Teaching Comprehensibly

Use this Wordoku to practice vocabulary for hobbies in German. It includes the words Musik hören, Filme ansehen, Fusßball, Videospiele, tanzen, ins Disko gehen, Klavier, schwimmen, and lesen. It would be ideal in a unit about activities (such as Kapitel 3 in Deutsch Aktuell), or it could be used independently for students who finish their work quickly and need an extra challenge. Not familiar with Wordoku?: Wordoku is Sudoku with words. Each square must contain all nine words, each used only o

After his highly successful "El mismo sol" in 2015, Álvaro Soler is back with his new song Sofía Sofía is a good song for targeting direct and indirect object pronouns, for contrasting the preterite and imperfect tenses, and for any unit based around either Spain or Cuba. Included in this purchase are: - A lesson plan for teaching the song. - A lyrics sheet that includes a CLOZE activity, a biography of Álvaro Soler with an authentic and comprehensible quote by him about the song, and a make-b

"Bist du real?" is the perfect way to introduce German I students to popular German music because it is highly repetitious and includes many high-frequency structures. In particular, this song includes numerous contrasts of ich and du conjugations in the present tense. It would be a good song to do while targeting the conjugations of sein since du bist is included 37 times! Included in this purchase are: - A lesson plan for teaching the song. - A lyrics sheet that includes a CLOZE activity, a

The song "Eisberg" by Andreas Bourani is a great addition to any units including dative pronouns, 2-way prepositions, or the AP German theme of "Personal and public identities." It is also a good way to review some accusative and dative prepositions. Included in this purchase are: - A lesson plan for teaching the song. - A lyrics sheet that includes a CLOZE activity, a biography of Andreas Bourani, and an exercise targeting the prepositions found in the song. - A teacher's copy with the correc