It was a good week in German 2. Students had their first unit test on Wednesday, so Monday was dedicated to review.
We played Kahoot with holidays and their German descriptions.
Then, I pulled out 4 in a Row to give students some drill on changing sentences from present tense to conversational past and from conversational past to present. They really needed this practice, and most students really enjoyed it.
It finally occurred to me to laminate the 4 in a Row boards so that they can be reused. Better late than never!
The test was on Wednesday. We've moved all of our quizzes and tests to Canvas, and one thing that became clear very quickly is that my students can be very sloppy. They had to change sentences from present tense to conversational past and from conversational past to present tense. This required them to type the new sentence, and Canvas graded this automatically. I can't even count the number of students who missed those questions because they misspelled a word that was in the original sentence or because they forgot a period or question mark. I can go back and give students partial credit, which I did, but I still took off half a point for these kinds of unnecessary mistakes. It may be a painful lesson at first, but there's no reason to misspell a word that is right in front of you or not to punctuate a sentence in high school.
Which brings us to Friday. We started our new unit on clothing with a review of colors and coloring. Life is good when it's Friday and you get to color in German class. (We also had a pep rally mid-day, so this really helped everyone to settle down after that.)
We used this activity to introduce adjective endings.
And then it was time for Das doofe Fischlied:
We first reviewed definite and indefinite articles in the nominative, accusative, and dative cases and recorded them on our German Grammar reference cards.
Then, we watched this subtitled version of the song and listened for the adjective endings.
Coloring and adjective endings - pretty good for a Friday in German 2.
If you'd like a copy, the Kleidung worksheet is here. It was modified from a worksheet at Grundschul Atelier: https://www.grundschulatelier.de/kostenlose-arbeitsblaetter/DaF-Arbeitsblatt-Kleidung.pdf
I was wondering if you could share a copy of your Kleidung worksheet in this entry. I really appreciate your work. It is sooo helpful to me and great quality!
ReplyDeleteHi Amy, Thanks for your comment! It's great to know my blog is helpful to others. I'll add the file to the end of the post.
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