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Class 06 November 2025

job cards verb cards HOMEWORK The homework due on November 06 is INTENSIVTRAINER  page 49, exercises 1a, 1b, 1c page 50, exercise 2 ALSO highly recommend you listen to the mp3 I'm sending you by email. We'll listen to it again in class to complete exercise 1b on p116 of Kursbuch.  LEHRPLAN 1. Review homework. 2. Vocab review game (anything from the song , the handout ,  p116 Kursbuch, or Deutschtrainer is fair game!) 3. Guessing game. Using the following questions, you'll guess what your partner's job is. WO ARBEITEST DU? WAS MACHST DU? (IN DEINEM BERUF) WIE VIEL VERDIENST DU? MAGST DU DEINEN BERUF? WARUM? WARUM NICHT? 4. Listening. Kursbuch p116 1b. We'll listen to the radio show and crank out this exercise.  BREAK 5. SONG! die ärzte - "Junge" 6. Kursbuch p118 3a 3b We're looking at putting verbs in the past tense. Specifically the following verbs: lernen - learn reden - talk machen - do/make planen - plan holen - get, obtain schmecken - taste arbeit...

Class 23 October 2025 - Chapter 10 Part A

 Chapter 10 is all about professions. The book doesn't have a neat list of all the vocabulary for the chapter, so I'd recommend taking a look at the vocabulary list on the DEUTSCHTRAINER page. DEUTSCHTRAINER #11 - work and professions     Here's some pictures of some professions we'll also be talking about Here's an article about a moose that we'll read Here's a song that we're going to listen to.

Class - Thurs 02 Oct 2025 - Ch. 9

VOCAB REVIEW We'll start by playing some charades to review vocabulary from last week. We'll focus on the rooms and the furnishings of page 100 and 101 of the Kursbuch. We'll then play an online quiz game (Kahoot) ACCUSATIVE PAST TENSE "STELLEN" We'll revisit Carla and Alex on page 103 of Kursbuch and practice putting the verbs in the past tense. Alex schreit "WARUM IST DER COMPUTER NICHT IM ARBEITSZIMMER? WO IST DER COMPUTER?" ,,Carlo hat den Computer in die Küche gestellt !" SONG We'll review two-case prepositions with t his song an, auf, hinter, in, neben, über, unter, vor, zwischen PREPOSITIONS ACTIVITY We'll work in pairs and describe the picture on page 104 of the Kursbuch. We'll use all those prepositions we just learned. AUDIO We will listen to the audio about the house party, 7a on page 105 Kursbuch.  ROLEPLAY - Das gefällt mir nicht, das mag ich nicht, das finde ich doof. Working in pairs, one person is the host, one is th...

Class - Thurs 25 Sep 2025 - Ch. 9

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 VOCABULARY These are the same links as last week. You should be familiar with most of the words and sentences in these links. Apartment Furnishings/Furniture You can find some more vocabulary on pages 100 + 101 of your Netzwerk Neu Kursbuch. It's this page. In addition, we will be using some vocabulary cards.  You can find the link here . We will begin class with a few vocab review games (think pictionary, memory, etc.) ACTIVITY - DATIVE + ACCUSATIVE We will be practicing the use of the accusative and dative case with verbs. #1: We will do the listening exercise 4a (page 103 Kursbuch).  #2: We will do a review of the exercise by stating where the objects are using the DATIVE. #3: We will work in pairs and set up our own apartment using the vocabulary cards from the vocabulary review. First you'll set up a nice apartment. Then you'll make a terrible apartment where nothing makes sense. SONG We'll then listen to the song from last week that highlighted different locatio...

Class Thurs 18 September 2025 - Chapter 9

Vocabulary Trainer - Apartment Vocabulary Trainer - House Furnishings Vocabulary Trainer - Colors News Article:  "Current-ish" Event - Broken Elevator in Leipzig Video: -  Nicos Weg A1 - Episode 26 "Meine Wohnung" Song - Wohin gehst du?   Interactive Video  Simons Katze und die Fliege