Sometimes everything just comes together! I've blogged about my love of Easy German videos and also how useful EDPuzzle can be for teachers.
Put them together, add a good worksheet to go along with the video, and you've got a great lesson to teach possessive pronouns (my, your, his, her, etc) in German 1 or to review them in German 2 or 3. Enjoy!
A tool I find really useful is Edpuzzle. I've blogged about it before, and I really like it for cutting and adding questions to online videos.
This video is the first 3 minutes of a new Easy German video filmed in Dresden. The whole video is pretty good but probably a bit long for students' attention spans. There is also the word "Scheiße" and some consumption of alcoholic beverages (by adults) later in the video, so it may not be something you want to show in your classes, depending on your school's policies and the maturity of your students.
However, the first three minutes show some beautiful sights in Dresden and provide great opportunities to use weather, clothing, and travel vocabulary, which are all German 2 topics in the district where I most recently taught.
I made a one page worksheet to go along with my video. Click on this link if you'd like a copy.
Ok, I'm cheating a little here since Easy German has been a favorite resource of mine for some time, so it's not new to 2022. I've blogged about it quite a bit. But it continues to be great and keep getting better, so it continues to deserve mention.
Recently they posted a video about Relativsätze, relative clauses. This is a topic my German 3 students often found confusing, and the video explains it very well.
I made some guided notes to go along with the video.
It's been a verylong time since I last blogged, and much has changed since my last post.
I was inspired to write again by a video from Easy German with cheesey jokes which might be useful to other German teachers, so I'll post about that and save updates for another day (maybe).
Warning to K-12 public school teachers: this video has two or three words that would be inappropriate in most schools, so be sure to preview it before watching with your students and/or show only clips.
In spite of a few bathroom language moments, this is a sweet video, especially since Janusz is Manuel's dad. I could imagine asking students to memorize and present one of the jokes as a short speaking assignment or extra credit opportunity.
My personal favorite is at 11:33 and uses the verb werden, which I've generally taught in 2nd year.
It's a pretty easy joke to understand in terms of language level, and what I like about it most is the way it contains both uses of werden:
As a helping verb to form the future tense - Wir werden sehen. We will see.
As its own verb meaning to become - Wir werden Seen. We're becoming lakes.
Ist das nicht fabelhaft? Thanks, Easy German team. Ach, I love teaching German!
Update: I've updated my guided notes to include the joke video
and made a Google Slides presentation for the lesson.
I'm happy to share - just leave me a comment, and I'll send you a copy!
