GERMAN DATES DAYS MONTHS SEASONS CHALLENGE CARDS

GERMAN DATES DAYS MONTHS SEASONS These 36 German Dates, Days, Months & Seasons Challenge Cards are perfect for advanced beginner ready to move into beginner intermediate learners of German, and really do help to create a lively language learning environment. Students can develop, embed, reinforce and refresh their knowledge of this essential German vocabulary in a cooperative, communicative and interactive way, independently of the teacher. They have a bonus multi-skill focus on listening, speaking, pronunciation, reading and spelling. They’re great for helping students familiarize themselves with, and develop competence in, speaking, reading, writing and spelling in German in general, with grammatical concepts such as adjectival endings, definite and indefinite articles in the nominative, accusative, genitive and dative and word order, and certainly in German dates, days, months and seasons in particular. The cards are useful not only when you’re focusing on this particular vocabulary area, but also as an all-year-round starter, plenary and general ‘pick-me-up’ activity, as the goal is not simply to learn how these words and phrases in German, but also to enjoy working with German, and to feel confident about doing so. The questions are entirely in German, with some translation questions both from German into English, and English into German. It’s important to help students understand as soon as possible that translation does not mean simply exchanging word for word, and that languages do work in different ways to express the same things. Generally, the questions all range in complexity and challenge, and some call upon prior knowledge too, helping students make links and build bridges in their learning. There may be some words students are not familiar with - these questions give them the opportunity to learn and apply new language too. Certainly, core language is repeated throughout in slightly different contexts to support and progress learning. The question card template enables students to apply their knowledge of language creatively and practically too - my students really enjoy creating questions for each other!

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