HS German Guide

57. tell what happens at a particular kind of event (birthday party, sports event) 58. tell how to do something (ex. play a game, make food, solve a math problem) 59. give simple directions to a location 60. tell about something learned at school or in the community

SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION Skill Building

● Use a variety of visuals to defne meaning of words and phrases (ie. pictures of people greeting one another, etc.). ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate vocabulary, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & vocabulary. ● Use Total Physical Response to review new vocabulary ● Pair with partners to practice conversation/group students to allow opportunity for them to practice speaking. Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts. ● Model conversation and sentence frames. ● Listen to videos of friends meeting for the frst time. ● Engage the student in more student-teacher conversation in German aside from regularly planned activities or group the student with other advanced learners who are ready for more challenging dialogue. Provide opportunities for more conversation with fuent speakers via Zoom or Google Meet. ● Interview or survey other students about a chosen topic in German, then present your fndings to the class. ● Students look at a picture of a school in a German-speaking country and ask students to write as many sentences in German as they can to compare it to their own school. ● Provide more complex text in German for students to read. ● Students can build and categorize word lists (synonyms, antonyms, etc.) ● Have students record themselves speaking the language and refect on their progress. ● Students can practice translating from English to German in speech or writing. ● Give the students a story/cartoon topic. Provide them with as much or as little information as you’d like (maybe the main character and a few compulsory events). Then, have students write and illustrate the story and present it verbally to the class.

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