German Level 1, Activity 12: Familienstammbaum / Family Trees (Face to Face)
(View Complete Item Description)Students practice using their family-related vocabulary to build each other’s family trees.
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Students practice using their family-related vocabulary to build each other’s family trees.
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Students discuss clothing and play a Guess Who Game using clothing items for identification.
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In this activity, students will practice talking about travel and where they would like to visit. Students will pretend to be another person and respond to questions about travel as if they were that person.
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Students must try to formulate questions related to the topics on the bingo card. This is to help the students get to know each other in their target language.
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Students will discuss and answer questions about their current living situations, as well as what their living expenses look like.
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Students will play a game listing as many vocabulary words as they can that are related to a certain topic.
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Students will practice exchanging opinions on certain topics related to social media and technology.
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Students will practice coming up with their own news stories using pictures and headlines provided.
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Students will work on their interpretive skills by listening to a news story and explaining what they thought happened. They will later present their findings to the whole class
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Students will practice listening to German song lyrics for understanding and will ask and answer questions about different artists.
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Students discuss German Christmas traditions and the differences between a traditional U.S. Christmas and a German Christmas
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Learning about and discusing U.S. school systems and German school systems.
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Students will plan a trip to a movie in Vienna, using the computer to plan the travel, figure out how to purchase their tickets, discuss favorite movies and actors/actresses, and figure out what snacks to have at the movie.
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Students talk about their ideas on science fiction and learn about a German TV program and new sci-fi inventions.
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Students will go learn more about how conversation activities will be facilitated and introduce themselves to one another. If there is enough time the students will strengthen their knowledge of the German alphabet by playing Hangman.
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Students will have a “Meet and Greet” party where they will pretend to be the person on their card, such as Heidi Klum. They will introduce themselves and greet other people, taking into account the times of the day and their feelings review the different greetings.
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In the Warm-Up students will view a slide with works from German artists. They are going to describe the art with old and new adjectives. There is a clue about art in the warm-up word slide, Deutsche Adjektive. (it is written in the colors of the rainbow and then the three primary colors) They students then put these new and old adjectives to use as they digitally search museums in Berlin, hunting for art that depicts certain adjectives. Finally, in the end have students share about other German art types they enjoy – music, architecture, design…
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Students will work within a budget to find pieces of furniture to decorate their dorm room.
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Students will review new vocabulary words by identifying the ingredients of a meal.
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Students will practice telling about their hobbies, their personal interests, and their free time activities.
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