward a place takes the accusative case.
In den
Ins
In die
Auf die
Auf den
Aufs
The lesson was followed up with some partner work out of the workbook (page 72).
After lunch, the class was down to 2 students. I'm sensing a pattern here.
We went over negation (nicht, nichts, nie, niemals, niemand, kein) and learned a new phrase: "doch." This introduced us to a VERY German idea: ARGUING.
Which brings us to today's homework:
10 lines of dialogue:
An argument between two people over one of the following topics:
- Katze oder Hunde?
- Vanilla oder Schockolade Eis?
- Hamburgers oder Hotdogs?
- Nintendo Wii oder PS3?
- Deutsch oder Spanisch lernen?
Mit Vergnügen.
