I introduced weather vocabulary to my German 2 students this week.
In the second lesson of the unit I introduced students to circumlocution with a group brainstorming activity: each table group got 3 or 4 small cards with a German vocabulary word on one side of each card. Their job was to brainstorm as many German clues to that word that would help a classmate guess that word.
Some words were easy - for "trocken," students quickly came up with "das Gegenteil von nass."
Others required more work - for "der Herbst," students came up with "eine Jahreszeit" and "kühl," but to differentiate between fall and spring, they added "September, Oktober, und November."
Eventually, all of the groups has some kind of clue for each word. Then, one person from each group gathered all the cards and rotated to the next table. He or she then quizzed the students at the next table, using the clues the students had generated.
I like this activity because it really pushes students to use the vocabulary they have and it feels like a game. If we have time, I usually have the students rotate to more tables, though on this day we didn't get to that.
At the end of the activity, I collected the cards and used the students' definitions to make a Kahoot for them to play next class: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/6055f543-72c4-4ee6-a8f2-0e362bc44ed1
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