Our 6/7s have been interviewing each other! Firstly, a pair was given a set of question and answer cards, which they had to sort so that they made sense. Then they started asking each other the questions and recording answers. Finally, they changed the case and wrote a short summary of their partner’s answers using er/sie. A brilliant effort by all students!
Last week in German the Year 6/7 students did a quiz. Some of us found the quiz quite challenging! Here are the questions – do you know many of the answers?
1. How many countries touch Germany?
2. Name the countries that touch Germany.
3. Germany touches the sea at one point. Is it in the north, east, south or west?
4. Spell ‘Germany’ in German.
5. Which currency does Germany use?
6. Australia’s population is about 23 million people. What is Germany’s population?
7. Approximately how many times can Germany fit inside of Australia?
8. Which continent is Germany on?
9. Name three traditional German foods.
10. What is the capital of Germany?
After the quiz we tried to put a puzzle of Europe back together – making sure we didn’t lose little Luxemburg! We then labelled the countries in both English and Germany.
The Year 6/7s have been exploring Germany and its place in the world. We now know that Germany touches 9 (NINE!) other countries. We also learnt that in the European Union, or the EU, cars have licence plates that tell us which country they are from. Can you work out where each of these licence plates come from? And why does one NOT have the EU symbol (the yellow ring of stars on a blue background)?
In German this term the Year 3-7 students have been learning and revising how to count in German! We like that counting in German is full of patterns and that once we have that pattern, we can put any number together. We have these colourful displays in our room to remind us of our rules (and exceptions to the rules..!) We are becoming very confident with our numbers up to 100.
Year 6/7 students actively engaged in varied activities focusing on oral language recognition and pronunciation during the creation of their Wer bin Ich posters.
Can you read and work out who the author is?
WER BIN ICH? Who am I?
The Year 6/7 s students have completed a unit of work titled Wer bin Ich? (Who am I?). The task was to construct a self-profile including a description of their physical characteristics and information about family, interests, hobbies, past times as well as some of their ‘favourites’. These were published on their silhouettes and titled ‘Wer bin Ich?’ (Who am I?)
As a lead up students participated in activities aimed to develop the necessary vocabulary as well as activities to build their skills and confidence in oral speaking. Students conducted surveys in German, played Leute Bingo and took part in interactive circle activities.
Students then worked in small groups and read aloud other student’s profiles with the aim of guessing the author.
In German we have been learning how to ask and answer a variety of simple questions. Questions we have learnt about include:
Wie heiBt du?
Wie alt bist du?
Wo wohnst du?
Welche Klasse hast du?
Hast du einen Bruder oder eine Schwester?
Wie heiBt deine Schule?
Once we had learnt how to ask and answer these questions we started writing a letter to a penpal. Most of our penpals were children in another class in our school.
We were very impressed that by the end of our unit we were able to write an entire letter in German and read the letter we received back.
To show our appreciation to our penpal we then completed ‘danke’ notes. The ‘danke’ notes told our penpal what we think they did really well.
Here are some examples of our finished letter and danke notes.
Here is the first of many final products of the podcast, ‘There was an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly’ created by our Year 6/7 students.
This podcast was created by a group from Mr. Stevens class and was completely produced by the students. Garageband and Microsoft Word were the only programs used.
Leave a comment to tell us what you think!
Herr Stevens Group 1 from Carly Smith on Vimeo.
The Year 6/7 classes have been working hard on completing their ‘There was an Old Woman who Swallowed a Fly’ podcasts. Most groups have now completed recording their dialogue and are in the process of adding images to Garageband to help tell the story.
There has been a large focus on collaboration during this task. Students have been supporting each other in all aspects of this project, from technical issues to pronunciation.
Here are some more photos of the students at work!
Editing using Garageband
Puppets to tell the story
Supportive teamwork
Recording dialogue in the sunshine
The Snowball in action
Check back soon to see the finished products!
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This term our year 6/7 students are working in collaborative groups to produce a podcast telling the story of ‘There Was An Old Woman (Who Swallowed a Fly) – in German!
So far the students have formed groups, allocated roles and planned how they will be creating visuals to help tell the story. We have also run through the script several times, focussing carefully on both pronunciation and expression.
We are going to be creating the podcast using Garageband. Here are some photos of the early planning phase:
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